TheBrownBottle

Because we’d have qualified for Europe

Win tomorrow and the Europeometer can be put away

Watching it in Sydney at 3:30am local time Monday with 250 others who have all hopefully managed to get annual leave …

I used to be entertained by this daft cunt in Idols.

I was never much of a one for the film - or the theme tbh. I was always in full agreement with The Mag complaining about it being played by Barry in the Box before kick off. Sorry all

Classic, later covered for the Sid the Sexist cartoon by Simon Donald

Don’t know how we’re on page 3 of a Newcastle Wembley song list request and nee bugger has Mungo Jerry yet

Two of my mates bunged the turnstile bloke £40 each in 1999 just before kick off to watch the cup final vs Man Utd. So there is that reason.

Like I said, meaningless

I’m just glad you’re off to your spiritual home, with your yoghurt-knitting loony left ways. Being able to pronounce focaccia correctly would get your head kicked in if you asked for that in The Star

I bet you’ve had avacado on toast for breakfast

Yeah, a genuinely sound bloke. And someone for whom the phrase ‘propping the bar up’ could have been invented - I don’t think he ever moved from his usual spot. I’m convinced he was still stood there after it closed. I was sad to hear he’d died from a mate of mine.

Haha fuck me. Why would you bother? I didn’t watch the FA Cup Final in 1992 nor the League Final in 2013(?) (I think it was around then - does anyone really remember LC finals?). In Shankly’s phrase, if they were playing in my garden I’d close the curtains

Haha nice one - enjoy!

I doubt that calling him a cunt is a majority view, though I’ve no idea. He was always a cunt for me. He put very little of his own money in - a couple of million - and his family stripped an awful lot back out (£100m+). He fucked off as soon as the float went through, though he continued creaming off the top, before selling us down the river to Ashley (who he constantly defended). The Metro Centre was always proof to me that business much of the time is luck and not talent. Hall and his backers’ plans for that area was for a small shopping centre with a large play area, and all on the cheap (land previously owned by the NCB being sold off cheaply after the destruction of the coal industry by the woman he funded and who knighted him in return). It was the likes of M&S coming in and asking for more floor area that saw it grow and grow.

Always drank in the Hotspur, just not on a matchday. I liked going into the Monkey Bar after work sometimes (I worked at the PPA in my younger days). Haven’t seen or heard anything about him in years, couldn’t say. The lines weren’t exactly sparkling clean in there, mind.

‘Assists’ are a weird old metric, though. They’re a pretty recent introduction, and are borderline meaningless - they imply that the last pass before a goal is the one which creates a goal.

Plenty of room, too. I had a few ‘routes’ over the years - don’t know how that happens, but groups of mates seem to have regular routes then somehow it all changes. Pre-match it was the Empress - Beehive - Vault - Idols when I first started. Then that changed to Union Rooms - the Pink Lane pubs. Then the Adelphi - Bar Oz - Percy - Three Bulls. And I have no idea when or how the routes changed!

Fair enough Hank - but I’d still advise being more careful in one of those wank bars on Collingwood St than in the Garter

Used to drink in the Garter with my uncle sometimes post match. For several years I drank in the Adelphi pre and post match when Tess Mann ran it. I never had my post graduate analysis in there lead to getting me a slap, either. In all honesty, you just seem desperate to think that casual violence for overhearing people say something negative is par for the course in Newcastle’s less shiny pubs. In two decades drinking in those places I can honestly say I saw less pagga and aggro than in the shit plastic Bigg Market bars of my yoof. Listing ‘hard bars’ in Newcastle and fantasising that a bloke you’ve never met will get beaten up in it for saying that John Hall is a cunt is an interesting use of imaginative thought, even if it is borderline ‘my dad is harder than your dad’ crack.

I used to head to the Quayside post match - to get as far away from the crowd as possible to avoid exactly this

I agree, it would be hard to do it. Which means that it is harder to assess performance of your own squad. I still think the final count will show that we’ve got a decent squad with some superb players, but some pretty gaping holes in it too. GK, RCB, RW, CF are not well stocked (allowing for CF having one elite player in it).

Yeah, The Percy and The Three Bulls were always on my route on a matchday Try not to call someone’s pint a John Hall when you’re in there, mind

Which only works if you analyse the other squads around us in the same manner. Our squad is better than that of Bournemouth, Fulham or Forest for starters.

Tbf I’d watch local news if that was what they did for vox pops.