Benwell Lad

The vitriol and hatred Boro fans have always directed towards Geordies (an inferiority thing ?) has never been truly reciprocated as we've never actually been that bothered about them, they're just another opposition team. From our perspective it's never been a real derby. Now we give them a little bit back they start coming all sanctimonious. Pass the sick bag someone. That said have to agree our fans (especially at home) have become pretty insipid and the wit we were once famed for seems to have gone, replaced by the standard repetitive chants heard in every ground in the country. I'm surprised that Big Bung Allardyce got off so lightly. True like the smog said Man Utd fans are probably now the wittiest (hate to admit it) but they do come up with chants from a different angle. How have fans around the country let off Ronney and Ronald so lightly ? I reckon each time Rooney takes a free kick, corner etc chants of "Ro-Nald-Ho" and when Ronald does the same chants of "Roo-ney" could be the wind up they need. Be assured they'd be dishing it out big time if it were any other club's players involved.

I have seen the glimpses of Luque which suggest he is a top quality footballer. His goal against Lillestroem displayed the type of cutting edge quality we have lacked for a long time. His goal against the macums was cooly taken and his reaction (celebration ) afterwards almost said "please help me and believe in me". I think we need to continue helping him. Not making excuses for his generally poor performance, but this is a quality player going through a bad time - for whatever reason. He has too much quality not to come good eventually, we can help him through and hopefully watch him do it for us or we can risk letting him go and see him doing it for someone else. Please Luque regain your confidence and start turning it on for us.

That's just exactly what I thought ! It just seems so strange. The last person you'd have ever thought keane would work for is his long time adversary quinn ?? Stranger things have happened.

No they didn't, Crewe were 3-0 up and we came back and won 3-4, and we won the return leg 1-0. A Gavin Peacock masterclass iirc, or was that another game. Great player with great attitude anyway.