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I don’t even think we’re sleepwalking to it now, we’ve opened the door up for Fulham. We’re just really lucky that Allardyce wasn’t able to do his usual rescue job. Still think you're fretting over nothing. Once they add on our points at the end of the season for Bruce being a great bloke we should be OK.

But we do though. This group of players were capable of beating teams like Chelsea, Man City and Man Utd by soaking up the pressure and hitting them on the break under the old manager. Even Brute managed it last season v Man Utd and Chelsea.

Wouldn’t be bothered with a Fulham win if it meant that the bigger picture would be rosier. Relegation has never really been a worry for me anyway. NUFC were a 2nd tier team when I started following them and a lot of my favourite memories of following Newcastle have been as a 2nd Division club. I said in another thread on Sunday that the 92/93 season will always be my favourite season ever. Hand on heart how many people can honestly say they've enjoyed us being a Premier League team under Mike Ashley? I mean I don't don't watch the matches on TV anymore I'm that bored of it!

Looks like the penny has finally dropped amongst a fair few pundits and neutrals now that we are in massive relegation trouble. Always amazes me that the so called experts are always so far behind the rank and file supporters in being able to see this.

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!

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!

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.

And Crystal Palace after that.

Scouse mackems could have went level on points with their big brothers from across the park with a win tonight as well.

I reckon we'd need a maximum of 10 points from the last 15 games to stay up. Cant see Fulham getting to 35 points.

My favourite ever season following NUFC. We'd bought our season tickets at the start of the previous season (91/92) as my dad was certain we were going places with Ossie Ardiles as manager! Obviously Keegan arrived in the February, we stayed up so it was a no brainer to renew. Back then we would park up at the dental hospital about 2pm and as soon as you opened the car doors you could instantly hear the singing coming from the ground as all the terraced areas were already full, I'll never forget that, how the noise carried all that way, how loud it was, and as we were walking to the ground you'd see loads of panicked people sprinting past us desperately hoping they'd still be able to get in! The buzz once inside was something I've never experienced before or since, and sadly even if the takeover goes ahead, it'll never match that. Football, and football fans have changed so much since then sadly. I think it was the Tranmere game when 7,000 were literally locked outside the ground, the Gallowgate was the first to lock the turnstiles and I still remember 1000s of desperate people sprinting past us as we were queuing to get into the East Stand as word had gone round that there was a little bit of space in the Leazes End, so after that every game was made all ticket which diluted the pre match atmosphere a bit as people started to arrive later. The following few seasons were amazing, and yes we had a better team but that 92/93 season, winning our first 11 games, for what it meant to every single NUFC fan and just for the atmosphere inside the ground can't be beaten. Happy 70th King Kev, my all time favourite person ever to be associated with Newcastle United.

When I think back to the way the last manager tried to strike up such a positive relationship with the supporters, which was reciprocated 100%, to this prick who seems determined to do the opposite. He's got a massive dislike of us which is becoming more evident and the feeling is certainly mutual. By far my most hated NUFC manager of all time. It's not even a close run thing.

I was at that one. Atmosphere was unreal! Went back to a little town called Haslingden afterwards and managed to get a lock in. Got back to the Toon about 5am.

The highs and lows of a (shit) football manager eh. One week he's inundated with fan mail and the next week he's getting death threats.

We'll probably lose our next 6 games on the spin and they'll get cold feet!

Glad you’re coming round Wallsend, we’ll all be scrambling to get our season tickets back shortly. Must admit I've always erred on the side of it not happening but I do think there might just be a little glimmer of light there now. However it was even money on either it happening or not and someone gave me £50 to stake on it my money would still be on it not happening. Something's still bound to go wrong!

I'd be surprised if someone as professional as him, and with the reputation he has, is a massive WUM. Just don't see what he'd achieve from that. He'll know something or at least have a massive hunch as to how this is heading.

Bloody hell there was once a time when Sunderland getting beat would really brighten my day and here we are now where I'm at the stage when I didn't even realise they'd played tonight until 5 minutes ago! Still nice that they lost like.

Which is of course the one thing he's been proven to be not.

Well whatever they received a lot of illegal funding and the final ruling from the European Commission stated that "Spain provided State funding to help the clubs gain an unfair advantage over their rivals". Seven clubs in total benefitted from this.

Just had a quick read up about it. Despite being registered as a Limited Company they were paying the same tax rate as a non profit organisation. They got away with this for over 20 years. They were also allowed to buy land to build a new training ground for £15m less than its market value. This was in 1998 so was a massive amount of money back then.

I heard that and he was Implying that proved they weren't legally separate. A government bailout doesn't prove they are of the same entity. The Spanish government bailed out Real Madrid when they were on the verge of going bust many years ago, and I believe its not the first time they have done so, but that doesn't mean the government and Real Madrid are the same entity! No they didn't. [emoji38] They did they bought the ground for millions and gave it back to them didn’t they? I remember they received a massive amount of illegal state subsidies a good few years ago but think they were forced to pay it all back? Firstly, it was the local government that bought the land off them not the actual Spanish government. Secondly they were forced to pay some of it back by the EU in illegal state aid but not the whole transaction. Thirdly, it affected several other clubs. https://www.ft.com/content/750e14a2-3f94-11e6-9f2c-36b487ebd80a So they did receive some illegal state funding then?

I heard that and he was Implying that proved they weren't legally separate. A government bailout doesn't prove they are of the same entity. The Spanish government bailed out Real Madrid when they were on the verge of going bust many years ago, and I believe its not the first time they have done so, but that doesn't mean the government and Real Madrid are the same entity! No they didn't. :lol: They did they bought the ground for millions and gave it back to them didn’t they? I remember they received a massive amount of illegal state subsidies a good few years ago but think they were forced to pay it all back?

It was. He was deeply in the bein camp at the beginning, but has since realised he’s more relevant if he gets NUFC fans hooked on his words. He’s seen the profiles of others such as lawyers, dentists, local journos and QCs go through the roof and wants a bit of it. He's certainly boosted his media profile. I'll be honest this time last year I'd never even heard of him!

Wasn't Ben the one who was leaking most of the info from the PL side on Twitter and been caught out lying about other things? Might not have been him but it rings a bell. He was definitely one of those who came across as dead against the takeover last spring, I definitely remember that.