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Just thought I'dd add the fact that you'd get half the Gallowgate singing 'If you're going to [insert football club here], clap your hands' at the home games prior to the away games they were singing about which I'd completely forgotten about till my mate reminded me the other day. It was the start of a Geordie mobilisation for the next away and was a pretty good way of gauging how many we'd take the following week! (Probably means nowt to younger posters but it makes me smile).

Maybe distrust of Hall but almost certainly it was him 'keeping it in the family'. The club was well known as 'the family silver' which was owned for years by the Seymour and McKeag families, Stan Seymour Snr not only played for a successful NUFC, (a formidable centre forward by all accounts), but was the de facto manager around the fifties as a Director when Managers weren't the norm as they now are. (By 1955 we tried the Manager approach, the Manager was dropping Jackie Milburn so Seymour got him back for the biggest game of the whole football season, the cup final, where Jackie did the business and we got the third of our fifties Wembley wins). Stan Jnr had his stint as chairman in more lean times before Gordon McKeag took over the reigns, he getting his club silver from Alderman McKeag. Interesting the shit the old Directors used to get for being unambitious and seeing genuine World class players leave our club with barely a finger raised by the club to prevent it compared to modern times with our mate, Mike. I remember the week before we pulled the very unlikely 2-1 win at Anfield against the mighty Liverpool we got beat at home to Coventry 0-3 and large numbers stood up in the Milburn/Beardsley stand and gave the directors dogs abuse as the third went in, (pretty sure they were all scored in the 1st half), also around that period we were linked once more with David Speedie, he was hated but he would've been a great signing for us but Coventry got him instead. We used to be outmuscled by fucking Coventry City, man! Pretty sure he scored that day, I'm sure Cyrille Regis did as well. If McKeag had've pulled a quarter of the stunts/Llambias quotes that Ashley has done he would have to be put in a safe house! A Mike Ashley then would've been in serious physical danger IMHO.

I'm sorry to hear that, mate. I'm sure you're all over the shop emotionally but your Dad lives on in you and your family. Raise a glass to him at the Christmas table as I'm sure he'll be looking on.

While I'm on I'd just like to wish you all a very happy Easter and hope you have a great 1982! Regards, Brian and Joanne

Was just thinking that if the nurse wasn't really dead and turned up at their 'Safe house' where these two zany DJ's are hiding in, biting their fingernails and whimpering to themselves and she was accompanied by someone like Noel Edmonds, a telly crew, Mr Blobby and Edmond's smarmy grin as he handed over a 'Gotcha' then it might well be the best prank the DJ's have ever been involved in?

I'm fucking murder at that, mind, Paul. Especially when someone see you first and you have no time to think.

I also heard Tulisa was meditating in the Mayan fashion by sucking on a pipe in a smoky room. The pipe, however, isn't authentic Mayan, but belongs to a young Premiership footballer called Wilson.

A few of my mates went down ticketless and ended up on the roof of a local's house who charged them a tenner each and threw a few cans in with the price. Their stand had been pulled down and the house had a great view of the pitch which it normally wouldn't. They were on the telly I think but definitely in a couple of the papers for which they got treated like minor celebrities for a couple of days round our way in Walker.

Funny enough, the one time I went in with the home fans was at Goodison as well. Was in 1994 where we won 2-0, (Cole and Beardsley). Was in a bar which I think was 'The Stanley Park' and got cracking with a Scouse lad who was red. Anyway, he liked the cut of our Jib and said he'd take us to the ticket office and come in with us. We were canny trusting, canny pissed and canny desperate and besides he seemed sound enough and had by this time spent a couple of hours on the piss with us. We ended up in what is now the away end but was for home fans then as the old away end was in its last season before being pulled down. We didn't really need to be quiet as there were no Everton fans near us as there were loads of empty seats. There was 25,000 that day and 4-5,000 were our fans, Everton were having a bad spell and this crowd was down from the 40,000 odd from my first visit six years previous when they were a force. We were happily drunk and jumped all over when our goals went in and at half time when we went for some scran and a pint I said to a Scouse Blue, 'Cheers for letting us have Beardsley back' to which he replied ironically, 'cheers for giving us Neil McDonald'

I'll also add that prior to the game the Chronicle said we'd get around a 6,000 allocation but that '10,000 Geordies were preparing to march on Merseyside', (No 'Toon Army' then), and as it was the summer holidays we got up sharp to queue up outside the old ticket office to get our tickets as there was no computers or loyalty points then, you had to queue up and take your chances. The most mental queue I remember was Blackburn away in the 4th round of the cup in 1993. Me and my pal got up at four in the morning, got a taxi from his house and as we travelled over Byker Bridge there was this mist everywhere and pockets of people heading towards the town. When we got there the queue was already snaking from the ticket office in the new Milburn Stand down by the Gallowgate gates and down on Strawberry place. The mist was enhanced by an old mattress which had been set alight, the ground was like a post apocalyptic scene and rumours became rife that people were trying to jump in the queue and tempers started getting raised and the very few Police there started flapping a bit. I think they called the ticket office staff in early and despite getting up at four in the morning I still didn't get a ticket! Remember, this was just the fourth round and we got around 5,000 tickets!

Haven't seen the news at all today and not sure I want to now. An unhinged maniac wont kill as many people with a knife, I'm afraid it's as simple as that. Anyway, RIP to those poor souls many just bairns and I don't know how the parents will cope, my heart goes out to them, truly.

Just seen this on nufc.com's advent calender about what turned out to be my first away game at Goodison Park; I remember persuading my Aunt to let my cousin go with me, (I was a couple of weeks away from my 15th birthday and he would've been 13), I told her that the Armstrong Galley bus booked from the Newcastle United Supporters shop at the Haymarket run by the old dears, (aka Tree Travel), was safe and we'd be dropped right outside the turnstiles and escorted in by the Police which was a complete fabrication from my 'desperate to go' mind. My cousin was over from Belfast and, surprise surprise supported perma-trophy winning Liverpool but he just wanted to see an English game and Everton were a good side then. We eventually got dropped off somewhere near Stanley Park and on a lovely sunny day I saw what it was to follow the Toon away from home, there were Geordies everywhere, some even were a little bit drunk, everyone was in a good mood but as .com say it didn't last long as we were well and truly hammered from the first minute as Cottee got the first of his three goals that day. What I remember is the crowd on the away terrace jumping up and down singing the Blaydon Races and it being that full that, like it or not, you jumped along as the motion of the packed end lifted you up and down. Also recall seeing the look on my cousins face as he had his eyes well and truly opened on the support of our club and how big a club we could be as until then he probably thought we were just a crappy little club like a Coventry, always near the bottom of the 1st Division. I can recall at least one car being turned over and a burger van being tipped over as well afterwards and a few Scouse scallies ducking in and out of streets baiting us afterwards but they were well outnumbered. Also remember a senior looking policeman with pips on his shoulders bending down, (the bottom of away end was a bit lower than the pitch), and him pointing his finger at some Mag and a rain of hockle come spiriling down on him but our end was that packed how could he pick out all the culprits? (Essembee would've loved that bit!) The old away end courtesy of nufc.com; (This was obviously taken at another game v Everton as you could hardly breathe on that terrace in 1988.) Please add your own memorable trips as I personally lap this stuff up!

@yourservice, you really need that 'Christmas' avatar back. I'm begging you!!

I'm not that bothered as it happens, but given the choice I'd probably say bring him back as it's clear posting on here is important to him and he is a genuine long term supporter who knows his Alan Foggon's from his Wes Saunders, which can't be said of every poster, doesn't like our owner, (Who does?), and also knows about the real history of our club, (maybe not that important to some but it gives him a little bit more leeway than someone who thinks 'Gordon McKeag' is probably some brand of Gin). Anyway, I'm quite confident nobody really gives two shites on my opinion regarding Leazes and it's irrelevant as the majority don't want him back or so it would seem, but anyway, as you brought me up that's my thoughts on it, Stevie.

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I've seen one of the songs. Oh dear. Time takes no prisoners, like.

For some daft reason CT reminds me of this old joke; CT: "Doctor, everytime I touch my arm it hurts, every time I touch my legs it hurts and when I touch my head it also knacks. Doctor: "You've a broken finger."

She was gorgeous though, lovely voice too.

As soon as I saw the thread title I knew CT would've started it.

It's a parody of LBT's patter, man, not mine.

LBT/Aeris: "Hurda gurda, hurda gurda, shitjew, burns victim etc. What do you think, CT?.........CT!.........Where you going?!"

He's on the case, MF, don't worry.

They also like saying 'good moment/bad moment' and 'for sure'. (P.S. check your fahkin' PM's my sahn!)

Don't think it's ridiculous to recognise that a lot of factors helped us last year such as the fortuitous games where things went our way and to also recognise that we might not get as lucky with injuries, form and 'wotnot' (copyright John Anderson) and with a European campaign being added to the list maybe we could've bulked up/improved on our weak areas? Also players can get into a comfort zone no matter how talented they are, maybe some real competition would've bucked a few ideas up? Basically, 'building on last year' doesn't automatically mean pushing on from 5th to 4th, but helping us to hopefully avoid the slide we've all seen so far this season due to the reasons most of us are aware of.