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BigPete said:
Moving to a bigger stadium than RP resulted in more people attending?

Well shit the bed surely that was the whole point... bigger stadium = bigger attendance
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Aye, because Roker Park was sold out every week. :rolleyes:

Your fans bought into the whole post Euro 96 football boom, and of course you had a very decent team to go and watch and a new all seater stadium meaning that women and kids started going to the games too. Much like our fans bought into the Premiership boom and a decent team coupled with a more modern stadium.
 
Reiver said:
Clubs will list anything as major honours man ..... Barcelona have the Pyrenees Cup on their role of honour with the Fair Cup, as they call it.

Newcastle have the Texaco Cup & Anglo-Italian Cup in their list of greatest achievements.

The Fairs Cup comes under the Charity Shield win against the Cobblers over 100 years ago :lol:

From the NUFC official website .....

United's greatest achievements

Club Honours

Football League Champions
1904-05; 1906-07; 1908-09; 1926-27
FA Premier League Runners-up 1996; 1997
FL Championship Winners 2010
FL Division One (Two) Champions 1993
FL Division Two Champions 1965
FL promotion to top division 1898; 1948; 1984; 1965; 1993
FA Cup Winners
1910 v Barnsley, Crystal Palace & Goodison Park
1924 v Aston Villa, Wembley Stadium
1932 v Arsenal, Wembley Stadium
1951 v Blackpool, Wembley Stadium
1952 v Arsenal, Wembley Stadium
1955 v Manchester City

FA Cup Runners-up
1905 v Aston Villa, Crystal Palace
1906 v Everton, Crystal Palace
1908 v Wolverhampton Wanderers, Crystal Palace
1911 v Bradford City, Crystal Palace & Old Trafford
1974 v Liverpool, Wembley Stadium
1998 v Arsenal, Wembley Stadium
1999 v Manchester United, Wembley Stadium

Football League Cup Runners-Up
1976 v Manchester City, Wembley Stadium

FA Charity Shield Winners
1909 v Northampton Town

FA Charity Shield Runners-up
1932, 1951, 1952, 1955, 1996

European Fairs Cup Winners
1969 v Ujpesti Dosza, St James' Park & Ujpest

ICFC/UEFA Cup entry
1968/69, 1969/70, 1970/71, 1977/78, 1994/95, 1996/97, 1999/00, 2003/04,2004/05

UEFA Champions League entry
1997/98 2002/2003

European Cup Winners Cup entry
1998/99

Texaco Cup Winners
1974; 1975

Anglo-Italian Cup Winners
1973
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Reiver said:
I can't remember all the details tbh, Look North didn't report much about the early rounds.

From memory I think Newcastle only finished 10th but Everton, and perhaps Chelsea who finished much higher, were excluded because of the 'trade fair rule'.
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There was only one club per city allowed. Everton were excluded because Liverpool took part.
 
NU72 said:
There was only one club per city allowed. Everton were excluded because Liverpool took part.
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It was a poor system that was changed in an attempt to give the competition some credibility.

"Among the changes was the abandonment of the "one city one team" rule, which had had a particularly bad effect on English entrants for 1969–70, when Liverpool (2nd), Arsenal (4th),
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