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HAHAHA...ok, i reckon the nerves are kicking in now !!! I'd love to know where your confidence comes from. Even when we've been by far the better side there's always the nagging doubt that anything can happen in football, especially a derby. If this is what you lot are like now, fuck knows what you would have been like had you have been as good as we were under KK/SBR when we played Crosby's/Butcher's/McCarthy's half wits. 3-1 home win and we'll send you home to think again.

THANK GOD !!!! ...theres me thinking you had a waiting list of 500,000 people, just for season tickets !!!! Don't be daft, man. It's the applications to Newcastle city council from people wishing to swap their council house from Wearside.

Was talking about old derby games last night at work and between four of us there was a boat load of tales, funny, but none of them involved the 'banning of away fans for saftey reasons' that Talkshite mentioned, fucking hell, man.

All the best, LM.

9th, eh? Away fans were once banned for saftey reasons, eh? That it, like? You just know a young dozy cockney who works behind the scenes desperately waiting for his chance to get on the mic was given a quick job to write about derbies he has absolutely fucking no idea about.

We went mental when the fifth went in, I'm sure John Anderson missed a penalty in this game as well, (don't know if Quinny went off injured?).

Reet mate was a tad childish .....ANYHOO Hello, as a proud geordie who has followed Newcastle United since they were founded in 1993, I feel I must object to the continual mispronunciation of the name of our ground, sportsdirect.com@st.james parkstadium, by your broadcast journalists. This is an exciting new era in the glorious 17-year history of our club, but constantly referring to our ground by its previous name associates the club with a period of time we are frankly trying to get away from, and undermines the good work done by Chris Hughton, Mike Ashley, and especially the 'founding fathers of Newcastle', Mr. Tony Jimenez and Mr. Jeff Vetere. Additionally, everyone knows that the name 'St. James Park' is most closely associated in English Premierball with Exeter City, and the new name is part of a concerted effort on the part of Newcastle Utd to finally step out of their shadow. With your help, I know we'll get there. Yours, Frankenstein Trevor Millivanilli Dee-ah SKY, Ah kner that Sheera werks for Match of the day so thats why the Maggies are alwas on more than us, but why do SKY alwas put lerds more Maggie games on than they put owas on? theya just a laffing stock and wee-a are going places with super Niall in charge. If this keeps going on seesan afta seesan am not going to watch SKY anymore wen am in the pub but go to a bar with telewest on insted. yours in red and white, dick dastad

....And lived to tell the tale. What happened to Dan Air?

This isn't a lie, but my Dad went skiing in Germany when he was in the forces in the sixties and ended up in hospital with various broken bones. The only other person I can think of who went skiing is my best pal, he went with his school in the eighties and ended up in hospital with various broken bones. Geordies don't ski because we're shit at it!

Wasn't it an Irish betting firm who put an advert for who was going to be the next Rangers manager and had a photo of the Pope? To me that was just good humoured innuendo but this is just taking the piss a bit. I'd put money on the person whose idea it was being an Irish 'United' fan.

An irish skiing company advertising in the south of England put this advert out; I'm not 'outraged' as a couple of papers have said people of the North East would be, but you've got to say, there's so many tabboo's out there now for any kind of media wanting to take the piss out of some figure of fun that perhaps we are becoming a default 'fall guy' in place of the Irish, Jews, Blacks, women, gays, whoever. I also wonder if any on here have any experience in advertising and what kind of procedure you have to go through to get something approved? I'm kind of pleased there's been no official complaint to the advertising complaints as it suggests we're a bit above this type of thing but I still think it shows the negativity we as fans get compared to say Man Utd/Liverpool when it comes to being pissed off with our owner and his mates for example.

Same year as me, we were 15th in 73-74, which i counted as the year i was born as am at the end of August so the previous season had finished. It's awkward to work out what season to put!

I was born near the beginning of the 73-74 season, (September). We finished 9th in the 1st division. A Wembley final in my first year but it was "Keegan 2, Heighway 1, Liverpool 3, Newcastle none" to quote David Coleman.

There isn't one game that doesn't involve NUFC that I'd look out for at the beginning of a season. There's been games where I'll think that'll be a good game to watch but there's none I set out to watch for no reason other than it's a derby or just hyped up by SKY. When I was a teenager every Merseyside derby was shown on tv (or seemed to be), and it was never a big deal just as the North London derby meant jack shit, either. I remember Man U playing AC Milan a couple of years ago and I thought that would be a good game, also watched Spurs away to Inter more out of curiosity and it was a bit of a novelty seeing them there and a change from the usual suspects, it all depends on the circumstances at the time, I suppose. It might come as a shock to SKY that the whole of Britain, (well up here, anyway), don't wet our collective knickers and giggle all girly at the prospect of Man Utd playing Liverpool. (unless there's something else riding on it).

It's an oldie, but.......

I have that much hate going through me when it comes to newcastle united i cant even respond properly lol ..... You are just cunts !!! A superior cunt, actually. Is it cold in our shadow? must be a nice view up there !!! THIS is the very reason we enjoy every little thing that upsets the cartoon army !!!!!!!!!!!! A made up nick name. Now, tell me, what is your clubs nickname going to be for this decade? Will you get a vote sent out in your season ticket renewal pack? Regarding Stevie's band, I think it was 'fine day' by Opus III. Just to be make sure I looked on wikipedia and there wasn't a thing about them being from Sunderland, so it must have been them, like. Was these... You can hear a bit of mackem the way she says surely. Wasn't there some kids from Sunderland who had a record called, "John Ketterly is a weatherman"?

I have that much hate going through me when it comes to newcastle united i cant even respond properly lol ..... You are just cunts !!! A superior cunt, actually. Is it cold in our shadow? must be a nice view up there !!! THIS is the very reason we enjoy every little thing that upsets the cartoon army !!!!!!!!!!!! A made up nick name. Now, tell me, what is your clubs nickname going to be for this decade? Will you get a vote sent out in your season ticket renewal pack? Regarding Stevie's band, I think it was 'fine day' by Opus III. Just to be make sure I looked on wikipedia and there wasn't a thing about them being from Sunderland, so it must have been them, like.

I renewed and like Mac toon and yourself went to the first meeting, (and a couple more which to be honest I'd say were a bit of a waste of time but for somegood craic from John Anderson), but I think the pair of you raise some very good points which anyone from the committee would have a job arguing with. It's almost like we've become too nice and middle class to kick up a fuss, 'what'll the media think of us?' has been a consideration that has got a bit out of hand if you ask me.

I have that much hate going through me when it comes to newcastle united i cant even respond properly lol ..... You are just cunts !!! A superior cunt, actually. Is it cold in our shadow?

In the interests of fairness, which as citizens of a fine city we must sometimes show, we did celebrate when we sneaked 2nd place and a CL place and they got relegated, and those weren't Juventus/Udinese fans in the Roker end when Cascarino did the business in '87.

Says it all really. Indeed If the highlight of their footballing life is a narrow home win against a side that were in fucking freefall then it cements all the opinions about them being bitter for living in our shadow. Greatest day of my footballing life was when Ned Kelly scored against Pompey back in 1992. But then i'm obsessed with Newcastle winning, not Sunderland losing. I reckon you are obsessed with the fact that we are obsessed !!! BUT YES beating newcastle means more to us than any game of football ...we are always reminded day to day that we live in your shadow (and not just footy) SO to beat you means everything to us.....EVERYTHING !!!! I understand why you hate us, but I still think it's pathetic. Now I could raise about 100 points about why mackems are up there with the most tragic people in the Western World, but I won't.....I'll only raise five. 1. Your lasses are fuckin ugly, I worked there for a few year it's not a myth you notice it every day there, it's genetic I think because the differences are incredible, some of it is diet but it's not all diet. Your lasses could all be extra's in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. I worked with the lass at "Dox-ea" she was 5ft, fat face, tiny tits, big belly much bigger than her tits, fuckin massive arse, and on dress down days she'd pull g string above her pants so every fucka could see oh dear. Plus she'd had three abortions by the age of 20, an orange fuckin face and drove a Nova. Now she for me was the face of Sunderland. 2. The mackem accent is as bad as brummie, honest question, do you think the mackem accent is easy on the ear? 3. You type in mackem accent on here, why put "tak" it's take you inbred. 4. Every fucka in Sunderland smokes, and you wonder why the mackem life expectancy is 58 or something. 5. This is the worst one of the lot. You are defined as people not by your ship building heritage, not by your shit copy of the Tyne Bridge, you are defined by Newcastle, and you seem very keen to almost revel in it. You are fully aware that you're not capable of developing your own identity so you define yourselves by trying to compete against the odds with Newcastle, culturally (pmsl), economically, and most importantly football wise. See if Sunderland came second and we came fourth and qualified for the CL, the vast and utter majority of our fans wouldn't care less if you came above us, we'd just be delighted to get in the CL. See the season we went down, you've said yourself you were delighted we went down. See when you go down which is about as often as the average mackem lass drops her knickers, we couldn't give a fuck. When we came second in 97, Boro and you went down on the same day we qualified for the CL and it was a good laugh but I think most people were disappointed that we'd miss out on an interesting derby the next season. That is the difference, fair enough we look down our noses at you, and I read your site and you talk about "dea-cent mags who aren't ree-ley dul-ou-ded, and can tak a jo-ake", well let me tell you the people you talk about are probably from mixed area's your Washington's, your Jarrow's, your South Sh-ea-lds, people from where I come which is Newcastle look down our nose at you, always will as well, you're fuckin nobheads and you define yourselves as people and as football fans, against Britain's biggest underachievers and some would say losers. Your only ambition is to better than losers. That should be your motto on your pathetic 1997 badge in latin. That's a bit harsh. Was in a conversation with a fellow Mag and a mackem* exiled in Tynemouth the other day, the Mag told him that some cannon balls round the corner from where he lived were from Nelson's flagship and were put there by one of the unsung hero's of the day, Lord Collingwood of Tyneside. This got us talking about Sunderland's famous sons and daughters........ Well we mentioned Kate Aidie, the author of the 'All creatures great and small' books and err, that was about it until I remembered the famous 'Wearside Jack' .........."I'm Jack. I see you are still having no luck catching me. I have the greatest respect for you George, but Lord! You are no nearer catching me now than four years ago when I started. I reckon your boys are letting you down, George. They can't be much good, can they?". *Who cannot speak properly, honestly, I've never said 'what?' so much for a very long time, he has teeth like broken headstones in Walker graveyard with what looks like toffee encrusted at the top and bottom of them, I also had to explain some very rudimentary maths to him so he could work out how much material he needed. I've got to the give the lad a chance as he's fairly new and just been sent by an agency and to be fair is giving it a go but Jesus, he's fucking hard work.

Nowhere near as funny as his post match anaylsis with Gary Rowell after our 4-1 win at El Stadio del Shite. I'd have put a link but the nufc.com link to it has been removed by SAFC. Two mackems, punch drunk after a battering and in complete meltdown with a microphone to blabber into. Funny as fuck.

I would love FFS to put a book out. Souness influenced him like no other manager could, and I'm sure FFS regrets that now. They're both culpable, Stevie. Souness started the Bellamy carry on by being a far greater cunt than even Bellamy could, the difference being with Souness it would've been pre-meditated, Alan Oliver wasn't really liked by Souness so Shepherd would've briefed Oliver on Souness's behalf. At least Souness got to look the big man for a few weeks, shame it was at NUFC's expense.

I think we all realised, SBR included, that we had a good spine of a team the second season we finished eleventh, it just needed a bit extra to move us on. Robert and Bellamy were masterstroke signings and made such a huge difference. Trouble is, much as I'd like to see him up front for us it aint going to happen, he's a bit of a prick and will know he got the bird from the fans who had the anti-Bellamy propaganda fed to them via the Chronicle, (remember Terry Mac coming back to the club and slating him in the Ronny Gill even though he and Bellamy were never at the club at the same time). Alan Oliver was merely doing what his mate Shepherd wanted. Too much water under the bridge, we couldn't afford him under the current regime, too injury prone for the money we'd spend and his age plus you wonder if the likes of Nolan would be able to continue to be the main men of the dressing room. I agree though, purely on football matters, he'd be great alongside Carroll.

FYP I read a SKY preview of the game where Andy Gray of the small cock didn't think West Ham were going to win, he thought they were going to win comfortably. No idea why he thought a team at the bottom of the league would win comfortably against a side who for all their faults have a lot of battle about them and can play when they want to. I've always thought Gray has always been quick to have a pop but have no idea why. Anyway, great three points and after three almost disastrous home results was much needed. Makes you wonder what side we should put out on wednesday, as sometimes you look at this competition and think, a couple of wins and you're in a semi final, should we not go for it? But....... the league is important and fucking Sunderland and some of their support have been a little bit too cocky for some reason, we need to remind them who they are in the general scheme of things.