Keith Barrett on FB;
Looks like they have rained on the parade, turning a celebratory day into another ‘experience’
The ballot road to enjoyment
Telling folk how to celebrate the love of their team
An enjoyment advisory service organised by people who wear suits and false smiles and have never been to Exeter or Shrewsbury
Strangling self expression and spontaneity of Geordie folk who have have promoted enjoyment in the face of adversity for a football life time, just look in any Newcastle Upon Tyne pub on a match day, despite the result on the pitch, Geordie’s are the masters of enjoyment, we probably bloody invented it, but now, we need to be instructed on how to behave celebrating our teams cup triumph
I dunno about you, but I don’t need to be listening to a DJ to enthuse me, telling me ‘to make some noise’ I don’t need modern day ‘tunes’ to fire up my vocal chords, I just need my fellow Geordies to be as one, a few choruses of The Blaydon Races, sang at a proper speed, I need smiles and appreciation of the teams achievement
Just a natural reaction
Just be normal
I don’t want to see Darren Eales cheesy grin pretending he’s been waiting a life time for this day, telling us this is only the beginning
Promising global domination and support from all over the world
It’s now, that’s what it is, and if we never win another trophy again let us enjoy this one, this time, our time, now
Let the Geordie people line the streets with bed sheets and flags and songs, local songs that lift the Geordie heart in celebration of our team, the kids, the not so wealthy, the Grannies and Grandads that can no longer get into the match let alone get their hands on a Wembley ticket, just let the people say thanks to the team that have given us at long last something that we all just dreamed of
The only stage needed is an open top bus rolling slowly through the streets up to St James’s Park amidst a sea of black and white
Don’t give tradition another kick in the bollocks and turn a celebration into a circus or an American style contrived extravaganza
We are not anybody else
We are us
A people with our own identity
We don’t need to be told how to celebrate, we have just realised a lifetimes dream
Leave us alone, we have been alone most of our football lives
And through that trophy less loneliness we have built a togetherness comparable to nothing else like it
Let us get on with our celebration in our own imitable way
Just keep it simple, keep it real, and most of all keep it Geordie
Let the wheels on the bus go around and around ….
