Guest neesy111 Posted February 4, 2022 Share Posted February 4, 2022 1 hour ago, LV said: serious?? Yes, BT want rid as it's losing money still. Dazn wanted to buy it but they have have a lot of other issues at this time. It's a good move tbh. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rafalove Posted February 4, 2022 Share Posted February 4, 2022 1 hour ago, HTT II said: Consett/Stanley is probably 60/40 mackems to Mags at current. These backward Durham-ish areas are largely populated by older people though, when they die out it will all be 100% Mag land. 2021ers! My experience is that west Durham is usually mag. There a lot of Sunderland fans too and also Manchester United and Liverpool. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Village Idiot Posted February 5, 2022 Share Posted February 5, 2022 13 hours ago, midds said: Bet he's fucking odd. Yet to meet a person from Consett/Stanley who I'd consider to be normal He's a nice guy, but yeah, pretty weird! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robster Posted February 6, 2022 Share Posted February 6, 2022 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
STM Posted February 6, 2022 Share Posted February 6, 2022 Go on, have a little cry. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gbandit Posted February 6, 2022 Share Posted February 6, 2022 Great to see Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rafalove Posted February 6, 2022 Share Posted February 6, 2022 Yeah that’s really great. When you see something like that it drives home the thought that football isn’t “just” football. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
tgarve Posted February 6, 2022 Share Posted February 6, 2022 Lush that Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben Posted February 6, 2022 Share Posted February 6, 2022 Do people actually know where Stanley is ? It's 7 mile from st James park i can drive there in like 18 minutes Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pedro111 Posted February 6, 2022 Share Posted February 6, 2022 Fwiw, I know 2 people from Stanley. Not related and both are mackems. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted February 6, 2022 Share Posted February 6, 2022 Aye lots of Mackems in Stanley, sadly. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JNK Posted February 6, 2022 Share Posted February 6, 2022 (edited) 3 hours ago, Rafalove said: Yeah that’s really great. When you see something like that it drives home the thought that football isn’t “just” football. Football hasn't been just fooball for more than 100 yeas, there are countless stories, i've seen people with depression decide not to take their lives because of one great game in a stadium. There's a say in Brazil that Football is by far the most important thing of the least important ones in life. Btw the thing that got me trough my father leaving our home was our club's stadium, i was 6, my uncles took me to watch almost every game that year, I even went in to the pitch with the players some games, we were just promoted to the top tier, being champions of the second divison with our biggest rival's being second, that year was so good we made the playoff's with some amazing football. But it was the crowd that made me fall in love with the game. Nowadays only place in the world I feel happier than the stadium is on top of a surfboard. Edited February 6, 2022 by JNK Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tyne81 Posted February 6, 2022 Share Posted February 6, 2022 4 hours ago, STM said: Go on, have a little cry. Ah man that got to me. Brilliant. Heard a few good things about him. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
madras Posted February 6, 2022 Share Posted February 6, 2022 5 minutes ago, JNK said: Football hasn't been just fooball for more than 100 yeas, there are countless stories, i've seen people with depression decide not to take their lives because of one great game in a stadium. There's a say in Brazil that Football is by far the most important thing of the least important ones in life. Btw the thing that got me trough my father leaving our home was our club's stadium, i was 6, my uncles took me to watch almost every game that year, I even went in to the pitch with the players some games, we were just promoted to the top tier, being champions of the second divison with our biggest rival's being second, that year was so good we made the playoff's with some amazing football. But it was the crowd that made me fall in love with the game. Nowadays only place in the world I feel more happy than the stadium is on top of a surfboard. There's a great book "Home and Away" by Karl Ove Knausgaard and Frederik Ekelund and it's their letters to each other about football and life and culture, Karl loving the dour, workmanlike game and Frederik (living in Brazil) the exuberant and reckless. Think you'd like it. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest HTT II Posted February 7, 2022 Share Posted February 7, 2022 (edited) 16 hours ago, STM said: Go on, have a little cry. That’s lush and aye there are more important things in life than football, but the joy people get from football and watching their heroes can be a beautiful thing in a life that can be so hard, and when, as in this video, some lass or lad gets to meet their hero, it’s special indeed. Delighted for the lass and good on Grealish, he could have just left it at signing her top, but went and gave her a hug! Edited February 7, 2022 by HTT II Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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gjohnson Posted February 7, 2022 Share Posted February 7, 2022 17 hours ago, Ben said: Do people actually know where Stanley is ? It's 7 mile from st James park i can drive there in like 18 minutes Guess you have a flying Delorean then? Thats at least a half an hour drive unless you've got some hidden route that avoids anything like a main road or you have no fear of speed limits at all Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
tgarve Posted February 7, 2022 Share Posted February 7, 2022 47 minutes ago, gjohnson said: Guess you have a flying Delorean then? Thats at least a half an hour drive unless you've got some hidden route that avoids anything like a main road or you have no fear of speed limits at all Just checked and it 20 minutes Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gjohnson Posted February 7, 2022 Share Posted February 7, 2022 2 minutes ago, tgarve said: Just checked and it 20 minutes Presumably with google maps? Which always goes with no traffic at off peak times. In that situation it might be do-able, assuming you don't have to park, or hit any kind of obstruction whatsoever...and manage to avoid the absurd bus-lane scheme in Gateshead which no nav system has picked up yet. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben Posted February 7, 2022 Share Posted February 7, 2022 Stanley to Sunniside to Lobbly Hill, to Redhuegh bridge along the duel carrigeway 18 mins Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JNK Posted February 7, 2022 Share Posted February 7, 2022 22 hours ago, madras said: There's a great book "Home and Away" by Karl Ove Knausgaard and Frederik Ekelund and it's their letters to each other about football and life and culture, Karl loving the dour, workmanlike game and Frederik (living in Brazil) the exuberant and reckless. Think you'd like it. Gonna take a look, sounds interesting. Last great sports book I read was "Senna vs Prost", anyone who's a fan of one should read this book. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest HTT II Posted February 7, 2022 Share Posted February 7, 2022 40 minutes ago, JNK said: Gonna take a look, sounds interesting. Last great sports book I read was "Senna vs Prost", anyone who's a fan of one should read this book. Watched Ayrton Senna die live man Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JNK Posted February 7, 2022 Share Posted February 7, 2022 1 minute ago, HTT II said: Watched Ayrton Senna die live man On the track? That must've been rough. I was watching live, but on tv I was a 4y old, I remember the accident but only got what really happened the next day when I came home from school and his funeral was on tv, hit me like a truck. Cryed for days, I had a collection of every f1 car he ever drove made of wood at the time, for years I coudn't hear the "victory theme" the tv plays when a brazilian wins a race whithout crying, even today it brings me back. My first and biggest idol, to this day. Read all his biographies, I also have a hardcover book that even has copies of his school grade sheets. amazing stuff. That Senna vs Prost book is one of the best I ever read, highly recommend it. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest HTT II Posted February 7, 2022 Share Posted February 7, 2022 23 minutes ago, JNK said: On the track? That must've been rough. I was watching live, but on tv I was a 4y old, I remember the accident but only got what really happened the next day when I came home from school and his funeral was on tv, hit me like a truck. Cryed for days, I had a collection of every f1 car he ever drove made of wood at the time, for years I coudn't hear the "victory theme" the tv plays when a brazilian wins a race whithout crying, even today it brings me back. My first and biggest idol, to this day. Read all his biographies, I also have a hardcover book that even has copies of his school grade sheets. amazing stuff. That Senna vs Prost book is one of the best I ever read, highly recommend it. On telly I must had, horrific either way and what a legend. I loved F1 in those days! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
WarrenBartonCentrePartin Posted February 7, 2022 Share Posted February 7, 2022 6 hours ago, Ben said: Stanley to Sunniside to Lobbly Hill, to Redhuegh bridge along the duel carrigeway 18 mins Why bother with Route 66, the sweeping coastal roads of the Amalfi Coast or the Icelandic ring road when you can take the pleasurable drive between the thriving metropolis' of Stanley and Sunniside - finishing off with a pint of Carling in the latter's social clerb? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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