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Radio Newcastle reckons he was in his own half so not offside

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1-0 Isak \o/

It's not absurd in the least though, in the context of him being contracted and therefore him leaving to strengthen a direct rival would be counterproductive to the people who gave him that contract. It's a fucking stupid thing to say, monumentally naive at best and just outright duplicitous at worst.

Aye, sorry, should also have said that hashtag were an entirely different proposition

Hard to believe that Manchester United have found, against the odds, a way to become even less palatable but aye, bloke seems like a complete penis

Aye, I think I'll get there early in case my usual spot disappears. I hope the big crowd doesn't cause them to freeze again I can't imagine Huddersfield putting up much more than token resistance but then I felt the same about the #lasses Should be fucking class

That'll mean people having to go on the terrace behind the goals I guess?

Wew, that's pretty amazing

Common sense, hopefully other leagues follow. Alnwick got three fixtures a week and they're still getting postponed.

Aye it is. RIP you daft fucker didn't love the football or the times but I never blamed him for taking his chances

Might even have to consider a season ticket next year, I can't imagine it'll be shockingly expensive, and I'm hopelessly addicted to nonleague Saturday and toon lasses Sunday. I'm not sure I'm even that bothered about the men's team any more

Just bought my ticket in advance for the first time, main stand was getting on for full last time so didn't want to miss out.

Aye, I was wondering about that myself. Seemed a bit unexpected at the time and now hasn't happened? It's not a great look

Yeah, I should have said I routinely get up at half four to drive to Scotland so travelling is largely not an issue Thanks man, looks class

@Groundhog63 Was more devastating that lamb and mint, and smoked ham and pickle, were discontinued before beef and mustard. Literally retained the worst one, no wonder they ultimately disappeared

If any of you non league attenders ever go to a ground which is particularly interesting, by the way, I would appreciate an @ heads up - I'm enjoying photographing non league but more from a ground ambience and crowds perspective than documenting the game. Not so much fenced in 3G pitches surrounded by houses, but anywhere which is a bit old or historical or is overlooked by something impressive or unusual (I'm checking to see if there's any pitches anywhere near the steelworks on Teesside, by way of example) Cheers in advance if you know or discover anywhere

The wind was atrocious like, the game was all but unplayable at Ponteland. Was getting to the stage that the keeper had to play it out not as a tactical choice but more because it would potentially have looped back into his own goal if he lofted it.

Alnwick one down at Ponteland but the wind is making a bit of a hit and hope game, absolutely ruinous

Basically that aye, I think you have to finish top five and have a suitable ground and you can then go up on application rather than merit if there's nobody else. I can't believe how good Wallington are like, long-standing fans tell me they've always been great.

Can't weigh them up at the minute, they were looking unstoppable early season but the form has become really erratic. I think Alnwick are looking the only ones who could realistically go up given the grounds of the other teams up there, but you want to do it as champions rather than by default like.

I think that sort of support is genuinely dying off at Newcastle's level, I don't think it's just us. Die hard supporters being gradually replaced by interested spectators, inevitable really with the television saturation.

Really windy as well though, it's a weird forecast tomorrow. Going to go and watch Alnwick at Ponteland I think.

But it's not only the stadium that's changed, is it? That's the point I suppose. The footballers have changed, public perception of the game has changed, the matchgoers have changed. SJP itself is the most obvious representation of it but the game and the crowd just aren't the same as they were even 20 years ago, much less 30

It's not disingenuous if you really think that the design of the stadium plays no part in it and I really don't. I've had the same experience sitting in different parts of the ground - like I say, I watched the life drain out of the Gallowgate between 2001ish and 2014ish when I got rid of the ST, and I've had good and bad experiences in pretty much all of the ground since then (I sat in the away end when it was up in the corner with a mate for a Leeds game and there was no issue with the atmosphere there). Only place I've never sat is the lower levels of the Leazes. It's almost exclusively to do with the quality of the football and the composition of the crowd (again, imo).