Wullie

Does your other sister in law work on the reception there like?

Mike's from NYC I think, we have got a couple of Chicago residents too though.

Ah. Well we've got none now either.

Haven't St Etienne already told us we've got no chance though?

Like the fucking Mail were at the game.

Er no. Quit asking.

Looks like amdy faye. Course he does, they all look the same.

Says who like?

Yeah, that's the danger. It's bad enough coming from Byker to watch some of it. Looking forward to seeing you in the Trent House.

I doubt it very much and if they are then that exemption will be challenged and will be overturned, you can't have it co-existing alongside the free movement of people in other industries. the PFAs and footballers themselves and even the PL clubs are not short of a penny to challenge it thorugh the courts. I just feel the game is going to the dogs...why stop hear..next it will be against EU laws for Celtic & Rangers and Milan etc to be restriceted to trade only in their own countires. Let them join the PL. That is were the money is at. Why bother with Hull Stoke WBA..in fact lets just scrap relegation... When you look at the stats what is the point in the EPL.. or some of the other top leagues? Surely the idea was we have some sort of affinity with our clubs and the countries they are based in? Maybe I'm a dreamer but a 3 way split of a team to HAVE to include local/same nationality/foreign would be the soultion. Touches all bases. Makes it more interesting. Bigger connection. And more importantly takes money slightly more out of the equation...which long term is what football needs to be doing. 1st thing I would change/trial for a ten year spell. Reverse prize money. EPL winners get nothing...zilch...just the trophy and the trappings that come with it. 2nd get the next least amount of money and so on. Leaves the relagated teams with less chance of finacial ruin/freefall which is happening more and more to the the last few EPL clubs. There seems to be a rather fundamental flaw in that plan.

Man, I don't think I should. You look at where the club was then, and where it's been since. You're asking me to experience all that for the first time over the course of a few days. That thumbs up smiley should have a knife in it. I think you should get them, also the Newcastle history dvd to see the TRUE glory days of NUFC........Ah the 1950's......... I've only read Fifty Years of Hurt. It pretty much caught me up to speed with present day, but in my mind, there is this huge gap between Keegan's first stint as manager (I've seen highlights of a few matches on TV) and when I actually started supporting the team. I've never seen any of the Robson era, and nothing of the managers that followed him. There's a few good videos on youtube, Robson era compilations (Tooj's in particular) but you've probably seen them anyway. The 4th and 3rd seasons were class. You planning on attending a game next season?

Doubt it.

How new? Late 2005 was the first match I ever watched. Souness was the first manager I knew of. You poor bastard.

No prizes for guessing who that was.

Very likely. Nowt like hyperbole is there Kaka?

I don't like him either but I do feel for him on this occasion.

I remember watching him in the U-21s European Championships a few weeks (months maybe?) before we signed him and he was the Portuguese stand out player by a mile. The game against England he tore us apart. Mind, Massimo Maccarone was the Italian star so us and the Smogs both got done in the end. EDIT: fuck off Tooj.

Never really got a chance because we had Robert but he had a lovely free kick on him too. Scored two in two weeks at the back end of one season. As Tooj says though, since leaving us, he's done absolutely fuck all. Is he in the Euro 2008 squad?

IIRC we had a corner (were attacking anyway) and Hugo was sitting deep in midfield, the ball broke away onto about the halfway line and he totally bottled a header with one of their midfielders, ten seconds later they'd scored. That might not be entirely correct, I attempted to drink enough that night to blot the memory out. He got booed onto the field in his next game.

What's really ironic is that personal friends of ours on this board are on first name terms with members of the board and they know as much as me and you, but in the meantime every two bit journalist in the country knows exactly what Mike "never gives a quote to anyone" Ashley is thinking.

Love how when we're searching for a manager, every little detail of their career is scrutinized but now we've got a manager who is proven at NUFC, it's taken nothing more than "apparently this bloke who came sixth in Spain is available" and he's the ideal bloke for the job and enough to sack Keegan off.

I'd agree with this, Marcelino FTW. You're not serious?

I'd like to believe you Mick but I'll buy nothing until I hear it from someone who knows the gossip column compiler at the Daily Star.

Spurs, despite finishing 11th are actually a top one team, so you can add at least another three on.

Second one but more because that's my permanent state of mind regarding NUFC. Nothing ever runs smoothly. I don't buy into anything the papers say, they know absolutely jack shit.