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Is he ok then?...

https://mobile.twitter.com/gallowgateflags Am I just being a miserable old bastard in saying that I don't think this is, traditionally speaking, appropriate for our club?.... I don't think it's appropriate for English football supporters in general tbh. We're not flag wavers, until someone sells a gazillion of them outside an FA final or something....it's just not us iyam. The only club I can think of that have any tradition of a few flags in the crowd are Liverpool. To me it's more a continental thing, specifically Italian, you always see a fair few flags in the Curva Nord etc being waved around by the ultras. It's not really in our supporting culture and trying to suddenly introduce it smacks of just starting a gimmick or fad, bit like man city and inflatable bananas. Maybe I'm wrong and it will be a marvellous spectacle, people will do it at appropriate times and they will definitely NOT, in any way shape or form, wave a flag and prevent those sitting behind them from seeing what's happening on the pitch...Just a thought but I remember when Ashley closed the L7 singing section and a large number of folk moved from there to join us in the south east corner, where some persisted in standing throughout the first game v Arsenal, and a fair few others pre Christmas that season. The ill feeling and indeed physical confrontations that caused were, to say the absolute least, regrettable. I wouldn't want to see some over exuberant youngster being threatened with having his flag shoved up his arse by some of our more volatile comrades. We'll see how it goes I suppose but it's not really for me.

Go on then mate, am all ears... Iyam it's to do with the prem lges abundance of riches....the market has gone through the roof for average players.

On the face of it that's a fair point, but we've got a coach in the same league as Sir Bob now who actually has the ability motivate and to actually improve players as the season goes on. The vast majority of our squad won't have played for someone with Bentez's ability before, a lot of his ex players say he's the best they've worked with. Of course we're all allowed an opinion on who's coming in, but trying to play FM in our own heads doesn't allow for what might happen with the players during the season and how they might develop.

I used to visit friends in Earlsfield in the 90s and drank in and around Clapaham a fair bit, Lavender Hill etc, it was fully gentrified even back then. Putney high street was still quite rough round the edges so I liked that better but it's gone the same way now. Just looked on trip advisor about the Bricklayers, first review: "don't tell anyone about this place!"

We're going through Clapham Junction on the train, that's a good shout, cheers. That Brickies looks canny enough too, may see you in there... If you see a fellah who looks like a Geordie inspirational speaker/life coach/property dealer buying huge rounds of pre match sambucca I'll be with him

Can't be arsed with that place, too small, last time I was there pre match they had fuckin stewards marshalling the pre match piss up wearing pink hi viz vests. Fuck that, although we did bizarrely have a post match pint with Nobby Solano's brother in there, bloke was the spitting image of him and was stood their in the 8 bells wearing the wet, mud splattered shirt Nobby had just taken off There's a boozer on the way to the ground not far from there called The Temperance which is a good spot, but as you say with 7k of our lot on the rampage in west London on a Friday its best to get in somewhere early.

If you all want a laugh, I could post a picture of the bamboo needle tattoo (think Mel Gibson in the film Mutiny) I got on koh phi phi in Thailand but frankly I'm too ashamed The biggest traveller cliche going; go to a tropical island with your missus and get matching tattoos The current Mrs PL has a few smallish, discreet and tasteful inkings and talked me into it. Now I'm hooked, im going to get something like this which belongs to a mate of mine... Taken on the train coming back from one of our cup defeats by Brighton a few years back...he won the "best NUCF tattoo" contest by some distance, as you can imagine

There's thousands of those fuckers on the north island, one of them informed us he wasn't keen on dear old Nelson getting the president gig and shipped out round then, the NZ goverment loved all these farmers coming over and did a deal for them. As you say they just sound bizzare, one of them we met sounded fairly normal SA, but he littered his speech with kiwi colloquialisms, "Kia ora bro!" In the accent of FW Botha

I can confirm that I'm in attendance, representing the TT massive Any part time cockneys ( I'm thinking you, @@The Fish )care to suggest a riverside pub that doesn't want to serve us braised pigs ear with a side of bone marrow jelly, rather than a pint of fuckin beer? we're arriving early and all I can find is gastro pubs or boozers where you may have to be wearing the right rowing club colours to get in. The weathers supposed to be half decent so we're looking for a decent hostlery near the river in Fulham or Putney that will let a desperate company of General Benitez's foot soldiers in

While that is undoubtedly true, can't think of too many "old pals acts" such as this that really work tbh...happy to be proved wrong though...

29 years ago today apparently... https://youtu.be/rBxjZXIWj5I Chuffed as nuts with Gazzas late goal we bombed straight out on to Gorgie Road to find Hibs CCS mob waiting for us

That's great Noelie, thanks for sharing. There's a few names you mention I remember from 70s football stickers, Clyde Best is definetly the most famous though, apart from "Mick Mahoney super goalie na na na na" Try scanning the photo if you've got one, or maybe taking a photo of the photo?..

How do you know Clyde Best?...even for you Noelie, that's random....

Happy birthday Rents......saw this and thought of you

Agreed. I think he liked going to watch them after he finally retired, he just liked watching football and being among football folk without any real prejudice, and Niall Quinn treated him brilliantly from what I gather. Niall Quinn who was gobbed on by a mackem outside Roker in 1996...according to Niall Quinn's own book that is. Obviously Shepherd undermining then sacking Sir Bob made visits to SJP a tiny bit awkward too after 2004. In Sir Bob's own book, he was on about when Shearer scored five v Sheffield Weds in Sir Bob's first home game in charge. He said that it was also there the last time a player scored that many for NUFC with his dad, v Newport County in 1946 Len Shackleton scored six http://www.11v11.com/matches/newcastle-united-v-newport-county-05-october-1946-103750/ He also talks about getting the bus with his old man from Langley Park to Chester Le Street, then another to Haymarket, just to watch us every other week. He also talks about how he'd ask "how have Newcastle got on?" regardless of where he was working in the world, every Saturday at 4-45 pm. He also said that when he looked out at a full house at SJP from the dugout he saw his dad sitting in every single seat and accordingly wanted to please us all as much as he could. Am almost certain he doesn't mention Sunderland once in the entire book, but seeing as I can remember all that off the top of my head, I think it's a good bet I'm right. Regardless of how a few morons treated him when he was England manager 35 years ago, he was and remained a Newcastle United supporter until the day he died. I'll tell you who did go and watch the mackems as kids from time to time, Bobby and Jackie Charlton, it says so in Bob's book abut his career at Manu. Tbh, I wouldn't be surprised if It turned out that Sir Bob went to Roker too in his younger day, hundreds of his and the Charltons' generation would watch both clubs week about, whoever was at home. But Sir Bob was a Mag to his bootstraps, just because he'd probably get something from any game of football he watched across his entire life doesn't alter that. Them down the road should really stop trying to rewrite history on this because the facts don't bare out what they say.

He said the same about the Milan game a few years back

First half goals here, courtesy of Dr. Ed Harrison.... http://www.nufcblog.com/2016/07/30/half-time-newcastle-3-vitesse-0-video/

A lad I worked with had a book that explains all that (I borrowed it but never gave it back, still got it) I'd forgotten some of the things that you mention here, it is properly interesting but am not sure how much of it I buy now am older and whether it matters what the motivation is if you're just a a gang of psychopathically deranged killers. They're all doing it for the same reasons regardless of motivation.

I think that's one of them where if you nip into Waterstones and order a copy there's someone in Whitehall who shades a bit of a spreadsheet red next to your name I know a tiny bit about it, as I say am aware both Adolf and Uncle Joe dabbled in the occult, but it's twenty years since I was reading that sort of stuff, I had a lovely period in my mid twenties when I was nearly as paranoid as you

Hitler was a devil worshipper...but there again so was Stalin I suppose they were ethnically German Catholics before Hugo Boss issued them with a nice new rig out, but they weren't doing it in the name of the Pope tbh..

I know how this conversation came about my dear old thing, and that was you trying to show you know something about football and failing miserably as usual. Rob Lee's prowess at free kicks was irrelevent during virtually the entire time he was at the club and you trying to illustrate a spurious point by using a pretty much non existent part of his game only goes to prove it. Pip pip

He's largely wrong and Rayvin is largely right The Nazis didn't need a religion to try to exterminate Jews, gypsies, the disabled, homosexuals etc etc... Just because Isis are using some twisted form of religion as their motivation, their end goals amount to the same thing, a lust for power over others. Religion is a massive red herring that's just used to divide the wider population in general.

I wasn't, I trudged through the 80s and am fucked if I know why you'd mention who was taking free kicks in possibly the most free scoring, off the cuff and improvisational team in NUFC's post war history. But am sure you have your reasons, such as they are....

@@wykikitoon is your man, fellow yorkie and always looking for company on the A1