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Shearer basically lead the interview. TG is all about himself and the other kid is Jamie Redknapp lite. I enjoyed it because it was Shearer doing the vast majority of the talking, there was a few things I'd have asked Alan on the back his answers but these two were too young or not informed enough to grasp what to ask and when.

fraid so.

Coral pay Shearer as an 'ambassador'. By coincidence and probably as another way of playing up to the 'lad' culture and getting young'uns to bet with them, they've also agreed to sponsor True Geordie so that's how he's ended up with Shearer I'd hazard a guess?

That was canny although I did wonder a bit of the general lack of knowledge/perspective from TG and his southern sidekick, also Shearer himself getting the odd thing wrong. Had to laugh at TG comparing himself with Shearer albeit slightly tongue in cheek, (should've been 100% tongue in cheek) about being famous in Newcastle.

It's 'Mam'.

Newcastle United have been typical Newcastle United since I started going.

I haven't seen it but..... at your post, anyway.

You still hitting the tramadol, tooj?

I think the Christmas day/boxing day games from 60s and before that tended to be derbies or as close to derbies they could get. (Although saying that, I remember talking to an old West Brom fan who said NUFC were the biggest draw at the hawthorns and the travelling Geordies were great but liked a bit too much to drink and the game he was talking about was a boxing day game IIRC. He was a canny age so I asked him what era he was going on about and he said late 30s!)

There's a Chinese consortium after SAFC headed up by Sum Ting Wong.

Knowing our luck we'll get an Arab/Chinese version of Ashley and Del boy Trotter.

Anything could happen. Wouldn't be surprised at all if we beat them, wouldn't be surprised at a defeat. Can't see a lot of goals regardless.

I wonder if he deliberately chose some weird looking fuckers or if that was a genuinely random selection? (Could've even been his editors cut to get the best looking he could find onto his video?)

That fucking Scudamore is clearly a representative of a few PL clubs and not of the league as a whole. Love 'the big 6' bollocks as well. Not the top 4 anymore? Or even the big 5? I swear this big >insert number here< changes every few years. Should be called the rich clubs instead which is a lot closer to the truth. Fuck'em.

Obviously they're not all like that but there's a very sizeable portion who are, especially on that forum.

Had a rough one, eh? This one's for you, wor kid......

Just giving 'the guys' at sky something to tell their audience on Sunday. 'Rafa don't want to be here, innit?'

Absolute, 100% pure gold in RTGs thread on Shepherd btw. A few posts in and it's mags rewriting history, what min will the applause be in? Mags will have him on the staircase with Bobby and Pav, they'll do what they did with Robson, hounded him and spat at him now changing their tune, etc, etc. (And that's just the first page I bothered reading! There's a sizeable chunk on there who are borderline insane).

I was pleased he went as chairman as the club needing improving and Shepherd's techniques were costing the club money but not costing him personally. Obviously the bloke was ambitious and helped put NUFC on the map again and I'd never underestimate the drive he showed and of course when compared to the fucking horror show who followed you could get quite nostalgic about him. He had his flaws 100%, he made some serious cash off the back of NUFC but he wanted us up there going for it which is more than you can say about the FCB. RIP

It's yet more MA/Bishop PR before a standout Sky game v Liverpool.

I'm waiting to read what the Brighton forum, 'north stand chat' say before making a prediction on here.