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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

Think James Wilson is the new Fredrico Macheda

Massive off with the Cabinieri in Cagliari at W/C 1990 ENGERLAND!

Ok, @Christmas Tree, heres NINE Manu off casts, tell us which one we should bring in on loan for "excitement"... https://uk.sports.yahoo.com/news/pereira-set-leave-man-utd-170408251.html

Would this lad be exciting for you @@Christmas Tree ? http://www.theargus.co.uk/sport/albion/14649676.Albion_knock_back_Newcastle_bid_for_winger/#comments-anchor I remember him for Leicester, I think he's another one like Ritchie who lacks a bit of pace for the top division....

Would Rafa put a block on this if it's legit?....we're at Fulham a week tomorrow, window doesn't shut for another month, would a good start to In the league be jepordised if we struggled to replace him, or would Rafa just tell Barca Perez isn't for sale? I think if it's genuine you've got to give the lad a chance. Sir Bob said the same about Woodgate to RM, but never got to replace him..

If Perez goes to Barca would he just about sneak into the black column?.....

Stop being wilfully fuckin stupid. You're not getting out of this hole by repeating the same utter shit. You wouldn't know a decent loan signing if he ran up and bit you on the arse.

If Gamez's language skills are up to scratch I think I'd have him tbh... Rafa signed him, he owes nobody else anything, most experienced player at the club..

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eT7P7JOBSkM#action=share Shrimpers defending their nets...lots of holes?... Ok, I'll get me coat...

Dwight Gayle is probably as good a signing as we can make given our circumstances. I think I can see the pattern of your wummery for the coming season, "try to discredit stuff Rafa does, that'll drive them fuckin mad" What group they come from is irrelevent to my point, for most normal people it's difficult to get excited about someone and indeed a subject they know fuck all about. Do you want a 23 year old who has been on loan to four or five different clubs, in and around the lower reaches of the premier league/bog standard championship sides, that he's quite plainly not good enough for, to provide excitement for you? That's basically what you're suggesting.

I think we've been here before....."brilliant signinging, credit to Mike.....is he any good??!" Even if we signed the best young player from the u21 squad of a perennial champions league club how the fuck would you get genuinely excited about him when you're, by your own admission, the least qualified person on here to make any comment whatsoever about players from other clubs?

Will he be reading the news then?

It won the Booker, but I think at least one judge resigned from the committee because they thought it was "shit"

He's too busy playing with his (pin)balls to read a book