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Tonali goal to cap the evening.

From the phenomenal effort from Wor Flags, filling up at the anthem, through the roars for tackles, the energy and fuck-youed-ness of our glorious team refusing to be overawed. It is Barcelona all over again. Only regret is not being there. Loving this reincarnation as Eddie’s mags.

Howay the lads!

Amongst the like-minded in the Blue Bell?

Perfectly reasonable, Wyn. We have 0.9cm more rain per year in Newcastle, compared to Paris. Yes! A whole 9mm. Put that in your Gauloises and smoke it! You damn precipitation-phobic Frenchies!

Harsh (but not untrue…).

Gameweek 8 Luton 0-2 Spurs Burnley 1-2 Chelsea Everton 1-1 Bournemouth Fulham 1-0 Sheff United Man United 2-1 Brentford Palace 1-2 Forest Brighton 2-4 Liverpool West Ham 1-2 Newcastle Wolves 2-1 Villa Arsenal 1-3 Man City

Not into athletics then?

Ok, my top ten iconic games. No particular order: Newcastle 5-0 Manchester United, 1996. Bitter sweet, partial, revenge for what had happened the previous season, overall and the same fixture, and the Charity Shield debacle. Newcastle 3-2 Barcelona, 1997. Unreal being 2-0 up at half time. Whole occasion was spectacular. Gillespie had a phenomenal game. (Enrique played and scored for them). Chelsea 2-1 FA Semi, 2000—finally saw us score at Wembley. Great occasion and atmosphere. Two of the three most recent cup final defeats (Arsenal 1998, Man Utd 2023). Mainly for the occasion, only really felt confident for the FA Cup against Arsenal. Convinced myself, beyond reason given the relative strength of the teams, that we’d win. Keegan’s first game as a player. Last season, because there were times when I never thought we return to the level we are at. Newcastle 5-1 Tottenham, 2016. I have never felt more proud of our support. Already relegated and the noise, mainly singing Rafa’s name, was continual. Grimsby 0-2 Newcastle, 1993. A third of the crowd and all of the noise from us in Blundell Park to witness Keegan’s team confirming promotion with games to spare. Electric atmosphere, mass pitch invasion. Newcastle 8-0 Sheffield Wednesday, 1999. Robson’s first home game as manager. So moving, in general, but to see Shearer back to his best—five goals—felt so happy for him, like it healed the disrespect shown to him by Gullit. Sunderland 1-2 Newcastle, 1992. 11th win on the trot. Watched this with another three lads amongst the Sunderland fans in the clock stand, mainly sitting on our hands, not in the Fulwell end—where some radgies were openly supporting Newcastle—couldn’t help celebrating O’Briens winning goal though. Escaped unscathed and joyous. Newcastle 1-0 QPR, 1982. Early teens, couldn’t believe he would sign for us. Couldn’t believe he scored and how good he was (plus Waddler and Varadi). Squashed up against the wall of the Gallowgate turnstiles for an hour waiting to get in. Sunny day, cider and bits of bench (!) being launched at the mounted police wading through the dense crowd.

That’s appalling ?

Some top predicting of final scores saved the day, for some. I was kicking myself for going a two goal win margin of 3-1, instead of 2-0 on a couple of mine including the double points game. Plus I’d never have predicted Luton to win both games, but chose the wrong fecking one.

There are many people on here who have been to hundreds more games over the decades, than most (including me). Think I have managed/been lucky to witness first hand some iconic NUFC games over the decades. What would your top ten be? (I’ll try and come up with mine).

Different strokes…. but I like the Bridge Hotel, Castle Garth. Good beer, lots of chatter, and great views out the back (particularly good if you indulge in a tab or two—talking cigarettes here, young folk).

Are you worried about this season @Froggy? I thought you were going to have your worst PL season ever last year but to be fair ETH pulled it around and had a great year, all things considered.

I’m contemplating making a stottie, can’t buy them here, for a flashback corned beef hash and stottie tea! And they say we don’t have haute cuisine ?‍♂️

For you Englisher, the game is over! Can’t confirm but this might help…

Remember having a bite or two there back in the day. Extraordinaire exquis!

Knob heads. On both counts.

Just watched his pre PSG interview. So proud to have him as (sometimes) captain of this club. Great combination of matter of fact confidence and humanity. Top man.

Some great scores in week with a large number of against the odds results. Must have been some juicy 10 pointers getting bagged!

Missed that one. Sounds similar conditions and reasons for not calling it off.

There’s nowt quite as moving, for me, as the impassioned plea of ? Howay the lads, Howay the lads, Howay the lads, HOWAY ? usually when we were losing, obvs.

Yep, old codger brain kicked in ? I’ve corrected the original.

Who was at the 1990 play off against the Makems? A game which ‘we’ as in the idiots who broke the crossbar tried to get called off. And the 2017? Game which definitely should have been cancelled. I was in the Milburn, towards the Leazes. Wettest I have ever been in my life.

Someone mentioned Hotel du vin, but can’t confirm.