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13/20 for me - feel that's one which would have been a lot easier a few years ago. Big turnover of club stalwarts in recent years.

Benfica have won the same amount of European Cups, and have lost 5 finals. Porto have won the only two they've played in, but are admittedly more recent.

It's a simple one - but two fucking relegations.

forgot about that

Our record in the FA Cup. Stevenage 3-1 Newcastle Brighton 1-0 Newcastle Brighton 2-0 Newcastle Oxford 3-0 Newcastle

Derek Llambias: "You guys don’t ­understand how fucking ­horrible we can be"

Ashley apparently being 'furious' after 2011/12 because the Cisse signing had been a waste of £10 million (for not getting us into the Champions League).

Playing Gael Bigirimana right wing in a Europa League quarter final.

The entire stadium re-naming shambles. First changing it to sportsdirect.comSt James[/member] Park Stadium in order to 'showcase' it to potential sponsors. Then changing it to the Sports Direct Arena. Then using its reversion back to St James' Park as a PR move to lessen the outrage over Wonga being our sponsor.

Carver trying to chin our own fans Pardew trying to chin David Meyler

Notting Hill Carnival

Same

It's certainly different if you live in the city as opposed to only visit now and again. When I lived in the West End I went to Leazes Park pretty frequently as it was a natural way to walk into Town.

Appointed 9th April, only just been updated on Companies House today.

Leazes Park is also Grade II listed (oldest park in the city). It's been altered over time but the pond and original layout is more or less as it was originally. The second pond shown on that link was added later and then filled in during the 40s to create the tennis courts. The Alderman Hamond bust located south-west of the pond is also listed at Grade II: This makes any plan to completely reshape very unlikely, and even the one Mr Logic posted unfavourable. Not really. The proposal would have only slightly encroached on the original layout of Leazes Park, and adding to it significantly. As Manorpark posted earlier in the thread: This above would certainly be doable subject to again getting the approval of the Freemen as we had in the 90s.

He didn't sell him technically as he was out of contract. Definitely a fuck up though and an underestimation of Pirlo's remaining career. Once Juve put the likes of Vidal, Pogba and Marchisio around him there was plenty left in the tank.

Yeah. I'd define Rafa's teams as functional rather than negative. The result of hard engrained training regimes and patterns of play. Yes it meant some routine results but it also meant when we got going we could put teams away ruthlessly.

I'd rather have a football stadium with four clear stands than some 'futuristic' Zaha Hadid-esque design which will probably have a bowl interior (like pretty much every other new football ground).

Allegri improved Juve after Conte. Two CL finals. It's easy to forget he also won the title for Milan in 2011 too (their only Scudetto in the last 15 years). He's a very good coach and if he has learned English would be a very good appointment.

It's not a case of whether its physically possible or not. The whole terrace is Grade I listed as a collective, with which the location, setting and historical context is all part of. You can not move it. And nor should you anyway.

No. They're Grade I listed. That's like asking if you can move Durham Cathedral.

You would never have the car park that far away from the ground. It would be needed closer as its to serve officials, players etc. If it's to serve fans I wouldnt even bother with that.

Yeah I think me and Lucas both got good scores last week in part because we got 9 and 10 points respectively from that total goals in Euro 2004 question.

Not TV but I've just realised Next Goal Wins is available and included on Prime. Brilliant football documentary if you haven't already seen it.

Definitely, I’ve expressed the same on here. It’s a lot easier to fuck a match off if it’s on some industrial estate next to an IKEA, rather than the middle of a city centre, 5 mins from loads of bars and a night out Said this for years. So what explains our (certainly when I was still going) extraordinary away support, when clearly the opposite is true, considering our fans have got to travel much further than any others? Away following is a completely different phenomenon and metric of measurement to home support. They are simply not comparable. We'll always have a good away following because we have a core of 5k who will follow us everywhere, and travel anywhere in the country, and a good amount of southern based fans for more distant trips. In terms of home numbers, you can undoubtedly attribute thousands who turn up simply because it's part of a weekend routine of drinking. Once you move that out of the city and make it more than a 10 minute walk from bars, loads of casual support will simply not bother, certainly during tougher times anyway.