Chris_R

I'm a massive geek. Anything to do with science, space, computers, I'm all over it.

Love the weird boast about being too 'adult' to play video games. I'm 47 and play loads of them. You're never too old to have fun.

I love a drink as much (more?!) than most, certainly more than is healthy. But I don't think I've ever, ever been drunk at a football match. I have on rare occasion had one drink beforehand if meeting mates, but just can't comprehend why people either need or want to watch a match whilst pissed, or can't go 90 minutes without a beer. I just don't get it. Clearly it's just me as the culture is so deeply ingrained, but I'm there to watch (and remember!) the match, if I want to get drunk that's a separate event.

Can't see anyone touching Rashford. Maybe on a loan where they pay £70k/week max, but anything more than that is crazy. He'll see out every minute of that contract he's got.

I think that's what I said?

Not quite. Despite being taller than Shearer and especially Ferdinand, he's not anywhere near as good in the air as those two were. They'd smash headers in, going straight through the defender to get the ball. Absolute monsters in the air, Sir Les especially was the best I've seen and Shearer not far behind. Isak's decent, but he's nowhere near world class aerially.

He hasn't gone away, he just started writing a reply 6 months ago and is still writing it.

If the consensus is that that's well-known, fair enough. Personally I've never heard that said before. If we go back far enough, maybe someone said it about someone else before Kante, these things go round in cycles. There's only so many words and so many orders to put them in, very little is truly original.

Get that on a banner

Beresford was great, excellent fullback both offensively and defensively. Barton was OK, got stick at the time but it was a long time before we had a better right-back than him again if you look at the list that followed him. Peacock took a little while to convince me but he was solid too, very dependable. Shaka was a bit of a liability though, he never gave me any confidence. Pav was erratic, sure, and every single time he dropped his shoulder on an attacker I was convinced he was going to get caught but he never once did and nearly always left them sat on their arse as he strolled off up the pitch. Actually reckon with his footwork and shot stopping he'd be a very good keeper today.

I'll always love Miggy, that patch where he was banging them in was great fun and he always plays with a smile. Great lad. Delighted we're actually selling someone for money though, for far too long have we just let people drift away on frees. Need to be more proactive like this.

Ah, OK, that makes more sense. Fine then, by those rules why are we not talking about Keegan's 13 consecutive wins in the Championship then? 11 of them were in the "PL era", 1992-93 season, so at least they should count? I'll accept Keegan's record of 9 alone, or I'll accept Keegan's record of 11, or even his record of 13, but there's no grounds to say the record is 9 tied between Keegan and Benitez because if Championship games are allowed then the record is no longer 9.

There's some decent players in the Keegan team but by god that Benitez team is shite. Getting 9 wins all season with that would be some achievement. Fucking hell. Edit: As has been pointed out, Benitez's wins were in the Championship which makes that a little less incredulous.

Without Keegan, there genuinely might not be a Newcastle United.

This. Eddie stopped us getting relegated to the Championship and got us to 4th. Keegan stopped us getting relegated to L1 (And likely folding) and got us 2nd in the Prem, and within a whisker of a title. And by god did we play some amazing stuff under him. I love Eddie, and there's no present manager I'd rather have in the here and now to take us forward. But Keegan is still number 1 for me.