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Guest firetotheworks

Sending a pen and a few pins is exactly the sort of move you'd expect from a club that probably looks up in awe at the marketing of Alan Partridge and Flight of the Conchords.

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Guest Howaythetoon

The whole big club thing is boring, but only an idiot or a mackem would look at Newcastle United and consider it anything but a big club, that and it’s owner. It seems more of an issue to non NUFC fans than anyone else and a bug bear of certain journos, pundits, talking heads and trashy talk shows or radio phone ins.

 

As the article posted a few pages back stated, we don’t care about whether we are a big club or not, well I don’t anyway. I know we are, but it’s irrelevent to me as a supporter. We all want our team to be the best and to win lots of things, but that’s not what makes us who we are and keeps us going or defines our club for us and what it means to us. If it did we’d all be Man City fans...

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See they are sending out gifts to season ticket holders which include a silver nufc pen and nufc badges saying we are united.

Basically trying to butter up supporters.

They should have spent that money on signings rather than fucking pens.

 

Aye, got mine this morning even though I cancelled my ST after one game.

 

I wonder if my ticket still works?

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Well I'm sold, I couldn't give a shit that Ashley took our £100+ million TV money, puts cheap Sports Direct stickers over the most sacred place to me after my childhood home and at the same time letting it crumble around its rented foundations and then charge me an extra 25% for the privilege................................................cos he's given me a new pen.

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It appears Ashley is on a charm offensive, jet washing the walls outside of SJP, attending a match in support of the lads, sending out pens etc. This is the work of Bishop who even a simpleton like him realises the protests can’t be dampened by chums in the media sticking up for Ashley and sticking the boot into Rafa. If this is his response to quell protests or sweeten fans I’d be demanding my money back if I were Mike :lol: It’s all too predictably small time and reeks of nothing more than desperation. He doesn’t care though, this will all blow over, aye right :lol:

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Was the Fairs cup the equivalent of the Europa league and Uefa Cup, or a seperate competition?

 

Either way i know it counts as a major honour.

 

Back then, it being a new competition, it was considered by many a director/board and the media and indeed fans in general (no doubt many of our own fans back in the day too), as a pointless competition where even the European Cup was still regarded with a certain disdain in many quarters as inferior and somewhat beneath the myopic superiority of our our domestic competitions.

 

But to those that knew football, managers, especially the newer breed, players who considered representing their country abroad as the highest honour and fans not easily swayed by the xenophobic and self righteous opinion of the media filled with hacks who once saw the typewriter as the enemy to the pen, it was a tough exciting competition and equal in many ways to the European Cup in terms of quality and the path to glory.

 

Football was quite different back then, Malmö were a crack European team for example and when we won the Fairs Cup so were we and had that team been added to by someone more ahead of the times or keeping of the times back then like a Revie or a Clough, the Fairs Cup winning team could have been moulded into league and European cup champions.

 

Look at the gates, the battles, the scenes when we brought it home, it wasn’t just some throw away competition or meaningless trophy. The mackems and others may mock it today or try and day it wasn’t a proper competition, but that’s sour grapes.

 

We thought we would walk it and although we won it, we soon realised just how big an achievement it was given the quality of opposition, the competitiveness of all those that entered it and what it took to win it. Again, the scenes speak for itself. Ask any of those surviving players today what they think about this so-called loser trophy and they wouldn’t swap it for a league title or an FA Cup and I don’t think those fans that were lucky enough to see us lift it would either, not then and not now.

 

Sadly UEFA have devalued their competitions in a sporting context over the years, but to win any piece of silverware today in Europe is still a mighty feat to achieve whether it’s Real Madrid in the CL or Chelsea in the Europa League. Although their spoilt fans will probably regard their success in that as highly as winning the reserves league...

 

 

I have written this post (see 'link' below) about our "Fabulous Fairs Cup Win" of 1969.

 

The tournament was eventually re-named as "The UEFA Cup" and then later as "The Europa League", but back in 1969 it was a MUCH bigger and more important tournament than it now is.

 

Remember, only one team went into the 'European Cup' (now called 'The Champions league') so most of the teams that would now be in the Champions League (from 2nd, 3rd and 4th position in their domestic leagues) would all be in the Fairs Cup, with us.

 

Here is the story of our superb 1969 Fairs Cup adventures . . .

 

https://www.skyscrapercity.com/showpost.php?p=55836819&postcount=942

 

 

 

Thanks for sharing the link, not been on there in years, used to love that place as a reader. Bookmarked it, again cheers.

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He's robbing the club blind, claiming we owe him an ever increasing amount whilst stealing more than that amount back to Sports Direct. Sad thing is some still need to be convinced that this is the case ffs.

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