LFEE Posted December 22, 2022 Share Posted December 22, 2022 Still probably my best away day… Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hovagod Posted December 22, 2022 Share Posted December 22, 2022 That is the exact type of game and score line that always seemed to happen against us when Keegan was manager. A last minute sickener like that. Seeing us do it to other teams was brilliant and surreal. Still maintain that if Bellamy had stayed fit there was no reason we could not have won the entire thing that year- think Ferguson said the same thing. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr.Spaceman Posted December 22, 2022 Share Posted December 22, 2022 IIRC it was properly freezing that day! I'd probably join you in saying that was my favourite away game as an NUFC fan. Slagging off Lee Bowyer (and Woodgate, who was on the bench) all game, chanting "There's only one Michael Duberry" if memory serves, then Bowyer scored straight after we did and started berating us. Great day. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrRaspberryJam Posted December 22, 2022 Share Posted December 22, 2022 Not many players can say they've been outpaced by Solano. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr.Spaceman Posted December 22, 2022 Share Posted December 22, 2022 Harte was in his prime then too Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LFEE Posted December 22, 2022 Share Posted December 22, 2022 26 minutes ago, Dr.Spaceman said: IIRC it was properly freezing that day! I'd probably join you in saying that was my favourite away game as an NUFC fan. Slagging off Lee Bowyer (and Woodgate, who was on the bench) all game, chanting "There's only one Michael Duberry" if memory serves, then Bowyer scored straight after we did and started berating us. Great day. Drove back in thick snowstorm 🚙 “Hey… Lee Bowyer… Oo… Arr… I wanna know… why you’re not in jail?!” for virtually 2/3rds of the game 😂 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coffee_Johnny Posted December 22, 2022 Share Posted December 22, 2022 19 minutes ago, LFEE said: Drove back in thick snowstorm 🚙 “Hey… Lee Bowyer… Oo… Arr… I wanna know… why you’re not in jail?!” for virtually 2/3rds of the game 😂 😂 it’s a wonder he joined us! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shays Given Tim Flowers Posted December 22, 2022 Share Posted December 22, 2022 What a team we had then, such a mixture of talents. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonas Posted December 22, 2022 Share Posted December 22, 2022 Couldn't believe that week. Even though we were having a good season I wouldn't have expected Keegan's teams to win three games that week including two at Arsenal and Leeds. Snowed like mad up here that day. Can still see a mate running down a road like Forest Gump Christmas Special after the evening celebrations with a snowball for an ear-ring and no idea he was on a road. Halcyon days. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr.Spaceman Posted December 22, 2022 Share Posted December 22, 2022 1 hour ago, LFEE said: Drove back in thick snowstorm 🚙 “Hey… Lee Bowyer… Oo… Arr… I wanna know… why you’re not in jail?!” for virtually 2/3rds of the game 😂 We drove up from Derby after an hour or so of my mam practically begging us not to Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolfcastle Posted December 22, 2022 Share Posted December 22, 2022 We had Leeds number at the time. They'd spent all that money but even the year before when we were average and without a load of players (even Marcelino had to play) we beat them twice, played them off the park more often than not in those days. Robert and Solano had their full backs on toast, though that's not saying much with Mills. Got to be one of my favourite goals that by Nobby. 3 hours ago, Shays Given Tim Flowers said: What a team we had then, such a mixture of talents. Great way of putting it. We played to the individual attributes of all the players and excelled as a team because of it, without any of them, a slowed down Shearer included, being a total package. 4 hours ago, LFEE said: Drove back in thick snowstorm 🚙 “Hey… Lee Bowyer… Oo… Arr… I wanna know… why you’re not in jail?!” for virtually 2/3rds of the game 😂 Viduka got some grief too for a running battle for Dabizas. In the return he got "fat Aussie b*stard" after it flared up again. Cracking player though, when fit. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Optimistic Nut Posted December 23, 2022 Share Posted December 23, 2022 Ian Harte trying to stop Solano on the 4th goal is one of the funniest bits of defending I've seen mind. Solano was hardly fast. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bowlingcrofty Posted December 23, 2022 Share Posted December 23, 2022 Not the greatest keeping either. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrRaspberryJam Posted December 23, 2022 Share Posted December 23, 2022 12 hours ago, Wolfcastle said: We had Leeds number at the time. They'd spent all that money but even the year before when we were average and without a load of players (even Marcelino had to play) we beat them twice, played them off the park more often than not in those days. Robert and Solano had their full backs on toast, though that's not saying much with Mills Slightly off topic, and I'm probably way off here, but Marcelino wasn't actually shit was he? I mean, IIRC, he definitely wasn't anything to shout home about, I just can't remember him being garbage or owt. It was just he was soft as shite and injury prone. *Tin hat on* Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheBrownBottle Posted December 23, 2022 Share Posted December 23, 2022 Me and a mate got the bus back to the station from Elland Road after that match. Used all my Jedi mind powers to stop my mate from saying a word in case we got a hiding. Which sounds dramatic, unless you’ve been to Leeds away. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coffee_Johnny Posted December 23, 2022 Share Posted December 23, 2022 2 hours ago, MrRaspberryJam said: Slightly off topic, and I'm probably way off here, but Marcelino wasn't actually shit was he? I mean, IIRC, he definitely wasn't anything to shout home about, I just can't remember him being garbage or owt. It was just he was soft as shite and injury prone. *Tin hat on* Probably speaks for itself, but I can’t really remember the specifics re his actual play, beyond he looked an elegant passing type centre back. Can’t remember whether he read the game well, had good timing, was quick … just recall his poorly finger stopping play! What a legacy! 🤷♂️ Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheBrownBottle Posted December 23, 2022 Share Posted December 23, 2022 37 minutes ago, Coffee_Johnny said: Probably speaks for itself, but I can’t really remember the specifics re his actual play, beyond he looked an elegant passing type centre back. Can’t remember whether he read the game well, had good timing, was quick … just recall his poorly finger stopping play! What a legacy! 🤷♂️ He wasn’t very good on the odd occasion he did. I remember being on holiday in Mallorca when he signed - a Spanish barman who was a Real Mallorca supporter was fulsome in his praises before a game me and my mates watched in his pub (Man Utd - got pumped 5-1 or 6-1 - can’t remember exactly). Nice bloke but shit judge of a footballer. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Holloway Posted December 23, 2022 Share Posted December 23, 2022 Brilliant memories that game, watched in a pub at Highbury corner and it was mobbed with Toon fans. Surreal Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paully Posted January 4, 2023 Share Posted January 4, 2023 Three years ago was one of the worst if not the worst display (and there were many to choose from!) under that useless bastard - lucky to get a 1-1 draw at Rochdale! How things change! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hovagod Posted January 4, 2023 Share Posted January 4, 2023 46 minutes ago, Paully said: Three years ago was one of the worst if not the worst display (and there were many to choose from!) under that useless bastard - lucky to get a 1-1 draw at Rochdale! How things change! Was in the home end that day, for some bizarre reason. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paully Posted January 10, 2023 Share Posted January 10, 2023 (edited) Dixon should have been done for GBH that night! No wonder Ginola reacted! Edited January 10, 2023 by Paully Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Optimistic Nut Posted January 10, 2023 Share Posted January 10, 2023 Just what we needed a reminder of the day of a League Cup Quarter Final. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rich Posted January 10, 2023 Share Posted January 10, 2023 That's all I could think about when the Arsenal fans were having their cry about our "approach" last week. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
madras Posted January 10, 2023 Share Posted January 10, 2023 28 minutes ago, Paully said: Dixon should have been sone for GBH that night! No wonder Ginola reacted! There's a point in that game when Nigel Winterburn, after already being booked brings Ginola down from behind and just starts walking off knowing he was getting a second yellow. Other Arsenal players had to stop him. I think the ref gave him the free kick. Ginolas only failing that night was not wading into Dixon until in he was physically dragged off. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kid Icarus Posted January 10, 2023 Share Posted January 10, 2023 I can't put into words how much I hated that league cup match against Arsenal like. They got away with murder and Ginola was never the same after it. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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