Howmanheyman

My favourite radio moment: "My God, Cascarino has scored again" I think I listened to Radio Newcastle for that one. IT'S A GOAL!!!!

I went to a good few aways that season and it wasn't until then that I actually saw us win, think it was in April too! Remember the jimmy smiths black & white army going on for ages. Also, did anyone remember going to Ewood Park a year later, early in the season it was, it was a truly shit game when in the 90th minute O'Brien scored the only goal of the game and 5,000 Mags started chanting the tune to 'Toms Diner' by Suzanne Vega. Never heard us do it before this game or after it! I wasnt at that one but I was the one the year after, felt dangerously full 7000 in at least, KK first away game Speedie got a hattrick, and he gave us the v's after one of his goals, cos 7000 voices all sang we've all shagged ya wife Speedie, Speedie. Aye, I remember mags surging to get at the little cunt after he gloated in front of us, he got the stick for attempting to kick Tommy Wrights head off which lead to their first goal and also for just being David Speedie. He wasn't too impressed with the 'shagged your wife' song. Judging by the look on his face I often wondered if his kids looked like their dad or if they looked like Speedie, instead! Speedie wasn't the one who tried to behead Tommy, it was Jason Wilcox. Speedie was irratating little cunt who decided that the drop-ball that was awarded (fucking stupid refereeing decision that BTW!) was fair game for him rather than him courteously allow us to have the ball back seeing as it was our player that was maimed. That and his ridiculous carry on after his hat-trick goal. He'd have been booked for that these days. You're quite right, must be getting muddled when he tried to decapitate Kevin Brock at Birmingham. Talking of the eighties, does anyone remember the dulcet tones of Metro Radio's star commentator, Charles Harrison? I swear he'd just tell you we'd scored in a conversational tone in the middle of one of his sentences and almost carry on with his point. Always raised the octaves that bit higher when he commentated on the mackems.

Quite plainly paid off. Very few cities with as much civic pride. But its always the same. Planning commitees are the most corruptable fuckers in public life. Its going to be obscene They obviously forgot who they're supposed to represent. There's a sad little bastard who comes round delivering leaflets for the lib-dems every time there's any kind election. I look forward to his walking up my drive, now.

Kev, you're like shit off'a stick! (That means you're quick to reply!)

Fucking hell, man! If you can't change it in your real life at least have the courtesy not to do it on a Newcastle UNITED forum where it'll most irritate most Mags, I'd guess. oh, didnt even realise i'd done it then Honestly, Andrew, it's a bad habit you need to get out of, especially if you take a few games in. not really a habit at all, ive never done it before. You and Kevin should get together then, kill two birds with one stone and all that.

Just heard that the council have backed Ashleys advertising. Has anyone read the objectors views? Very few bad ones last time I looked, no personal abuse just good points on the heritage of the club/City. Completely ignored by the council. Remember this if the fuckers ever knock on your door or post one of their leaflets and you're in the house.

Fucking hell, man! If you can't change it in your real life at least have the courtesy not to do it on a Newcastle UNITED forum where it'll most irritate most Mags, I'd guess. oh, didnt even realise i'd done it then Honestly, Andrew, it's a bad habit you need to get out of, especially if you take a few games in.

Fucking hell, man! If you can't change it in your real life at least have the courtesy not to do it on a Newcastle UNITED forum where it'll most irritate most Mags, I'd guess.

You as well, Fist?

My taste in tunes is wide and varied I'm the sort of bloke who would be a good DJ at someones 40th birthday party in a social club. Err, can you put 'I love an atmosphere' By Russ Abbott on, please, DJ Stevie? That'll get them up. "and when you take me there you and I'll be dancing in the cool night air ooh ooh ooh.." They don't make them like that anymore! Thank fuck!

My taste in tunes is wide and varied I'm the sort of bloke who would be a good DJ at someones 40th birthday party in a social club. Err, can you put 'I love an atmosphere' By Russ Abbott on, please, DJ Stevie? That'll get them up.

Tony Blair was on the right tracks but got it wrong....if he'd said "everyone's middle income nowadays" he'd have been more accurate if you ask me. You can have done the university thing, got a graduate traineeship, made a meteroric rise through the ranks of a ftse top 100 comapany, married Jemima, the Roedean educated daughter of the finance director, got the townhouse,got,got the villa in Tuscany,got the Porsche Cayenne and dozens of immigrant staff to look after the two of you and your 2.4 children and your fuckin golden retreiver....but if you were brought up in Wallsend where your old man worked as a light plater in Swan Hunters and your mam as a dinner lady theres still fuck all middle class about you I disagree tbh But there are very few people working class these days. To put it in perspective, when I was a baby my dad used to have to ride his bike from CLS to Bishop Auckland to get to work as he couldn't afford the bus. Seriously. He used to steal coal off the slag heap to keep the house warm when interest rates went up to 15%, and used to hide from the gas man behind the sofa. These days the 'working classes' have the full sky package, broadband, flat screen, 3 takeaways a week, 2 cars on the drive. Times are easier nowadays, no doubt about that. And a lot of traditional "working class" industries have gone forever. But the word "class" is a bit of a red herring for me. I'm capable of and do earn a salary that would definetly put me in the "middle class" bracket....but I get my hands dirty every day for it (sparkie), my old man was a chippy and my mam was a home help for old folk. I'm also part gypsy and part Irish and my grandfather and all his 5 brothers were mole catchers Now if I was from a long line of doctors, accountants, lawyers or high acheivers in general you could say I was middle class. But as you can see thats not really the case. I'm middle income though, same as a lot of people I'd imagine. Maybe not the ones with cleaners or au pairs...they're just lazy fuckers who've forgotten where they're from A sparky getting their hands dirty? Whatever next? Margeret Thatcher coming in the club and having a pint with the lads whilst farting the tune to the Blaydon Races? This thread makes me think I may be on the same MB as some of the elite of society. Hiring cleaners? Hiring 50K a year gardeners? Hiring nannies? I think I'll just stand in the corner and wait until I'm spoken to like the good working class peasant I am. Don't feel insecure, they're mainly Billy Bullshitters tbh. I don't. But I might start taking notes about who the first to be shot on this board will be come Le revolution. P.S. Bullshitters on this board? I don't believe it!

Tony Blair was on the right tracks but got it wrong....if he'd said "everyone's middle income nowadays" he'd have been more accurate if you ask me. You can have done the university thing, got a graduate traineeship, made a meteroric rise through the ranks of a ftse top 100 comapany, married Jemima, the Roedean educated daughter of the finance director, got the townhouse,got,got the villa in Tuscany,got the Porsche Cayenne and dozens of immigrant staff to look after the two of you and your 2.4 children and your fuckin golden retreiver....but if you were brought up in Wallsend where your old man worked as a light plater in Swan Hunters and your mam as a dinner lady theres still fuck all middle class about you I disagree tbh But there are very few people working class these days. To put it in perspective, when I was a baby my dad used to have to ride his bike from CLS to Bishop Auckland to get to work as he couldn't afford the bus. Seriously. He used to steal coal off the slag heap to keep the house warm when interest rates went up to 15%, and used to hide from the gas man behind the sofa. These days the 'working classes' have the full sky package, broadband, flat screen, 3 takeaways a week, 2 cars on the drive. Times are easier nowadays, no doubt about that. And a lot of traditional "working class" industries have gone forever. But the word "class" is a bit of a red herring for me. I'm capable of and do earn a salary that would definetly put me in the "middle class" bracket....but I get my hands dirty every day for it (sparkie), my old man was a chippy and my mam was a home help for old folk. I'm also part gypsy and part Irish and my grandfather and all his 5 brothers were mole catchers Now if I was from a long line of doctors, accountants, lawyers or high acheivers in general you could say I was middle class. But as you can see thats not really the case. I'm middle income though, same as a lot of people I'd imagine. Maybe not the ones with cleaners or au pairs...they're just lazy fuckers who've forgotten where they're from A sparky getting their hands dirty? Whatever next? Margeret Thatcher coming in the club and having a pint with the lads whilst farting the tune to the Blaydon Races? This thread makes me think I may be on the same MB as some of the elite of society. Hiring cleaners? Hiring 50K a year gardeners? Hiring nannies? I think I'll just stand in the corner and wait until I'm spoken to like the good working class peasant I am.

£100 lifetime membership? That's asking a hell of a lot considering there are signs this trust may be going into decline. I'm a member and although I support the fact that as a group, Mags should have a voice, some of Peasepuds comments have me wondering what the point of handing any money over is. I'll probably give them another tenner and another years grace but I'm not sure what the future holds for NUSC/T.

Anyway, off the top of my head, I've been impressed with Man City's support in the past, also the likes of Leeds, Man U and even our mates down the road. I'm not going to include teams who have 10,000 gates then take 8,000 to Old Trafford for a cup game. Thought it was quite funny when Spurs just had to turn up at Elland Road to beat Everton in the semi-final one year and got twatted 4-1, was far better, obviously when they thought the same with us at Old Trafford in our 2-0 semi-final in '99. If you're not sure what that has to do with support, well, they were outshouted from first minute till the last in both games, especially ours!

I think he was genuinely astonished no one mentioned Everton, funny how he defended the clubs support by saying they had 3200 fans outside of Alkmaar's ground who couldn't get in If any Mag on here said Everton then I'd expect the next post to be from the Irish lad from the Everest advert saying, "Now be honest, you didn't expect to be seeing that, did you?". Did you see their away support at Stoke?? At least 1500 empty seats for a game which is what?? 30 mile away? Or should I say awoiii. I didn't see it but am happy to take your word for it if you, sorry, yow saw it on the telloiii! Villa. Olte Enduz in the skoi yippy aye yip yippy aye owwww Gabboi Gabboi Gabboi Aboonluhor hois fast as fook hois fast foooooo oooooo oooook On the peesss mu lorrd on the peessss oh lorrd on the peessss, its yowa round mu lorrd its yowa round, owwwwww lorrd its yowa round Birmeeeengggum are yow lisinin to the songs we'uuur seeengeeen, walkin along seeengeen uh song shit on the Citoi as woi goooooooooooooooooah Seriously, though, 1,500 empty seats at Stoke. Shite support once more from Villa. I just can't believe it when I see these fucking clueless cunts trying to take the piss out of our support, have they no idea of the hypocrisy? If we have a bad gate then we call it as we see it and admit it. These fuckers are incapable of putting their hands up admitting they've got an average support, I don't expect them to call themselves boring, though, no, we'll do that one on their behalf, tbf. Look at the Premiership since 1993. Villa have had 19,000 Everton have had 13,000 Spurs have had 17,000 on more than one occasion Liverpool have had 22,000 in Arsenal had a 19,000 We remain the only club to have never had a gate under 30,000 in the Premiership, even Man Utd have. So it's easy to get carried away with stats like that, but EVERYONE in football knows the truth, and I'm not going to say what it is because I don't need to, everyone knows what the truth is, you can base it on opinion or even fact. The thing is a bad gate for us, is the better than the likes of Villa, Everton and Spurs have had for 30 years. The only club in football who support wise stand up to us are Man Utd. They've won 25 trophies in the last twenty years and we've won none. Villa and Everton at home were never big games for us, and even this season they're games we should be looking to win. You enjoy the games more when there's 3,000 passionate away fans giving you it, and that happens when Leeds, Man Utd and Sunderland come, no cunt else really. I always like games against the three big London teams, oh and Tottenham too as well. We played Chelsea in the league cup early on the rounds in 1992, we were in the 2nd division. There was 30,000 there on a night game during the week. 7,000 were Mags. Three days later Chelsea played Sheff Utd in the PL at Stamford Bridge watched by 13,000!

While I'm at it, I caught a bit of big nose Thompson bigging up his pal Houllier on the SKY sports saturday show with Stelling. He came out with, "What a big club Villa are, Geoff, people forget, they're a big club with great support, yeah they have a little moan, which supporters don't?". This is from the same fucker who has had a few snidey digs at our support in the past, calling us moaners! But with 'Tommo' he's such a hardcore scouse red, that you can tell it really fucking grates when our fans are praised and his fans aren't.

I think he was genuinely astonished no one mentioned Everton, funny how he defended the clubs support by saying they had 3200 fans outside of Alkmaar's ground who couldn't get in If any Mag on here said Everton then I'd expect the next post to be from the Irish lad from the Everest advert saying, "Now be honest, you didn't expect to be seeing that, did you?". Did you see their away support at Stoke?? At least 1500 empty seats for a game which is what?? 30 mile away? Or should I say awoiii. I didn't see it but am happy to take your word for it if you, sorry, yow saw it on the telloiii! Villa. Olte Enduz in the skoi yippy aye yip yippy aye owwww Gabboi Gabboi Gabboi Aboonluhor hois fast as fook hois fast foooooo oooooo oooook On the peesss mu lorrd on the peessss oh lorrd on the peessss, its yowa round mu lorrd its yowa round, owwwwww lorrd its yowa round Birmeeeengggum are yow lisinin to the songs we'uuur seeengeeen, walkin along seeengeen uh song shit on the Citoi as woi goooooooooooooooooah Seriously, though, 1,500 empty seats at Stoke. Shite support once more from Villa. I just can't believe it when I see these fucking clueless cunts trying to take the piss out of our support, have they no idea of the hypocrisy? If we have a bad gate then we call it as we see it and admit it. These fuckers are incapable of putting their hands up admitting they've got an average support, I don't expect them to call themselves boring, though, no, we'll do that one on their behalf, tbf.

I think he was genuinely astonished no one mentioned Everton, funny how he defended the clubs support by saying they had 3200 fans outside of Alkmaar's ground who couldn't get in If any Mag on here said Everton then I'd expect the next post to be from the Irish lad from the Everest advert saying, "Now be honest, you didn't expect to be seeing that, did you?". Did you see their away support at Stoke?? At least 1500 empty seats for a game which is what?? 30 mile away? Or should I say awoiii. I didn't see it but am happy to take your word for it if you, sorry, yow saw it on the telloiii! Villa.

I think he was genuinely astonished no one mentioned Everton, funny how he defended the clubs support by saying they had 3200 fans outside of Alkmaar's ground who couldn't get in If any Mag on here said Everton then I'd expect the next post to be from the Irish lad from the Everest advert saying, "Now be honest, you didn't expect to be seeing that, did you?".

I went to a good few aways that season and it wasn't until then that I actually saw us win, think it was in April too! Remember the jimmy smiths black & white army going on for ages. Also, did anyone remember going to Ewood Park a year later, early in the season it was, it was a truly shit game when in the 90th minute O'Brien scored the only goal of the game and 5,000 Mags started chanting the tune to 'Toms Diner' by Suzanne Vega. Never heard us do it before this game or after it! I wasnt at that one but I was the one the year after, felt dangerously full 7000 in at least, KK first away game Speedie got a hattrick, and he gave us the v's after one of his goals, cos 7000 voices all sang we've all shagged ya wife Speedie, Speedie. Aye, I remember mags surging to get at the little cunt after he gloated in front of us, he got the stick for attempting to kick Tommy Wrights head off which lead to their first goal and also for just being David Speedie. He wasn't too impressed with the 'shagged your wife' song. Judging by the look on his face I often wondered if his kids looked like their dad or if they looked like Speedie, instead!

I went to a good few aways that season and it wasn't until then that I actually saw us win, think it was in April too! Remember the jimmy smiths black & white army going on for ages. Also, did anyone remember going to Ewood Park a year later, early in the season it was, it was a truly shit game when in the 90th minute O'Brien scored the only goal of the game and 5,000 Mags started chanting the tune to 'Toms Diner' by Suzanne Vega. Never heard us do it before this game or after it!

It's not very PC to say but a huge ingredient in any decent atmosphere is aggression and hatred. That doesn't have to manifest in violence but it's still necessary imo. Like I said before Goodison is arguably the most aggresive, hate-filled ground in the league. Tom knows, it's fucking primeval at times. I sat in with the Everton fans in the mid nineties when I couldn't get a ticket in our end, it was where the away fans are put now. there was a lot of apathy in the air, a lot of empty blue seats and the only primeval thing I saw was the fucking pie I ate. (to be fair, the blue Scousers knew we were Geordies and were good craic).

Funny how whenever we went away you'd read the opposition players/managers asking their crowd to be up for it as there'd be a large, vocal Geordie following coming down to their place. How many times has the reverse happened? Also, think of all the famous games in our past where there were thousands, (and I'm talking over 7,000 as a starter, up to almost 20,000 on one occasion), who traveled to away games which weren't even semi-finals but in some cases just 2nd division games or early round cup ties. When you've had a think about that, then try and think of all the games since you've been going of every single game at St. James' where an away side brought huge numbers, thats not just one club, but every club who've came here in your time following NUFC. It wouldn't even be a close thing. P.S. To our Blue guest, I've only once in my time of going to games, (1983), seen you bring a big-ish support up, (about 4,000 in the mid eighties). Now you may have taken millions to loads of other games, I'm just talking about games up here. (Isn't it rather funny/sad when old successful clubs like Everton, Villa, Citeh, Spurs and yes, NUFC as well, have so little to shout about we bang on about size/attendances!) Yours, the sad/funny, Howmanheyman

You have won the grand sum of 3 more trophies than us - are you one of those who sing "You've never won fuck all"? Learn some history. You haven't won a trophy since, what, 1958ish, that's the excellent progress of a big club. Have you ever had a period where you've dominated English football? Yes we have dominated in the past. Just like you once did, in the past. Difference is my Scouse friend, we've stayed more loyal than most when the hard times come round, if you're comfortable with your fans efforts in similar circumstances then good for you, I'm more than ready to defend our supporters, who are the only big thing about the club according to fans of other clubs when accusing us of not being a big club, then the same mongs accuse our support of being shite in the next breath. Which is it? It's quite clear this lad is no older than 21, part of the Talksport generation. I was speaking to a blue dipper in London last time I was down, and he said he'd not missed a home game since 1977, and the best away support he'd ever seen was the toon in 1988, opening day when we lost 4-0. There was 45,000 in the ground, 10,000 toon fans* he said 4-0 down you would think it was us who were winning. I love the argument that we have a bigger ground so we get bigger crowds, when they can't even fucking sell out their little stadium against Man Utd There was only 35,000 there on Saturday. Other clubs use it too. My first away game. I took my Irish cousin who naturally supported Liverpool along to it as he was over, it didn't surprise me but he was gobsmacked, literally as well as metaphorically, a stray arm hit him whilst surging on down to the Blaydon Races. *Was more 7000-8000 I reckon.