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The latest installment highlighting what a truly magnificent support Tottenham Hotspur have. Before anyone says "it's New Years Day", so F***! We had more at Southend (pre-Keegan) on NYD 1992, I know that for a fact because I was there....oh aye and we lost 4-0. Newcastle upon Tyne - Portsmouth 339.6 miles London - Portsmouth 74.4 miles I was at Portsmouth last year, bought a ticket off Rosstoon, who uses this board to verify it, it was at the height of Souness' shite football, and as I recall it was one of the most blunt toon attacking performances for many a year. Despite how dire we had been, we sold our full allocation of 3,000 tickets, speaking to some Pompey mush he said he couldn't believe how we can take more than the London clubs who are just up the road despite us being shite. There's a Man City pal of mine who often says yeah you sell out down London because of "Southern Mags". Why don't these gobshites make up their minds, on one hand you people (particularly irrelevant Tottenham and Scouser fans) saying, only people from the NE support us, the next they're saying we have good southern support which is why we fill our allocations down there. Either way contrast that 3,000 with this pathetic 1,600 allocation Spurs are taking, in a good run of form just 70 miles away. You could probably do it in an hour by car. That's not much more than us going to Boro. Imagine Spurs bringing 5,000 to Sunderland on a Wednesday night in the League Cup, because we've just done the opposite down at Watford. It doesn't matter what spin you put on it, Newcastle have a fantastic support, we get abused left right and centre off jealous wanks, from lesser clubs like Man City, Spurs, and Villa. In closing my conclusion is Tottenham Hotspur will always be a nothing club. Comparing Tottenham's support to our support, is like comparing, those pathetic gay Noonan brothers (Manchester's top gangsters ) to the KGB in it's peak. The allocation of 1658 isn't what Spurs wanted, it was the maximum that Pompey offered due to police not being available after New Years Celebration shifts. The same scenario has occurred with the Cup match at Cardiff, we haven't been offered what we wanted. From the Cardiff City Official website: Although the rules of The FA Cup competition entitle us to an allocation of 15% of the stadium capacity, it is not possible for Cardiff City to accommodate this without the Club having to completely reverse their usual plans for access, segregation and exit from the Stadium. Understandably, for such a high profile match, stadium security plans quite rightly take priority and in the interests of safety and security for fans from both Clubs and given the match is live on television, we have agreed to follow Police advice. Unfortunately, I can't comment on the Noonan Brothers, as I have no knowledge of them whatsoever. You obviously have a far more select circle of acquaintances than others. PMSL :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: Funny then how Norwich and Wolves' took their full allocation of 3,000 at Fratton in 2003/2004 and 2004/2005 respectively at Nea Year (yes I know they were on a one season jolly up), the police not bother going on the piss the night before then? The allocation is what we are offered, not what we want or what others might have received in the past (assuming your figures are correct). Pompey offered 1658 tickets, Spurs have taken the full allocation. Not rocket science to work that out. Tottenham are entitled to 3,000 tickets under FA regulations, therefore it is the obligation of the home club to offer 3,000 to the away team. Norwich and Wolves were offered 3,000 and so were Spurs. Squirm, squirm, squirm...... Waits for the Man City excuse as well... "Ricky Hatton fight on that night police resources strecthed.......blah blah fuckin blah....." YOUR SUPPORT IS FUCKIN SHIT

Ruel Fox wasn't crap you idiot. That season we won 6 in a row at the start, he was absolutely class. I can't honestly for the life of me understand why we let him go. Not once did he let the toon down, in fact he was a fuckin good player. Remember that game when Acuna and JAMIE MCCLEN, were up against Vieira and Edu, and they never got a kick. Acuna was world class that night, and he I think he suffered because of Robson's love of Gary Speed. My favourite crap Newcastle player, people will debate whether he was crap, but he was, it's Warren Barton. His technical limitations would make Andy Griffin look like Cafu in those stakes, but he had the heart of an absolute lion, he took loads of stick, but he battled through, and he got the fans on side at the end because he showed how committed he was and how much he loved the toon every time he pulled on the shirt.

The latest installment highlighting what a truly magnificent support Tottenham Hotspur have. Before anyone says "it's New Years Day", so F***! We had more at Southend (pre-Keegan) on NYD 1992, I know that for a fact because I was there....oh aye and we lost 4-0. Newcastle upon Tyne - Portsmouth 339.6 miles London - Portsmouth 74.4 miles I was at Portsmouth last year, bought a ticket off Rosstoon, who uses this board to verify it, it was at the height of Souness' shite football, and as I recall it was one of the most blunt toon attacking performances for many a year. Despite how dire we had been, we sold our full allocation of 3,000 tickets, speaking to some Pompey mush he said he couldn't believe how we can take more than the London clubs who are just up the road despite us being shite. There's a Man City pal of mine who often says yeah you sell out down London because of "Southern Mags". Why don't these gobshites make up their minds, on one hand you people (particularly irrelevant Tottenham and Scouser fans) saying, only people from the NE support us, the next they're saying we have good southern support which is why we fill our allocations down there. Either way contrast that 3,000 with this pathetic 1,600 allocation Spurs are taking, in a good run of form just 70 miles away. You could probably do it in an hour by car. That's not much more than us going to Boro. Imagine Spurs bringing 5,000 to Sunderland on a Wednesday night in the League Cup, because we've just done the opposite down at Watford. It doesn't matter what spin you put on it, Newcastle have a fantastic support, we get abused left right and centre off jealous wanks, from lesser clubs like Man City, Spurs, and Villa. In closing my conclusion is Tottenham Hotspur will always be a nothing club. Comparing Tottenham's support to our support, is like comparing, those pathetic gay Noonan brothers (Manchester's top gangsters ) to the KGB in it's peak. The allocation of 1658 isn't what Spurs wanted, it was the maximum that Pompey offered due to police not being available after New Years Celebration shifts. The same scenario has occurred with the Cup match at Cardiff, we haven't been offered what we wanted. From the Cardiff City Official website: Although the rules of The FA Cup competition entitle us to an allocation of 15% of the stadium capacity, it is not possible for Cardiff City to accommodate this without the Club having to completely reverse their usual plans for access, segregation and exit from the Stadium. Understandably, for such a high profile match, stadium security plans quite rightly take priority and in the interests of safety and security for fans from both Clubs and given the match is live on television, we have agreed to follow Police advice. Unfortunately, I can't comment on the Noonan Brothers, as I have no knowledge of them whatsoever. You obviously have a far more select circle of acquaintances than others. PMSL :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: Funny then how Norwich and Wolves' took their full allocation of 3,000 at Fratton in 2003/2004 and 2004/2005 respectively at Nea Year (yes I know they were on a one season jolly up), the police not bother going on the piss the night before then?

He was never a favourite here. When he first came people used to get right on his backs. My opinion of him was he was a good grafter, but his passing was always shite. However when he left it was the classic case of "you don't know how much you'll miss someone till they're not there.". When he left there was a gaping hole in our midfield, which Bowyer and Jenas struggled to fill. A magnificent achievement for the ultimate professional. Well done Gary.

I'd have Bin Laden bankrolling us, with a starting eleven of Shay plus 10 al quaida, if I thought we could win something. I don't care who owns us as long as we see an improvement.

The latest installment highlighting what a truly magnificent support Tottenham Hotspur have. Before anyone says "it's New Years Day", so F***! We had more at Southend (pre-Keegan) on NYD 1992, I know that for a fact because I was there....oh aye and we lost 4-0. Newcastle upon Tyne - Portsmouth 339.6 miles London - Portsmouth 74.4 miles I was at Portsmouth last year, bought a ticket off Rosstoon, who uses this board to verify it, it was at the height of Souness' shite football, and as I recall it was one of the most blunt toon attacking performances for many a year. Despite how dire we had been, we sold our full allocation of 3,000 tickets, speaking to some Pompey mush he said he couldn't believe how we can take more than the London clubs who are just up the road despite us being shite. There's a Man City pal of mine who often says yeah you sell out down London because of "Southern Mags". Why don't these gobshites make up their minds, on one hand you people (particularly irrelevant Tottenham and Scouser fans) saying, only people from the NE support us, the next they're saying we have good southern support which is why we fill our allocations down there. Either way contrast that 3,000 with this pathetic 1,600 allocation Spurs are taking, in a good run of form just 70 miles away. You could probably do it in an hour by car. That's not much more than us going to Boro. Imagine Spurs bringing 5,000 to Sunderland on a Wednesday night in the League Cup, because we've just done the opposite down at Watford. It doesn't matter what spin you put on it, Newcastle have a fantastic support, we get abused left right and centre off jealous wanks, from lesser clubs like Man City, Spurs, and Villa. In closing my conclusion is Tottenham Hotspur will always be a nothing club. Comparing Tottenham's support to our support, is like comparing, those pathetic gay Noonan brothers (Manchester's top gangsters ) to the KGB in it's peak.

Celtic have three votes bluebigeek.gif I would rate Newcastle's chances of winning the UEFA Cup at 20 times higher than Celtic winning the CL. I think Chelsea will win it this season have done since the start of the season. I also think the nightmare which occurred in 2005 has a decent chance of happening again. Forget about their league for, no one is mentioning them as potential winners, but they have a better first 11, and a much better squad than they did in 2005. In the same way Newcastle is cursed as a club, in equal measure retrospectively, Liverpool have copious amounts of luck. There isn't, and never will be a luckier club than them, and they could do it.

80% of this message board. Read the official match thread when we went 2-1 down, "Roeder worse the Lawrie Mac" etc... wanks Relegation would get rid of a large proportion of wanks.

"Kebab and chips please?"

Making me look a complete joke? You're a mong of Michael Carroll proportions pal. You abuse the toon for getting 48,000, yet one week later Boro end sold out and there's 2,000 empty seats in the Spurs end, in their best home form in 20 years. Honest mate just go away you're shit, and you're using up bandwidth on here. Does lying just come naturally to you? Boro did not even nearly sell out there allocation you drunken hooligan. Quit lying its unhealthy. Returned 1183 to be exact. Having said that, there were still a few empties in east upper and west lower. What Newcastle fans can never wrap their heads around is the fact that our tickets cost about half as much again for some matches, twice as much in others. My ticket last night cost £42, to watch Newcastle at WHL costs £71. If the ticket prices at SJP were doubled, I wonder how many empty seats there would be then? Here lad, wrap your head around this: Fuck right off. It's all ifs and buts. "But if you had more than one club in your city." "But if you doubled the price of the tickets." In the absence of either of these things happening, just accept the facts before you and stop whining on with your excuses like a big f***ing tart. :thup:

I honestly couldn't give a shit. I'll be there and that's all I personally can control. I don't particularly want to go though so I can understand anyone that doesn't already have a ticket paid for deciding not to go. I'm not even interested in these attendance arguments but when you've got two Spurs-supporting arseholes - one who didn't even bother with the match last night, and one who comes on here telling us what we can and can't "wrap our heads round" wittering on about them, then I'll certainly respond. And to think people have been banned for having a go at this Jol character ffs. Deserves everything he gets tbh. :thup: :thup: :thup: :thup: :thup: :thup:

Making me look a complete joke? You're a mong of Michael Carroll proportions pal. You abuse the toon for getting 48,000, yet one week later Boro end sold out and there's 2,000 empty seats in the Spurs end, in their best home form in 20 years. Honest mate just go away you're shit, and you're using up bandwidth on here. Does lying just come naturally to you? Boro did not even nearly sell out there allocation you drunken hooligan. Quit lying its unhealthy. Returned 1183 to be exact. Having said that, there were still a few empties in east upper and west lower. What Newcastle fans can never wrap their heads around is the fact that our tickets cost about half as much again for some matches, twice as much in others. My ticket last night cost £42, to watch Newcastle at WHL costs £71. If the ticket prices at SJP were doubled, I wonder how many empty seats there would be then? Conveniently the most expensive tickets in the ground. The Sports Bar and Platinum here are over £50 regardless of the opposition. Clubs like us don't have to categorise games. The Boro game was Category C, £42 MOST expensive ticket in the ground, 80% of the tickets under £35, and you still have 2,000 empty seats, with some tickets £14 yes FOURTEEN. You're a nothing club mate, the mackems are bigger than you, deal with it. You have your arselickers on here, but you talk utter pish, and all of this in your best home run in years. YSIFS http://www.tottenhamhotspur.com/tickets/ticketinfo_prices.html I notice that we are a Category A game, see if we were to do this small time categorising thing, you'd be in Cat C without a doubt.

I've got us 12th on 25 points on Jan 1st 1 point above Spurs

Roman Bednar would do well here I think By the way I think you have the best non-toon song in football. "Away up in Gorgie at Tynecastle Park................................................."

It gets better from the official Spurs site: Any reasonably big club would request the 3,000 with the game not on TV. YSIFS

Making me look a complete joke? You're a mong of Michael Carroll proportions pal. You abuse the toon for getting 48,000, yet one week later Boro end sold out and there's 2,000 empty seats in the Spurs end, in their best home form in 20 years. Honest mate just go away you're shit, and you're using up bandwidth on here.

Yes please. But where are you going to find one? I hear they've been in short supply up your way for a while. *gets coat* :lol: :lol:. I see stevie's still losing. I'm still losing what you boring boring bastard?

yea but we still get a lot more people than them in our ground On the basis that it holds more, thats it! "On the basis it holds more" dear me?!?!?!!? They never filled their little 36,000 unless they were playing us, Man Utd or Arsenal up till 2004! Fact is Spurs can't even fill 36,000 for a League game half the time, they'd have as many empty seats as Man City with our capacity, and every Spurs fan on earth knows that in their hearts. oh is that right?? well can you explain this then you lying power ranger http://stats.football365.com/dom/ENG/PR/attend.html Team Pld Total Highest Average Capacity Pct 1 Arsenal (3) 8 480290 60115 60036 60432 99.3% 2 Manchester United (1) 8 605330 76004 75666 76212 99.2% 3 Reading (6) 8 191833 24110 23979 24225 98.9% 4 Chelsea (2) 7 292670 41953 41810 42294 98.8% 5 West Ham United (17) 7 242642 35000 34663 35303 98.1% 6 Tottenham Hotspur (10) 8 284612 36162 35577 36237 98.1% 7 Portsmouth (4) 8 157767 20146 19721 20328 97.0% 8 Liverpool (5) 8 350661 44330 43833 45362 96.6% 9 Sheffield United (16) 8 237940 32584 29743 30864 96.3% 10 Fulham (12) 8 173782 24510 21723 22602 96.1% 11 Newcastle United (18) 7 347759 51569 49680 52387 94.8% 12 Watford (20) 7 131897 19660 18842 19920 94.5% 13 Charlton Athletic (19) 8 204840 27011 25605 27113 94.4% 14 Everton (7) 8 296723 40004 37090 40394 91.8% 15 Bolton Wanderers (9) 8 186716 27229 23340 28101 83.0% 16 Manchester City (11) 8 310160 42192 38770 47500 81.6% 17 Aston Villa (8) 8 274828 42551 34354 42551 80.7% 18 Middlesbrough (15) 8 224767 31424 28096 35041 80.1% 19 Wigan Athletic (13) 7 124977 22089 17854 25138 71.0% 20 Blackburn Rovers (14) 8 166381 27662 20798 31154 66.7% will post up last seasons attendences as soon as i get them. To him you're 17 and Soccer AM is your favourite show. To the brummie do you want a medal?

yea but we still get a lot more people than them in our ground On the basis that it holds more, thats it! "On the basis it holds more" dear me?!?!?!!? They never filled their little 36,000 unless they were playing us, Man Utd or Arsenal up till 2004! Fact is Spurs can't even fill 36,000 for a League game half the time, they'd have as many empty seats as Man City with our capacity, and every Spurs fan on earth knows that in their hearts.

The MURDERERS are playing a few kids tonight, but Galatasaray are pure shite, and I feel 13/8 is excellent value. Tonight's team is from: Dudek, Agger, Riise, Alonso, Crouch, Fowler, Pennant, Bellamy, Kuyt, Carragher, Paletta, Garcia, Guthrie, Peltier, Darby, Martin, Anderson, Roque. Many believe with nearly £1m at stake, they'll start with a strong line up including, Bellamy, Carragher, Riise, Alonso, Dudek, Garcia and Agger, which to say they haven't even conceded a goal in 400 minutes of football, should be far too strong for a Gala side pissed on by Bordeaux the other week, apparently 3-1 flattered GS. SPORTING LISBON are formidable at home, they only need a draw to go through, and having watched them a few times already this season they can count themselves unlucky only to be fighting for a UEFA spot. They were better than Bayern, but lost to a 50 yard freak shot from Schweinsteiger, and also deservedly beat Inter (currently pissing Serie A). Russians are generally shite away, although CSKA did cause a shock in Lisbon a few years ago, I think given the NEED to win 8/13 for Sporting is excellent. Bournemouth have so many injuries, they haven't won since 9th September and are facing a Forest team who have won 5 of the last 6 in the league. I've been stung a few times by Forest this season none more so than Sunday, but that was the FA Cup, Salisbury aren't used to losing, the weather and pitch were shite etc... while Bournemouth are so low on confidence and are seen by many as relegation certainties - NOTTINGHAM FOREST 10/11 absolute steal. DONCASTER play away at Brentford tonight and while they're not pulling up any trees they've only lost one game since September. This fixture was played a few weeks ago before Leroy Rosenior was sacked and Doncaster won 1-0. You have to go back to October 24th since the bees even scored a goal, 6 weeks, which is an unbelievable stat considering how unlucky they were to miss out on automatic promotion last season, but stats speak for themselves. With Callum Willock (who I'm reliably informed is utter shite anyway) and Lloyd Owusu out in the long run, Brentford find themselves struggling for goals. The side are playing with no confidence and what would've been a formality last season could easily turn out to be another home defeat this evening. 11/8 £5 accumulator pays £96.13 My bet the neet

3 toon pictures in that piece :thup: 30 seconds Liam O'Brien 2-1 against the SMB. 40 seconds Toon fan at Joker again 91/92 or 92/93 45 seconds toon fans at Portman Road 91/92, they went up as champions and we played class but ended up losing 3-2, only about the fifth away of my life that. It's slightly sad looking back on that, but what's happened to football isn't all bad. If Hillsborough hadn't have happened, I think English football would still have improved and flourished. The way SKY dominated from 92 would've happened despite of Hillsborough rather than because of it in my opinion. The only difference I feel is that we'd still be allowed to stand. There was nothing better than the whole Gallowgate doing the Blaydon Races, from a distance everyone surging forward looked scary, but in amongst it, it was great. Borussia Dortmund can convert their 59,000 seat capacity stadium, in to 82,000 by allowing 40,000 standing spaces at either end, if they can do it why can't we. It would correct a lot of ills with the game, Tyneside is a vibrant place in 2006, but there's still poverty, and I'm sure many fathers would love to be able to take their kids to the match, standing would be an affordable alternative while increasing the atmosphere, and allowing as many as maybe 70,000+ to see the big games at St James' Park. The FA needs to fuckin go over to Germany and see how succesful it is there.

Only 48,000 live on SKY, awkward kick off time, just 1,000 away fans, yet Spurs in their best run of home performances in years, have 2,000 tickets on general sale for Boro in the League in their tiny ground tonight. Pathetic cunts. SMALL CLUB.

Micky mouse club always will be. Still it's 1,600 more than they brought here on this occasion: Newcastle United 6 Tottenham Hotspur 1 Date: 22nd December 1999 7.45pm. Sunderland are at least as big as Spurs to be honest.

Couldn't disagree. Poor observation by me on this part. That's a first. Did anyone notice Iain Dowie's tie tonight? He might as well have had a tiger t shirt on with a picture of the humber bridge behind, can't think of anything else Hull related apart from ugly people and easy lasses. Iain Dowie blatantly new Hull manager.

Who the F*** would buy my book Nobby? I'm nee Jilly Cooper. Having said this lad from Ponteland did one, I thought he came across as a stuck up nobhead in the book, but at least he took the time to write it. However it's enjoyable typing it out even on here, and I just thought it might jog other peoples memories about the season too, and we could all romanticise about how good it was (really it was pretty shit). Part 2 on Friday. Its a good, enjoyable read with great sentiment. It shows it is not the ins and outs of what happens on the pitch as much as the ins and outs off it. Keep up the good work. Perhaps admin might turn it into a strand for the main site??? Cheers Toonbarmy Apologies that part 2's not done yet, I've been on the drink last two days and couldn't be arsed.