Tom_NUFC

Shite game. 0-0 was the fair result, but the game was there for us to win, because they didn't threaten us. But there was no performance from us.

Radio 5's Sportsweek had a short interview with Michael Owen this morning, and this time they actually asked him a few Newcastle related questions (of course they went on to ask him about England - now there's a suprise eh). Anyway, in summary. His rehabilitation is going well, he's running and jogging, though not at full pace and no twisting and turning yet, though these will be happening shortly. He's enjoying "getting the usual sort of aches and pains from running" and blisters. He said he feels like he's a footballer again. He has been working with a ball with passes and side footers, but not blasting the ball full pelt yet. Playing some games before the end of the season is the plan, and he says he's on course for this. The next stage will be to be training with the team and getting some tackles in for a few weeks before he's match ready though. He feels that Newcastle are doing as well as they can this season. He's watched most of our games this season and feels we've performed well (sometimes Michael, only sometimes - not yesterday though eh, or last week at Wigan, or...... etc etc etc). We've had 10-15 players out injured at times, so we've done well to be in the top half of the table (Top Half? - only just!) and if we hadn't had the injuries we've had, we'd be up around 4th, 5th or 6th (aye, we'd probably be doing better - but no club goes a season injury free).

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I actually don't mind their accent. I think its quite comical. Perhaps thats got something to do with the exaggerated accents that Vic and Bob do like, but I find it quite funny.

I dislike them, but I don't hate them. It's NOT a derby. You know what it like when we play the Mackems - that nervous sick feeling regardless of how well we're doing and badly they're doing (or vice versa on the odd occassion), the feeling that defeat is unthinkable/unbearable, the knot in your stomach. None of that is there for me when we play Boro, it just feels like a normal game. Maybe its a bigger game for NUFC fans who are from further south in the region, but as a Tynesider, I think the general consensus is that its not a derby. I think Boro would love it to be considered a Derby game. They hate us, but generally its an unrequited hate. Its something that us and the Mackems agree on, that the only derby involving either of us is NUFC-SAFC. Boro doesn't figure.

Yup. As is The Ramones' version of the Spiderman theme. http://download.yousendit.com/1A8F8E135089384C

Aye, The Zutons are from 'Liverpeeeewwwl'

Its a pretty overrated song like, and I love Oasis.

She'd get it big time. And seems to be a sound girl from what I can remember from interviews. The hipster's in luuuurv!! If she played her cards right...... would the bin dipper accent not put you off?

I think are Mike Flowers version was '96 and the original was '95. I remember Noel Gallagher talking about Wonderwall on the TV once, about how very soon after it was released they had the request for Mike Flowers to cover it and he'd accepted it and forgotten all about it, until he was listening to the radio one day, and they played the Mike Flowers version for the first time, but the DJ joked that it was the original version from the 1960s, and Noel Gallagher thought he must have heard it sometime and it stayed in his subconscience and thought he'd unintentionally ripped it off. Mind you, he was very close with a lot of his songs, although not so much Beatles songs as people like to accuse him of.

If we're talking about the past then another one, although were only talking 5/6 years ago was Hilary Woods, who was the bassist in JJ72 until she left in 2003 - JJ72 themselves broke up last year. Any way, she was canny nice. I was luvcky enough to meet the band several times and interview them. Good band, shame it never worked out for them. The second photo is one I took at a gig at Newcastle Uni in 2002, when I interviewed the band for a music website I ran at the time called Roots of Rock.

probably a generic indie band

My Mam's maiden name apparently originates in India, which we found out a while ago, and its puzzling because we don't know of any Indian origin - there's certainly no indian features in the family. Though there's a suggestion of it being linked to the Channel Islands, and somewhere (I can't remember where) there is a connection to Jersey in the family. My paternal Grandma's maiden name is a very Northumbrian name - one of the old Northumbrian Border Reiver clans that used to give the Scots hell back in the Middle Ages.

Lynch: Galway, Ireland - deriving from the Gaelic clan ''O'Loinsigh''. I knew that already.

Ah, The Viz's Sexist Book of Records. I also loved their Sexism Studies Exam paper.

NME picking up the Melody Maker baton. MM did all that in the final few years before its departure. I thought it was a bit cack to be honest, although there were some better options back in around 1998-2001 when they did it.

Favourites Jimi Hendrix - All Along The Watchtower (Bob Dylan) The Clash - I Fought The Law (The Crickets) Hayseed Dixie - I Love Rock N Roll (The Arrows) Hayseed Dixie - The Ace Of Spades (Motorhead) Oasis - Come On Feel The Noise (Slade) Quiet Riot - Come On Feel The Noise (Slade) Smashing Pumpkins - Isolation (Joy Division) Smashing Pumpkins - Girl Named Sandoz (The Animals) Royal Philharmonic Orchestra - Some Might Say (Oasis) Royal Philharmonic Orchestra - Supersonic (Oasis) Happy Mondays - Step On (John Kongas) Happy Mondays - Tokoloshe Man (John Kongas) I also like this Reggae cover version of Radiohead's No Suprises http://download.yousendit.com/2951037D635BD8B2

All that's mine you might as well have it You take 10p back and then stab it Spray it on and tag it So sack on me I can't stand the needy Get around here if you're asking you're feeling

what you get is just what you see yeah

We've got Broadband and Phone with them and we got a letter telling us and saying that our service won't be effected or changed etc. It's not really a switch or anything. Telewest and NTL merged a while back and Branson's bought them and done a name change to bring them under the Virgin name, that's all. We used to have Telewest cable (but switched to Sky about 5 years ago for better channels), and when we had it installed back in 1995 it was United Artists cable. Mind, they told some pork pies. When they were installing cable in the area, they put loads of details through peoples' letter boxes including information about their special United Artists sports channel for the North East that they were going to launch, which was going to show coverage of every Newcastle away game. When we rang up to find out about getting cable in, they sent one of their reps around to tell us about it, and I already whiffed bullshit about the NUFC thing, pointing out that Sky had exclusive rights to live matches, and BBC got highlights, and he went on about some nonesense about they'd done a deal with Sky. It wasn't the clincher like, me and my brother had nagged at my Mam to get Sky in for the Football for a while, and she finally gave in. So we waited for this channel when the season started, and not long after they sent out a letter saying that their channel had been bought by Live TV and so it wouldn't be showing NUFC away games.

On the subject of annoying Americanisms, here are some I don't like. Z (1): I've heard people right here in the United Kingdom calling it 'Zee'. IT'S NOT F*CKING ZEE! IT'S F*CKING ZED! Z(2): People are replacing the 'S' in some words with a 'Z'. I hate that. It's Recognise, not Recognize. I was in a lecture on decolonisation on Friday afternoon, and the lecturer wrote 'DecoloniZation'. I've put the z as a capital, because to me when I see the z used like that, it stands out like a turd on a trifle. I hate it, I hate it, I hate it. I was fuming. I wanted to stand up and scream. Fortunately someone nearer was also irritated and told him in a more polite manner, and he changed it. Dropping 'to' and 'and': Americans will talk about how they've got to 'Go take a bath' , 'Go see my friend'. what's happened to the 'and'. If they go away, a friend or relation might say 'Keep in touch, write me'. If anyone said that to me, I'd get a pen and some paper and write 'Me'. I suppose these things are acceptable in America, because of course speech changes over distances, but I don't like to see them creeping into our speech.

Sure you're not forgetting someone? Twat Sorry mate

That's not actually true, because until well into the 19th century, there were no standard spellings. Many words were spelt in a variety of wierd and wonderful ways. The 'u' in colour and other words are due to them being taking from french words which had 'u's in them. On the date thing - the Japanese do dates in yet another way. For instance they'd write today's date as: 07/02/25

Been at Wigan, so been eating bits and pieces at various times. Breakfast (at 5.30 am) was Fried Egg, Bacon, Sausages, Black Pudding and Mushrooms, and a glass of Orange Juice. On the bus on the way down I had a packet of Cheese and Onion Down there - 3 pints of Stella and a Meat and Potato pie. On the way back - a can of Coke and a can of Sprite Zero. Stopped in on the way back home for a curry - Kashmiri Chicken, Chips and an Onion Bhaji, and a can of Coke. So to conclude, a day of healthy eating.

I concur, we were shite today. Duff couldn't put a foot right, Onyewu was dodgy - gave away several free kicks including the one they scored from. Other than that - they do nice pies at Wigan, and the atmosphere at the Red Robin pub before the game was jumping. I met Smoggeordie, Newcastle Rocker, Andrew Flintoff on the briefly on the bus - meeting people of internet forums seems wierd like. Their fans were keen on giving us the vs afterwards - including a bus load of kids with inflatable Wigan hammers and a bloke and his kid from the window of their home. And I haven't even mentioned the Wigan charver with his hands down his trackie bottoms. Rugby playing cunts who don't do anything unless the Scoreboard has COME ON WIGAN! displayed.