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you’ve probably had some good times too

If only Ikon was open mate - bouncing round to DJ Sammy with some charver lasses brushing each others faces with their lizzy duke rings. Just breathe it in, life changes, and often for the better my friend

Thanks Daveed love you too. From not Neil Cox

We must be like Sunderland where none of their fans actually live in Sunderland.... I agree if you're commuting back to the midlands I can understand why on an evening game you might want to get a head start but surely 90% of match goers live within a few miles of SJP. That post match pint in the Bulls tastes better if you've not missed half our goals...

very vague record too “long time” ?

I’ve not had anything and my details are correct too

we had one - “he’s a great lad, he’s a canny lad, he’s a sight for sore eyes, we’ve got Kevin keegan signed for the magpies” just replace KK with a current player

Aye I second this. At Brugge I ran into a young lad who had travelled without a ticket and had never been to a European away so I gave him mine (for face value). as it turns out watching in the square on the big screen (with a couple of thousand ticketless mags)they put up was more enjoyable that the escorted 2 mile walk to the ground before and after the game.

You can prove anything with facts mate

Jesus some fkin pissy pants on here like. I’d have taken a point at Leeds all day, they’re fighting for their lives and not as bad as their position suggests. Still think we will get top 4 but even if we don’t let’s hope msn city win champs league but even if they don’t,,, it’s been a class season love thus team and manager abd we will get better and better.’ Newcastle United will never be defeated we will support you evermore

I know their reputation precedes them but that’s nowt really in the Achebe if things. Their decent fans are good crack. Every club has its idiots and unfortunately because of millwalls misadventures in the 80s every 2 can Van Damme from the entire south east tags along it’s not just Bermondsey knackas.

we also nearly signed Chris Armstrong (looked like he had potential tbf and a local lad) ahead of Sir Les too

“Bunce” *rubs thumb and index finger*

Dropping Clarkie for Batty disrupted our attacking prowess imho

Exactly and we will get into them when they come up here

Rugby Union is still overwhelmingly a middle class sport - the majority of England capped players even since the game turned professional went to fee paying / selective schools. This is changing but there’s a code in rugby that’s probably learnt from an early age. I don’t think you can directly compare football and rugby union players (or supporters for that matter)

It’s give snd take - she watches a lot of soaps and I either go upstairs and watch something or go out for a couple of pints and watch football there. Might help our kids are all 10+ so pretty much entertain themselves during week and save days out / activities for weekends.

It wasn’t a designated standing area. This was post the Taylor report requirements when our singing area was the milburn / Leazes corner before the ground extension. The most vocal fans at the time stood / sat there and although many had purchased a £500 bond on top of their season tickets to (they thought) guarantee their seat for 10 years the club wanted to extend the corporate area and took fans who opposed being moved to court. Although the club won the legal argument that the fans only had the right to “a seat” not “their seat” the judge acknowledged that it was a loophole and the fans had been shafted. From memory the fans (ie those not directly affected) were more United than I guess would be the case now. But as I said things come full circle.

The bond / save our seats debacle proved that point in law too (although I still agree that was a pisstake by the club). It shows how things come full circle as years ago the standing area got scrapped to extend the corporate offering.

Had a pint with Nobby in the Blackies on gossy high street last Sunday. He drinks with a few of the old boys I know who get in there every Sunday.

Agree 100%. But the club just fell over themselves with the unprecedented demand. Remember the 10th of October 10 wins out of 10 v Tranmere in the KK promotion season - was circa 10,000 locked outside it was the last game that wasn’t all ticket. We paid on the door but we’re in the ground just after midday (I was 11 years old and went with my mates in the gallowgate corner - couldn’t imagine parents letting their kids do that nowadays!).

Hurst and Robson mainly

Look at who is on the board of our supporters trust and the cabal who run True Faith now. Hard to believe we’re a working class city in the NE sometimes. The schools they went to didn’t even play football till the late 1990s…

Who is it ? Are they part of the Hurst / Robson old tie cabal?

Marc Corby and as has been said Norman were good contributors- knowledgeable and down to earth. I don’t watch any TF stuff since their departure. I also think Emil is canny but the lad he does the “Toon pints” pod with is so full of himself he makes it unwatchable.