Benwell Lad

Liverpool make that break at the end he lets it go on to a conclusion for sure. Madleys should be nowhere near Newcastle matches anyway, so many strange decisions against us, the worst of all probably the Colo sending off and penalty by the elder one.

Winnable tie for the Heed if they see off Hednesford, though they are past masters of screwing up when expected to win. Watched Morpeth vs Whitby on Saturday and got to say, having watched every NUFC game this season except Everton, and quite a few non league games, it was the best game I've watched so far. Non stop end to end, loads of chances and goalmouth action, always on a knife edge and great energy from both sets of players. Decent crowd too considering Craik's out of the way location.

Was it really eleven years? That is amazing, and all it took to end that total domination was Harry Kane

Crazy to think a club from a village of about 3,000 people have become an established Liga 1 club while Dusseldorf, HSV, Koln, Hertha, Nurnberg, Kaiserslautem and Schalke are all in Liga 2.

Hoffenheim are definitely the most despised club in Germany due to their rise from village club to Bundesliga and they do get a lot of stick for it.

You make some decent points from an interesting perspective but they have to be replied to. It's far from a bastion of perfection but generally a lot less sanitised than the PL and, whatever the ownership model may be, fans definitely feel more a part of and closer to their clubs. Truth is a lot of football fans prefer "sanitised" so it depends on what you like. Yes Bayern dominate, but not entirely, Leverkusen won the league last season with a 30K stadium. Yeah, total fan ownership could never happen nowadays, though they have a degree of power in decision making. A lot of season tickets are very affordable to all, one off tickets maybe not so much. I'm fortunate that the ground I have been to most is right in the city centre and as close to the SJP matchday atmosphere as you'll find anywhere.

The quality of the Bundesliga, the stadiums, atmosphere and general fan experience never cease to amaze. Drink beer, smoke tabs and plastic season tickets which can be freely passed on still the norm. Couple of interesting (or maybe not) snippets. Jonas Wind Wolfburg's Danish player has now scored 3 consecutive penalties by getting the rebound after the keeper parried and some weeks the second division attendances aggregate higher than then the top league. Just about everything still sells out but the 2 Liga now has some of Germany's biggest clubs in it, regularly selling out with crowds of 50+ and even 60+K attendances while a few smaller, traditionally second or third tier clubs, have been promoted to 1 Liga.

I'd struggle to remember a PL game where we we made more individual errors or more bad decisions on the ball than today. Shame because parts of our game weren't bad and we certainly had chances.

Deserves all the flak he's getting for today's defeat. He gets enough when we win so deserves even more today.

I have many Spanish speaking friends who I would say speak excellent English. However using "waxing lyrical" takes it to another level

10/10 for retention. 3/10 for recruitment, Kelly was a good acquisition and we now have a third senior striker. I'd have given it 2/10 if we'd paid 70m for Guehi and given ourselves an even tighter FFP straight jacket going forward. The essential thing now is to keep the squad we have fit and not end up playing the only 11 fit players for weeks on end like last season. Also we need to have harmony at the top of management between playing, recruitment and commercial. Howe did sound happier in his latest press conference, albeit like most of us a bit frustrated regarding incomings. He made a point about a really good window is getting the right players in who improve you and a really bad one is getting the wrong players in who don't. On that basis it was a neutral window I guess, but certainly nowhere near as bad as some are saying and the press narrative wants to push.

Needed to spin it with the outside of his right foot Tino Asprilla style at Liverpool away in the (second?) 4-3 game

I remember many years ago being in a micropub on Poole Harbour, 'Arry was an occasional visitor I was told, and the barman showed me a betting slip at understandably crazy odds, that he'd just placed for Eddie Howe to get the England job at some time. AFCB were in the third or fourth division at the time. FWIW I really like your little stadium and it's a great away day down there.

Saints taken the full 3,200 allocation. That's got to be a first.

Some of the latest posts on this thread are probably the most depressing I've read on here. We simply can't allow racist scum to stop decent people enjoying a Saturday in Newcastle. The behaviour of the rioters that I've seen is absolutely cowardly, North East people are very proud of our city, and they may just get quite a shock if they upset the vast majority of decent people.

I watched the game on Saturday, playing surface was in great condition. Alnwick will struggle but hopefully do enough to survive, SJP deserves NL football. The equaliser was careless, they didn't manage the end of the game well. That said they won't be whipping boys like some poor teams at the foot of NL2 have been in recent seasons. They work hard and had decent spirit but lack the bit of quality up front which could turn draws into wins and defeats into draws.

And "marra" is often used in, especially former mining parts of, north Durham and south Northumberland which are predominantly Newcastle supporting areas. It's not really a Sunderland thing as many suppose it to be.

Must be hell in the multi cultural melting pot that is Wynyard, what with illegal immigrants taking over all the mansions and everything. Also read in the Fail that Sadiq Khan will introduce sharia law in Billingham if he gets another term as mayor.

He was 17 when he made his debut for them, it was on MOTD that night I think. Two other kids from the NE went down to West Brom at the same time as him. One was getting an occasional run out in the reserves when Donaghy made his debut. John Trewick. One was considered too small and not even in the reserves but they thought he had a great attitude. Bryan Robson. Just shows how things can turn around in football.

Him, his brothers, and both his parents' families are all diehard Newcastle fans, home and away, and always have been, even through the (mainly) bad times. He genuinely is "one of our own".

Sunderland have had some very good players, including defenders who probably deserved legendary status like Dave Watson and Colin Todd. Difficult to understand why it was a pretty average , renowned clogger who captured their imagination ? I wonder why ?

We (Newcastle) have achieved some incredible results this season in very difficult circumstances but the success story of north east football is undoubtedly Gateshead so the entire NE football community should get behind them. So the EFL were really upset at decisions made about their clubs in the FA Cup, but then they go and do this to a brilliant football club who perpetually have to fight against the odds.

In the adversity of an injury crisis really enjoy a Ritchie 90th minute substitute appearance. Great bloke. Great pro.

They hound managers out even quicker and more often than Tory MPs hound their leaders out.

Hadn't trained this week because he was receiving treatment after that tackle by the SMB who thought he could endear himself to the crowd by hurting a real footballer. In an ideal world he'd be getting 15 to 20 minutes at the end of a game to build up his experience, as it is he's playing a full 90 not having trained all week. Considering he could have been playing for the U18's this morning I think putting in a pretty decent shift against the best team in the world says it all really.