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by virtue of being an old cunt I can recall, although faintly, wynn davies, pop robson, tony green. these were players I think I remember more so because they were me old man's heroes and although I'd been getting towed along to matches from the late '60s I don't really think I 'got it' till I'd started senior school and was getting the bus in to town with me mates and standing on the leazes end. this coincided with the signing of malcolm macdonald. I idolised the bloke, I fucking loved the songs about him, I loved watching him, I loved bouncing about the terrace in me size 6 dr martens when he scored a goal was devastating when he was sold to arsenal. so later in the 80s I was lucky to watch waddle, beardsley, gascoigne and later still andy cole, les ferdinand and be present to see the vast, vast majority of shearer's goals hit the back of the net,. but there's not one of them can live with keegan in my eyes. he got this this club, the city and the supporters in a way that even the local lads above don't in my opinion. keegan is a fucking newcastle legend and I don't expect him ever to be beaten so as the greatest in my lifetime. love the bloke.

🎶 “Rhythm is a dancer Brazilians are the answer You can see them everywhere Big Joe in the middle Bruno on the dribble Bringing that Brazilian flair” 🎶

They've just been twatted 6-0 by Bolton Wanderers and lost at home to bottom of the league, Doncaster, all in yet another 3rd division campaign, but it's not all bad news down the road...... Someone mentioned them during a televised game so STICK THAT IN YOUR PIPE, KEITH!!

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NUFC submitted plans for a 55k seater stadium on the Town Moor in 1995….we were struggling to get 20k 3 years earlier. He just instinctively knew the potential of the club. You’re absolutely spot on, without him knowing & recognising our potential then acting on it in the most decisive way imaginable we wouldn’t have been anywhere near the club capable of attracting the richest people on earth (poison chalice though it is) Man City were attractive via osmosis from those arseholes in Salford; not that they’d admit it, Chelsea was just location location location…..Keegan landed us the prize, such as it is, 30 years ago….

at the risk of getting all maudlin here, saint james' park is and always will be (despite the efforts of the fat cunt who owned us and who knows even our new owners in the future) precisely that. likewise the leazes and the gallowgate will never be anything else. for us, we saw the old stand become the west stand and then the milburn and that's all good. similarly, the popular side became the new stand and later just simply the east stand. I would be delighted if it became the keegan stand me, it's the least the bloke deserves for dragging this club from the brink of the third division to playing quite comfortably the most exciting football I've ever seen within a few years. he was the catalyst for transforming the ground, world record signings and I don't doubt for a second the foundations he laid in the '90s are the reason we could be about to start a new prosperous future. fuck knows where we'd be now if he hadn't of rocked up again 30 years ago.

Egypt go for their record 8th African title today and as I've not got a podcast or a YouTube channel, I'm going to inflict my final thoughts on their campaign and on this year's AFCON in general on all of you poor suckers. Whisper it quietly but this year's African Cup was a particularly poor spectacle. Expanding the size of the tournament from 16 teams to 24 enabled a lot of what we'll politely call "also-rans" to get in, and despite the intrigue of having several newcomers compete, the group stages were drab and mostly boring. Very few games saw more than one goal, and soul-sapping humidity made the final 20 minutes of matches into a slogfest of tired legs repeatedly surrendering and regaining possession to no purpose. Next we'll get into the dubious structural decisions made by CAN and by Cameroon, starting with the decision to prohibit any postponements for any reason. I understand how difficult it is to postpone games during a knockout tournament, so the decision to expand squads to 28 players was an intelligent one, but forcing Comoros to play without a keeper during the round of 16 was particularly harsh and a bit of an embarrassment. One might argue that Comoros should've brought a fourth-string keeper as many teams such as Senegal and Egypt did, but we're already talking about a nation of less than a million people. Then there was the questionable decision to host group stage matches in a region plagued by separatist activity (luckily nothing went wrong) and of course the disastrous Olembe stampede. Moving past the tournament itself and on to Egypt's campaign, it was as soul-crushingly dull as any of the football we've played in the last decade. Hot off being the worst team at the 2018 World Cup and a truly calamitous round of 16 exit in Cairo in 2019, it seemed there were no further depths to slip to, although our first match against Nigeria forecasted nothing but further pain to come, and we were very close to elimination against Guinea-Bissau when their equalising goal was very softly ruled out by VAR. It's not a surprise. The weaknesses in our squad are plain for all to see. All but six of our squad members play their football in the Egyptian league, which is among the strongest leagues in Africa, but is no match even for second division European leagues. Most of our Francophone rivals were fully stocked with European-based players with much more experience at a higher level. The entire plan, as always since his emergence, seemed to be to get the ball to Salah and wait for him to perform miracles. But you just have to look at the mediocre players we've surrounded him with to see why that plan never bears fruit. Mostafa Mohamed has seemed incapable of getting a shot on target, while Mohamed Sharif does not even know what formation we're playing. All of our play comes down the wings, with either Salah or the ineffective Marmoush relied upon to get balls into the box. It's no surprise then that we have scored just 4 goals in the entire tournament. But for whatever reason, Quieroz sees fit to continue with Marmoush down the left wing when he has Trezeguet, a proven Premier League player, at his disposal. I would be remiss now if I didn't mention that we have conceded only two goals total, with one of them a penalty early on against Morocco. One benefit of our overly defensive play is that our goal is rarely threatened, which is just as well because our keepers have been at the wars. #1 El Shenaawy succumbed to injury during the round of 16, with his replacement Abou Gabal "Gabaski" having featured just once for Egypt in a 15-year career. Gabaski himself then had to be substituted against Morocco, meaning our third-choice keeper Mohamed Sobhy had to come on for the greater portion of extra-time, and although Gabaski recovered in time to start against Cameroon he was visibly struggling with injury toward the end of the match, making his remarkable performance during the penalty shootout all the more incredible. It remains to be seen whether Quieroz will now rush back El Shenaawy, persist with Gabaski who has played heroically but is clearly not fully fit, or turn to our untested 3rd and 4th keepers. We now come up against a star-studded Senegal side who have scored 9 goals while conceding just 2. They can boast Chelsea, Liverpool, PSG, and Bayern among the clubs their starters play for (not to mention Palace, Leicester, and Napoli) and have the best keeper in Africa in their ranks, meaning our strategy of boring the opposition into submission then beating them on penalties with our superior keepers is not going to have the same effect as in earlier rounds. That's not even bringing up the fact that Egypt have played extra time in our last three matches, while Senegal have hardly been troubled on their path to the final. I'm no master tactician, but I'd say our best chance of winning this match is in 90 minutes, and that we'll have to present more of a threat going forward from BOTH flanks if we hope to see anything other than Salah being marked out of the game and a dire 0-2 or 0-3 loss. Therefore I would swap Marmoush for Trezeguet and start the match with Zizo in CM in order to freshen up a tired lineup, and try to play an attacking game with Elneny sitting in front of the back four and spraying long balls out to Salah and Trezeguet.

He’s about 5ft. Like a haunted child.

could you get me his autograph please?

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The St Winnebago's school choir I've run out now

Tuesday night is gonna be fucking stressful. We're all gonna have to keep a close eye on Gloom and wykiki, they're gonna be perimenopausal.

Camper Van Beethoven, shirley???

Caravan Halen

I’m creased at this like. Fucking vibes. Getting absolutely blasted with wind on the least picturesque dock you could ever see. #bellend #mackemcunt #getafuckingwashyoupedo

Fuck it I'll humour you. Headstock carve looks a bit off and there's a zero-fret. Looks a bit fake but would need to see a bit more of the body to say for sure.

I thought it was time I contributed to this thread so if you lads with the expertise could give me some advice that would be greatly appreciated. I'm think this guitar is a Gibson but not sure exactly what type? Any ideas?

Been shit for years, Poundland is probably the most useful shop there! I did some casual work in a "pound" shop in the US way back in 90s before they were heard of here. Actually it was the 88 cent store, which was undercutting the more established 99 cent store. Both sold the same Chinese made shit. However, sales tax was prepaid in the 99 shop but added after the sale in our shop, making the purchase the same price and pissing off the customers at the same time. US entrepreneurship at it's best. Genius.

This kid?

Need to run out to this instead of knopfler's dirge......

Don't know why, but this reminds me of lad who used to be in our drinking group who'd get called Donald Fisher* by a few lads as he looked like a younger version with the same hairstyle and he fucking hated it and was the type of kid who bit like fuck at anything, I used to love playing football against him as he was basically shit but would try to be like Stuart Pearce but you could turn him inside out and laugh at him while he tried to clear you out. * I know he's from home and away but it's still an Aussie soap from the same era so suck it up

Thought this was the opening scene of a z-grade zombie apocalypse film.

she’s no Denise Welsch

Thermite. That’s what you’ll need to clean your computer now.

he’s a right cock aye. That documentary they did while he was Liverpool manager is fucking brilliant purely because he comes off so badly. Had a massive mural or painting of his own face directly across from his front door iirc.

It is hilarious that when our fan base decided to start doing the flag thing at games, their fan base suddenly started to try and do it. Not saying our lot created doing flags at games but fucking hell the old ‘plastic Geordies’ moniker really was spot on about them.

Probably apocryphal but there was a story doing the rounds that when Newcastle Polytechnic was rebranded as Northumbria University the original intention was to call it The City University of Newcastle upon Tyne

Are Bruno, Burn and Targett related?

Can recommend TOT training if you want to bulk up. You heard it here first

I’m not kink shaming, but… did you at least wipe your seat clean?

Fat Mike is seething.

Probably studied philosophy at Uni.

I used to have good neighbours but they moved out and now there’s a cunt there. Their mail, which I rifle through regularly, says “Dr Cunt” but they are no medical doctor. Guessing a PHD in being a cunt.

Housemartins - caravan of love #campingmusic

I've stuck it in my shitpipe, now not sure how to smoke it. Further instruction required.

Was he not at West Ham the year they went down with about 4 future England regulars? Or had he moved to Chelsea before that? ”He’s never had relegation battling experience” is the kind of argument knackers in the press make when they’re touting Allardyce for jobs btw

Why would they sign a player called Bath. A bath in Sunderland was never going to work.

FROM THE MAN THAT COULDN'T HACK IT IN THE NUMBERS WORLD.

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Terence tent Darby

Pleasuring passing sailors for a swig of white lightning no doubt. #bamplife #russiansailorjizzstilltastesbetterthanrichenergy #arrestedforsoliciting

Just in case anyone is having trouble following who is being referenced here, I’ve done a handy guide here

Imagine Denise Squelch and Doris in some hot girl on girl action though.? Rrrrrr. Oh Mama.

It's a pity this didn't get to Italy when I first visited it. 2000 lira shop not quite got the ring to it?

Just been to a kids’ party at Inflatanation at North Shields. I haven’t been to Royal Quays for years. Fuck me, I’m not saying the place is run down but they’ve got a Poundland Outlet

#depressing #neejob #wolfjerky

A setup and a restring of the Les Paul today. I can never get my head around how beautifully they age. Looking at the rosewood board I can forgive myself of my hatred of modern alternatives. The pickups are Bareknuckle Pg blues, modelled on Peter Greens 59 LP