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  1. No, but I have mini versions of his paintings on the squad pages on my website (www.nufc-history.co.uk) and the plan is to have larger versions on individual player profile pages. Choose a season from the home page and click the “S” for the squad gallery. I have a small selection of player pages so far.
  2. Some of you may be aware of the wonderful work of Polish painter and United fan Piotr Jozefowicz who has painted almost every single player who has played competitively for the club. The paintings were watercolour but he is now starting to use oils. He has just posted me some of the oil ones and I just thought he deserves a bit of publicity so here is one of them.
  3. Extended highlights of 1995 FA Cup win at Ewood Park
  4. Pep said "Newcastle are an exceptional team and we spoke a lot that if we gave them an open game, a transition game, they will destroy us," Guardiola told reporters. "So we had to have a lot of control with a lot of passes. That's why I put a lot of players in the middle to have extra passes."
  5. I didn’t appreciate you were censoring and only wanted the good ones! Sorry, I won’t do it again! Gone now.
  6. Anderson deserves the chance and Hall would be another option as he really sees himself as a midfielder anyway
  7. Some more nufc v Liverpool videos Newcastle v Liverpool - 1967/68 - D1 - 23/12 (Part 1 of 3) Worth watching part 2 for the pitch invader if nothing else Newcastle v Liverpool - 1967/68 - D1 - 23/12 (Part 2 of 3) Newcastle v Liverpool - 1967/68 - D1 - 23/12 (Part 3 of 3) Newcastle United v Liverpool - 1994/95 - Pr 24/09 (1-1)
  8. Exactly this - these sites are obviously well known so why doesn’t the club just buy those tickets themselves to take them off the market and either take away the person’s season ticket (whoever it originally belonged to) or cancel the membership whoever originally bought it and find some way of identifying them to block future purchases or member applications, perhaps by using their bank details?
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    Epic NUFC photos

    It is amazing how many supporters (who saw him play) felt exactly the same, he must have been a very special player.
  10. To make them both feel really welcome in Newcastle perhaps we could sing the song that the AC Milan fans sing before the match. It shouldn’t be difficult - the video shows the Milan fans then the original. I’m already out of here @MrRaspberryJam https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcxwg6flnxw https://youtu.be/mcxwg6flnxw YouTube not allowing embed.
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    Epic NUFC photos

    Len White spent almost exactly nine years on Tyneside and with 153 goals is the third top scorer in the club’s history. He joined from Rotherham in February 1953 and was sold to Huddersfield in February 1962, much to the dismay of the supporters. Although Len was an important member of the squad in his first five seasons, fame and acclaim would come relatively late. His career on Tyneside only really took off in the 1957/58 season from when he moved to centre-forward and became a true Gallowgate hero. During the fifties United liked to play with contrasting wingers and with Bobby “dazzler” Mitchell on the left they usually had a direct, speed-merchant on the right. With excellent speed off the mark, the ability to challenge and beat opponents and an old-fashioned efficiency to cross long balls, Len fitted the brief perfectly. He was a versatile forward, terrier like and endowed with any amount of fighting spirit and although he was only 5’ 7” he was stocky and determined. Possessing a cracking shot in both feet, he had the sharpness, composure and strength to score from short or long distance. And, despite his small size, Len had a tremendous leap and strong neck muscles which enabled him to beat a big man and head for goal. A significant number of his goals on Tyneside were headers. 1957/58 was the first season in which Len was used primarily as a centre-forward and it proved to be the turning point in his career. He became a Tyneside hero; a hard-working, alert spearhead with explosive pace and a tremendous goal-getting record. His performances subsumed the best of his wing style into his centre-forward play using his speed, balance and dribbling skill, allied with a deceptive body swerve. Len would like to sit relatively deep and make spectacular, long, mazy runs through the middle, invoking the Gallowgate roar once reserved for Jackie Milburn’s dashes. Add in drives of dynamite and dynamic leaps in the air and you had performances of dazzle, thunder and flash. Bob Stokoe said at the time that: “I have always said that Len would be a great player if he would only believe in himself”. The fans certainly did, with favourable comparisons being made to United greats Albert Shepherd and Hughie Gallacher. On his day many judged him to be the most effective centre-forward in the land and he appeared twice for the Football League against the Irish and Scottish League teams. Len was selected ahead of Brian Clough when Nat Lofthouse pulled out due to injury for the game against the Irish League in 1957/58, scoring a stunning seven-minute hat-trick in front of the Kop in a 5-2 victory. But although Len was often strongly tipped for a full international cap, the call-up never came. It was said at the time that Len was one of the best uncapped centre-forwards in the game, with Milburn claiming he was the best. In 1960/61 Len was scoring so regularly that he had every chance of surpassing Hughie Gallacher record number of League goals scored in a season. But in the last seconds of the match at leaders Tottenham on the 22nd March hard-man Dave Mackay’s heavy challenge badly tore the ligaments in his left ankle. Although he had hoped to be fit for the new season, his ankle was still sore after a practice game and it was revealed that he was not expected to return until October and would receive “electrical treatment.” Miraculously, within days, he was deemed fit enough to play. Len was not happy about being rushed back and struggled to regain his form. Clubs started to make bids for him and although United kept rebuffing them, he was eventually used in part-exchange for Huddersfield inside-forward Jimmy Kerray.
  12. My blood pressure is fine (!) but the issue is not what our supporters think about it. It is about the negative publicity it attracts for the club.
  13. I agree totally but I just cannot see what PIF hope to achieve with it either. Perhaps it will draw a big crowd and prove to be a real spectacle for them, but I cannot see it myself.
  14. I’m sure you are right from our perspective but will it be worth all the negative feedback we will get. And if they pay us loads questions will inevitably be asked about that too.
  15. So what? I don’t believe there will be any more enthusiasm to watch a couple of pretty crappy foreign sides than there was then. People were pretty enthused about Newcastle then too but the passion fans have for NUFC doesn’t pass on to watching any teams (unless they are locally based).
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