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To be fair it was a pretty decent block from the WBA defender

Same except the match appears to be around 30 years before everything else. Our football in 1991 was better than this Christ that was my mid-teens. Watching it now it looks like it’s from the 1950’s

Shelvey being more shit than the usual Shelvey

Big Joe looks like he’s on steroids here

There’s a Trump/Merson/Keys pisstape somewhere

Aye. I'd be surprised if there were any sports scientists at this fucking club. It'll just be big Derek with his magic sponge.

I like to bet that no player called Ferguson a coward after being hung out to dry on national TV

10 seconds man

Ritchie shit himself according to Luke/bacon

It was always going to happen the way Edwards goes on, there’s plenty of tools out there. I’ve got no problem with him backing Bruce but he’s literally been goading the fans over it to the point it’s ridiculous. Do that and you’ve got to expect to attract a nugget eventually.

NSCL or NCSL or whatever? Seen it

That stupid takeover/arbitration account has liked some “threat” to Edwards, so that’s all you’ll hear now. What’s the fucking point in this shite now. Couldn’t care less any more

I mean, they needed two key players to be injured this weekend to be worried about being relegated

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You absolutely know just how depressingly right he is there

Classic Bruce though. Doesn't want to make the hard decisions so let's things grab on and then hang the player out to dry, which he's already started doing

I remember being strangely fascinated by that season, it was Ardiles as manager right? It was weird because he was not only trying to bring that diamond formation to Newcastle but he was doing it with kids. I actually really admired what he was trying to do, but it was suicidal to do it with YTS kids and unheard of signings....who were also kids. Yeah it was. To be fair to Ardiles, Smith had spent a fair bit before him and failed, Aediles didnt have a lot to play with. Alan Thompson came through that season, I think there was one or two others who were canny as well. He also signed a couple of forwards who were quite pacy but crap but can't for the life of me remember the names. Gary Brazil maybe, although not sure if that was a Smith signing, but there was another one who's name escapes me. Yeah he did, along with Clark, Watson and Elliott if I remember correctly. Brazil was under Smith, 89ish. Played about 40 games and scored 2-3 goals

I remember being strangely fascinated by that season, it was Ardiles as manager right? It was weird because he was not only trying to bring that diamond formation to Newcastle but he was doing it with kids. I actually really admired what he was trying to do, but it was suicidal to do it with YTS kids and unheard of signings....who were also kids. Yeah it was. To be fair to Ardiles, Smith had spent a fair bit before him and failed, Aediles didnt have a lot to play with.

That day was amazing, the tension in the ground was something I’ve never experienced again

Was the Anglo-Italian mind. Got a lift to it by a mates dad and he was bit keen that we got out early to avoid the rush, pulled a pretend toilet trip and snook back in to catch Mickey Quinn's goal. Later honed the technique to skive whole lessons at school and kill time at work. Few weeks later my art-teacher tutor mocked up a laminated black and white birthday card with Keegan's face superimposed on a figure. Probably the material possession I've had and lost that I most miss now. Gonna watch the Bristol City home-coming match this week. It really was a genuinely messianic feeling that week and that game to a kid just felt like something massive was happening the afternoon after I heard the news and all week. I went to every home game that season including the Anglo Italian Cup games. We played Leicester, Ascoli and Cesena at home in the competition. Ascoli game was mental. David Kelly got sent off for King fu kicking one of their players and I somehow ended up on the pitch during all the chaos immediately after that. Only 9k or so there but it just went crazy. The Cesena match I remember because I took an inflatable hammer with me for some reason and it was confiscated at the turnstile. Was the lowest crowd I've ever been in at SJP (circ 4,600) and I remember a cat just strolling around an almost deserted Gallowgate end during the 2nd half. Pretty sure we played Grimsby in the AI cup as well? Seem to remember being there and sitting down in the away end with fish and chips and Quinny playing. Few months later in May you couldn’t move. The Leazes wing of the Milburn Stand was the place to be back then. Full of absolute nutcases but they narve made a hell of a racket! It was great in there back then. IIRC in KKs playing days the away fans would be in the end section of the Leazes, on the other side of the vehicle access bit? Sure i can remember a particularly lively atmosphere v Leeds one day. Think we won 2-1. I later got my 1st S/T in the Milburn centre paddock when Ossie was in charge, Around 1991. Not sure if there still was an East and centre paddock by then or it had been made into one big paddock? Back in 1991 the Milburn Paddocks were lettered from A to E. A and B were towards the Gallowgate End and D and E were the other side of the players tunnel towards the Leazes End. C Paddock straddled either side of the tunnel I think. Then the Leazes End was split into 3 Paddocks ( F, G and H, away fans were allocated H Paddock by 1991) and then the Gallowgate was 4 Paddocks (J which was "the corner", K which was "the Scoreboard", L and M, M was known as "the old man's corner"). It was a dump tbh but I just loved the place! Yeah, season ticket in 1991 in D paddock was 56 quid. Pretty sure A and E were general admission

I don’t understand why he needed to wait until half time to change things against an obvious threat

TBH I’m not sure why you’d expect anything different, its the same shit every game

Shame he’s still not a journo