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Been to the cap and gown a few times but last time it was full and the coppers were turning people away. We walked down the road to a maroon and sky blue pub with a big villa crest on it. Zipped our jackets up to cover up our colours and walked in, only to find it full to busting with toon fans bouncing around on the table and singing get your tits out.

Would look so much better if we got three points and ended up just one point off getting out of the drop zone that it's untrue. Still be fucked like, but to be just one game away from potentially climbing to a safe spot would be a fucking massive boost. Think if we lose we're gonna give up hope, even if other results go our way and we're still 4 points deep in the bottom three.

Spurs played against us the same way they played against Blackburn and no matter how dreadful we were, the two Spuds fans I was watching the game with were worried it could end the same way - with the worse team getting points because of Spurs complete inability to finish off a game that was there for the taking.

That was during our match yesterday. It did look at the time like they were saying "Erm, what the fuck are we doing again?" and you could see Dowie say "4-3-3"

Can't make this match, booked it as leave before they moved it for the fucking telly

Am I the only person who doesn't like having names on the back of replica kits and also doesn't think it matters/looks wrong if there's a panel on the back with no name on it?

Unsurprising considering many of our players could be described as other clubs' sloppy seconds.

Have to say, if Ketsbia ever comes to the club in any context, we've got to nick this one http://www.newcastle-online.org/nufcforum/index.php/topic,55459.msg1772275.html#msg1772275

Sounds like just paper talk for now to be honest, "apparently", "seems", "could" I'd wait until there's some quotes before getting too worked up.

From the BBC football quotes of the week/chants of the week section

Being an Arsenal fan I'm sure he'd love his first Premier League goal to be at White Heart Lane

Fucking hell, reading the first few pages of this thread compared to the last few

Is that allowed, like? I'm sure there was some controversy recently about a club (I want to say Watford) where the ballboys were giving towels to the home side to dry the ball, but refusing to give them to their opponents because that's what they'd been instructed to do. EDIT: Aye, it was Watford, with Warnock complaining about it http://img.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/sport/football/article73225.ece Samer search also brought up Phil Brown taking issue with only Stoke players being allowed the towels at the Brittania, as well as the amount of time Delap took for the throws http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/leagues/premierleague/3537017/Hull-City-manager-Phil-Brown-loses-his-rag-over-Stoke-Citys-towel-trickery-Football.html

Fucking hell, the fact we've got a promising youngster coming through the ranks is one of the only glimmers of joy we've got at the moment, of course he's going to get a lot of attention. We're not going to sign any established top flight star are we? And when people are having a crack on about someone in the club they're always going to joke about and exaggerate their traits. Viduka's fat and eats pies, Joey Barton's a career criminal, Joe Kinnear tells everyone he meets to fuck off and eat a cock, Nile Ranger types in baffling London rude-boy slang and bangs in reserve goals with seemingly super-human regularity which has led some people to bestow on him a Jack Baur-style infallible messiah quality, which is what all the stuff about him being able to score fromt he half way line with a pelvic thrust is taking the piss out of. If when Ranger's mentioned you don't want any more than the facts and figures and his banana and custard free Queens English quotes then read the fucking match programme instead.

revolutionary! Hopefully more revolutionary that JFK's defensive work. didn't that just involve shouting and swearing? a lot No just him chucking Bacon sandwiches at the players and them having to catch them with their mouths. My lass was trying to tell me that Alex Ferguson has bowls of dolly mixtures and jelly babies in the dressing room at half time for his players to dig into to keep their energy up

The mackems going down happens with such regularity that it's not usually worth much note, but if it happens after a season of "Hahaha, Sam/Kev/Joe/Al's taking the mags down!!!!" then it would be pretty sweet.

Near Hanley, on a road called Lichfield Street. Last time I went past my old house they'd quite rightly bullbozed it though.

The Harvester pub used to close when Stoke played Port Vale and the staff would sit up on the roof watching the fights.

I lived there for 3 years without finding a pub that wasn't best avoided when Stoke were playing home or away

The problem is that sound takes time to travel, so if you've got two groups of people singing at opposite ends of the ground and trying to keep time with each other by ear they're always going to end up out of sync.

Gonna try and get time off to go down there, glory hunter

He seemed to take a heavy hit in the back like, wasn't sure if he was winded at first or what but he seemed to be in a lot of discomfort. Cracked rib? Punctured lung? He was in a bad fucking way whatever it was from what I saw. All the best to him like

Aye, spotted that. Sam on Shearer http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,12040_5138694,00.html Hiddink "warning" for Shearer http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,11661_5143137,00.html Owen on Shearer http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,12040_5142973,00.html

Dunno if it's wise to get advice from Hoddle - what does he think Dowie did in a previous life to get a face like that?

http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,11661_5133775,00.html