Superior Acuña Posted December 23, 2009 Share Posted December 23, 2009 http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/general/others/sport-vote-tearjerker-of-the-decade-1842660.html Not hate as such, but bit about how we cried loads at Villa. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Interpolic Posted December 23, 2009 Share Posted December 23, 2009 http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/general/others/sport-vote-tearjerker-of-the-decade-1842660.html Not hate as such, but bit about how we cried loads at Villa. Geordies' relegation Nobody does tears like Newcastle fans, and a season in which the club was relegated (aptly) by an own goal in May, contained a bucketful. They were managed by not one but two messianic figures in Kevin Keegan and Alan Shearer, who were forced to work for Mike Ashley, a cartoon-like chairman who seemed to understand little about football. Shearer's grim-faced admission that the club "was simply not good enough to survive" capped a downfall triggered by the decision to fire Sir Bobby Robson for the crime of finishing fifth. Blah, blah, blah... fuck off, it's beyond boring. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Haris Vuckic Posted December 23, 2009 Share Posted December 23, 2009 About one bloke cried at villa Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronaldo Posted December 23, 2009 Share Posted December 23, 2009 Aye, stood next to me. Spent the entire first half calling Agbonlahor 'a black bastard who wants to play for England but doesn't even have an english name'. Balled his eyes out at FT. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
NG32 Posted December 23, 2009 Share Posted December 23, 2009 http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/general/others/sport-vote-tearjerker-of-the-decade-1842660.html Not hate as such, but bit about how we cried loads at Villa. Geordies' relegation Nobody does tears like Newcastle fans, and a season in which the club was relegated (aptly) by an own goal in May, contained a bucketful. They were managed by not one but two messianic figures in Kevin Keegan and Alan Shearer, who were forced to work for Mike Ashley, a cartoon-like chairman who seemed to understand little about football. Shearer's grim-faced admission that the club "was simply not good enough to survive" capped a downfall triggered by the decision to fire Sir Bobby Robson for the crime of finishing fifth. Blah, blah, blah... f*** off, it's beyond boring. Lame, so they cant attack or have a go at us this season cos we are sitting pretty with cracking crowds coming through the door. So they go back to our relegation day. Fuck off man and think of summik new. Borning cunts. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LesPaul Posted December 23, 2009 Share Posted December 23, 2009 You wouldn't mind only it was just the one fat f*** that cried anyway. It wasn't like Brazil after they lost the world cup in Brazil with mass suicide in the stdium ffs! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thespence Posted December 23, 2009 Share Posted December 23, 2009 Ghastly paper but fucking hell most of those moments seem are of the misery of sport rather than the joy. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
biggs Posted December 23, 2009 Share Posted December 23, 2009 A refreshing change Why Newcastle fans are one of the marvels of the modern game - and I've got the numbers to prove it By Simon Bird Published 13:15 21/12/09 If you haven’t seen the crowd figure from St James’ Park yesterday here it is: 49,644. Read that again. And again. And marvel. Just short of 50,000 fans turn out to see a Championship match, in sub zero temperatures, on a weekend when money is at its tightest and Christmas shopping beckons. Seeing thousands of happy Geordies trooping off home for Christmas with their club back on its feet, storming away at the top of the league, was a heart-warming sight. Remember these are the fans who are still coming back for more despite two years of turmoil on and off the pitch. They’ve stayed ridiculously loyal, despite the most testing year to be a fan in a generation. Fervour, passion and devotion is what you get from the men, women and kids in black and white shirts sitting in the cold yesterday. Rival fans should remember that crowd figure when they next thrown mud at the Geordie Nation. 49,644. Liverpool, Chelsea, Aston Villa, Spurs, Manchester City, Birmingham, Fulham, West Ham, Everton. None of them can beat it. Even local rivals Sunderland, last home crowd down to 34,000, despite generous offers of £19 season tickets for kids, can’t get close. To nick a phrase from one acerbic observer who taunts his Mackem mates: “It’s Niall Quinn I feel sorry for.” Newcastle have also taken 7,000 on away trips to the likes of Barnsley. So next time you hear the old cliches being wheeled out: Newcastle fans expect too much success, they get managers sacked, they think they are better than everyone else, they are always crying on the telly. Just stop and think. Newcastle fans are actually one of the marvels of the modern game. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Geordiesned Posted December 23, 2009 Share Posted December 23, 2009 Wrong thread biggs. No have there from Kinnear's best mate. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Geordiesned Posted December 23, 2009 Share Posted December 23, 2009 *hate. (bloody predictive text) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
HongKongMag Posted January 2, 2010 Share Posted January 2, 2010 New article from Caulkin over a the times: http://timesonline.typepad.com/thegame/2009/12/newcastle-have-found-their-soul-in-the-championship.html Totally missed it whenit came out, but it's a good read! George Caulkin "The fate of peoples is made like this, two men in small rooms. Forget the coronations, the conclaves of cardinals, the pomp and processions. This is how the world changes." Thomas Cromwell in Wolf Hall, Hilary Mantel’s Booker Prize winning novel. Anything could have happened. In the maelstrom which followed their relegation, amid the uncertainty about their ownership and management, with staff being sacked and with players departing, Newcastle United felt like an untethered football club. No anchor, no base. When the first-team squad reassembled for pre-season training, they knew nothing and had been told less. They teetered on a precipice. The previous few months had, in football terms, been horrific. Underachievement, poor decisions, upheaval in the dug-out, confusion and demotion; if you wanted a wish-list for excuses, this was it. Too many egos, not enough team-work, and every cough and criticism spluttered in the dressing-room had somehow found its way into the newspapers. A grand old club had been sapped of its dignity and vitality. When Newcastle’s history is updated to include 2009, their annus horribilis, the summer meeting called by Chris Hughton will figure prominently. Granted, more than two men were present, but Cromwell’s words are otherwise apposite; as much as anything which took place on the pitch, those discussions set the club on a course which, as the year turns, leaves them six points clear at the top of the Coca-Cola Championship. The gist was as follows. We’ve let the club down and have to accept it. Those who want to stay and rectify matters, please do. If you need to go, then fine, but be honest with yourselves and with us. Who knows whether Alan Shearer will return as manager or if Mike Ashley will sell the club, but forget about that; let’s work hard, one day at a time, and put an end to the drip-drip of corrosive leaks. As a consequence, Newcastle now has something which has been absent for far too long: a team. They have had some good players over the years, but not too long ago were making vanity signings which originated from the boardroom at the expense of building a side based on balance and hunger. In so doing, the foundations installed by Sir Bobby Robson, delicate though they may have been, were eroded. A team. Newcastle, united. So while supporters have a right to feel aggrieved about the status of their club and would be justified in feeling concerned about the future, they can at least - and at last - be assured that the men blessed with the privilege of sporting their stripes do so because they want to. They can complain about the quality of football, but not about touchstone issues such as motivation and desire. Newcastle have had to lose their place in the Barclays Premier League in order to rediscover something profound - their soul. Something is now engrained in the changing-room - in an interview for The Times later this week, Kevin Nolan describes it as “a philosophy” - which is intended to serve as the benchmark for whatever happens next. New arrivals will be required to adopt it. This grasping of responsibility by senior players, this acceptance that things had to change but that nobody was going to do it for them, feels pretty unique. Footballers are rarely so engaged with their surroundings - and scarcely need to be, because so much is presented to them on a gilded platter - but Newcastle is different. Does it make them world-beaters or perfect or brilliant? No. But it makes them better and it makes them decent. In the likes of Nolan - 11 goals this season, happy and settled in his “home from home,” in the North East - Alan Smith, Nicky Butt, Steve Harper, whose form in goal has been consistently excellent, and others, they have a core of men who care. While that should be the bare minimum at any club, the context at Newcastle over recent times has been of belief-shaking turmoil. Yet people on Tyneside still believe in their club, or the idea of it, anyway. Just as there has been a kind of renewal on the pitch, off it fans have both demonstrated a startling, humbling level of loyalty to Newcastle - 49,644 in attendance against Middlesbrough on Boxing Day, 47,505 for Derby County on Monday - and coalesced in a mature and heartening manner. What is now the Newcastle United Supporters Trust (NUST) was born out of love, anger, passion and a weary resignation with the unstable status quo on Gallowgate. Their ‘Yes We Can’ campaign to buy the club will, after a short festive break, pick up again in January having already received thousands of expressions of support and millions of pounds in pledges from both fans and local businesses. By its nature, their project (whose origins lie in a dedicated fanzine movement, led by The Mag, true faith and nufc.com) is deeply ambitious, but they promise interesting announcements in the weeks to come. While the NUST are not putting limits on their potential, they have already raised enough awareness and money that any owners - including the present one if he makes a fist of things - should bring them on board. The notion of representation, of greater transparency in the boardroom, is one which could be every bit as fundamental to Newcastle’s long-term as unity in the dressing-room. There can only be uneasiness about what might happen in the summer and beyond - and so there should be - but by continuing to turn up and support their team, there has been a reconnection between the field and the stands. Two draws in succession, a whittling of their lead, a lack of fantasy football and a need to strengthen their squad in key positions do not feel so disastrous when anything could have happened. Top of the table, even if it is the wrong table, does not seem too bad when anything could have happened. Crowds in the region of 50,000, at Christmas, in a recession, leave you open-mouthed when anything could have happened. With all the necessary caveats, small-print, fears and footnotes, something important has happened at Newcastle. Players like Harper and Nolan have proved themselves far more worthy of affection and admiration than those rootless ‘Galacticos’ who have passed through the doors of St James’, leaving far richer and without giving an ounce of themselves in the process. For all the team’s faults, it is just that: a team. Whether it can last is anybody’s guess. Whether they can withstand the brutality of a full season in the Championship, on a limited budget, with a backdrop of continued cost-cutting and with the future so opaque, cannot be predicted (nothing at Newcastle ever can). But to look back at a rotten 2009, eyes peeping through fingers, is to recognise that anything could have happened. And to be content that, against the odds, it did not. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Phil K Posted January 2, 2010 Share Posted January 2, 2010 http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/general/others/sport-vote-tearjerker-of-the-decade-1842660.html Not hate as such, but bit about how we cried loads at Villa. Geordies' relegation Nobody does tears like Newcastle fans, and a season in which the club was relegated (aptly) by an own goal in May, contained a bucketful. They were managed by not one but two messianic figures in Kevin Keegan and Alan Shearer, who were forced to work for Mike Ashley, a cartoon-like chairman who seemed to understand little about football. Shearer's grim-faced admission that the club "was simply not good enough to survive" capped a downfall triggered by the decision to fire Sir Bobby Robson for the crime of finishing fifth. Blah, blah, blah... f*** off, it's beyond boring. Lame, so they cant attack or have a go at us this season cos we are sitting pretty with cracking crowds coming through the door. So they go back to our relegation day. f*** off man and think of summik new. Borning c***s. Theres been a staggering amount of spite thrown at this club, and more disgracefully against the fans. And the WORST of this has been in the so-called "quality" broadsheets. They have been hugely, petualntly disappointed we have not done a Leeds. They'll keep trying to have digs at us too until one of their own number does a major article in one of these same broadsheets asking what T.F. they're doing it for, and ask them to justify their spiteful obsessions. Not very likely that, is it ? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
madras Posted January 2, 2010 Share Posted January 2, 2010 http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/general/others/sport-vote-tearjerker-of-the-decade-1842660.html Not hate as such, but bit about how we cried loads at Villa. Geordies' relegation Nobody does tears like Newcastle fans, and a season in which the club was relegated (aptly) by an own goal in May, contained a bucketful. They were managed by not one but two messianic figures in Kevin Keegan and Alan Shearer, who were forced to work for Mike Ashley, a cartoon-like chairman who seemed to understand little about football. Shearer's grim-faced admission that the club "was simply not good enough to survive" capped a downfall triggered by the decision to fire Sir Bobby Robson for the crime of finishing fifth. Blah, blah, blah... f*** off, it's beyond boring. Lame, so they cant attack or have a go at us this season cos we are sitting pretty with cracking crowds coming through the door. So they go back to our relegation day. f*** off man and think of summik new. Borning c***s. Theres been a staggering amount of spite thrown at this club, and more disgracefully against the fans. And the WORST of this has been in the so-called "quality" broadsheets. They have been hugely, petualntly disappointed we have not done a Leeds. They'll keep trying to have digs at us too until one of their own number does a major article in one of these same broadsheets asking what T.F. they're doing it for, and ask them to justify their spiteful obsessions. Not very likely that, is it ? doubt you'll get a bite this time phil. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Howaythelads Posted January 2, 2010 Share Posted January 2, 2010 http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/general/others/sport-vote-tearjerker-of-the-decade-1842660.html Not hate as such, but bit about how we cried loads at Villa. Geordies' relegation Nobody does tears like Newcastle fans, and a season in which the club was relegated (aptly) by an own goal in May, contained a bucketful. They were managed by not one but two messianic figures in Kevin Keegan and Alan Shearer, who were forced to work for Mike Ashley, a cartoon-like chairman who seemed to understand little about football. Shearer's grim-faced admission that the club "was simply not good enough to survive" capped a downfall triggered by the decision to fire Sir Bobby Robson for the crime of finishing fifth. Blah, blah, blah... f*** off, it's beyond boring. Lame, so they cant attack or have a go at us this season cos we are sitting pretty with cracking crowds coming through the door. So they go back to our relegation day. f*** off man and think of summik new. Borning c***s. Theres been a staggering amount of spite thrown at this club, and more disgracefully against the fans. And the WORST of this has been in the so-called "quality" broadsheets. They have been hugely, petualntly disappointed we have not done a Leeds. They'll keep trying to have digs at us too until one of their own number does a major article in one of these same broadsheets asking what T.F. they're doing it for, and ask them to justify their spiteful obsessions. Not very likely that, is it ? doubt you'll get a bite this time phil. He's spot on. What is there to bite about? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
madras Posted January 2, 2010 Share Posted January 2, 2010 http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/general/others/sport-vote-tearjerker-of-the-decade-1842660.html Not hate as such, but bit about how we cried loads at Villa. Geordies' relegation Nobody does tears like Newcastle fans, and a season in which the club was relegated (aptly) by an own goal in May, contained a bucketful. They were managed by not one but two messianic figures in Kevin Keegan and Alan Shearer, who were forced to work for Mike Ashley, a cartoon-like chairman who seemed to understand little about football. Shearer's grim-faced admission that the club "was simply not good enough to survive" capped a downfall triggered by the decision to fire Sir Bobby Robson for the crime of finishing fifth. Blah, blah, blah... f*** off, it's beyond boring. Lame, so they cant attack or have a go at us this season cos we are sitting pretty with cracking crowds coming through the door. So they go back to our relegation day. f*** off man and think of summik new. Borning c***s. Theres been a staggering amount of spite thrown at this club, and more disgracefully against the fans. And the WORST of this has been in the so-called "quality" broadsheets. They have been hugely, petualntly disappointed we have not done a Leeds. They'll keep trying to have digs at us too until one of their own number does a major article in one of these same broadsheets asking what T.F. they're doing it for, and ask them to justify their spiteful obsessions. Not very likely that, is it ? doubt you'll get a bite this time phil. He's spot on. What is there to bite about? how about the reems and reems of newsprint telling us about how loyal and passionate the geordie fans are. you know the stuff that galls the rest of the country. what i meant about 'this time' was his insistence that a backhandedly complimentary piece was ahatchet job. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Phil K Posted January 2, 2010 Share Posted January 2, 2010 doubt you'll get a bite this time phil. He's spot on. What is there to bite about? Ah theres certain characters like Madras - and a few of the moderators, believe it or not - who will pick up on almost every post I make and try to get others to join in on the flaming, knowing I bite back and get them screaming abuse (have a check at the Beckford/Boyd thread for an example) Pretty much like a pack of scabby cats at night on a wall - one starts yowling and then the rest join in ! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest icemanblue Posted January 2, 2010 Share Posted January 2, 2010 doubt you'll get a bite this time phil. He's spot on. What is there to bite about? Ah theres certain characters like Madras - and a few of the moderators, believe it or not - who will pick up on almost every post I make and try to get others to join in on the flaming, knowing I bite back and get them screaming abuse (have a check at the Beckford/Boyd thread for an example) Pretty much like a pack of scabby cats at night on a wall - one starts yowling and then the rest join in ! 5'1", max. Got to be. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Phil K Posted January 2, 2010 Share Posted January 2, 2010 what i meant about 'this time' was his insistence that a backhandedly complimentary piece was ahatchet job. OK, so we should pretend we don't see the abuse then ? And there's been plenty of that. Show me where Liverpool fans have received the same response as we did over their campaign against THEIR boardroom ? We were actually BLAMED by them as much as Ashley for our relegation - do you disagree ? The rags have BACKED the Liverpool fans - do you disagree there too ? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pilko Posted January 2, 2010 Share Posted January 2, 2010 Today at 07:06:23 PM In: The Media : 'We hate... By: Phil K Glad to see they share the opinion of many on these boards. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Phil K Posted January 2, 2010 Share Posted January 2, 2010 doubt you'll get a bite this time phil. He's spot on. What is there to bite about? Ah theres certain characters like Madras - and a few of the moderators, believe it or not - who will pick up on almost every post I make and try to get others to join in on the flaming, knowing I bite back and get them screaming abuse (have a check at the Beckford/Boyd thread for an example) Pretty much like a pack of scabby cats at night on a wall - one starts yowling and then the rest join in ! 5'1", max. Got to be. Ah ! Can you hear the cacophony ? Yowl ! Screech ! Today at 07:06:23 PM In: The Media : 'We hate... By: Phil K Glad to see they share the opinion of many on these boards. Same kind of people generally do. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Posted January 2, 2010 Share Posted January 2, 2010 Lighten up. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChezGiven Posted January 2, 2010 Share Posted January 2, 2010 Lighten up. :toke: Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest firetotheworks Posted January 2, 2010 Share Posted January 2, 2010 Lighten up. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Phil K Posted January 2, 2010 Share Posted January 2, 2010 Lighten up. Hey, I'm fine and dandy - I'm not the one who over-reacted to something I misread or didn't understand. You know, Isaac Asimov was the only author who ever answered all stuff addressed to him - just following his example ! Lighten up. :toke: Got one spare ? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pilko Posted January 2, 2010 Share Posted January 2, 2010 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHOf3s70w-c Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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