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If by 'they' we're meaning Jenas, Dyer, Bellamy and Shearer (again) (who'd have thunk it, after he was dropped) then yes they hounded him out.
If we mean the fans booing the team, we shouldn't be talking about 'rewriting' things.
Along with the Kelly own goal for Leicester theory I've got to put my foot down on this one. Convinced it never really happened as was well into my football at the time and remember the chaos they were in at the start of that season, and the hoped end of their competing for the CL
 
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Foggers said:
If by 'they' we're meaning Jenas, Dyer, Bellamy and Shearer (again) (who'd have thunk it, after he was dropped) then yes they hounded him out.
If we mean the fans booing the team, we shouldn't be talking about 'rewriting' things.
Along with the Kelly own goal for Leicester theory I've got to put my foot down on this one. Convinced it never really happened as was well into my football at the time and remember the chaos they were in at the start of that season, and the hoped end of their competing for the CL
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Bisto.
 
Foggers said:
If by 'they' we're meaning Jenas, Dyer, Bellamy and Shearer (again) (who'd have thunk it, after he was dropped) then yes they hounded him out.
If we mean the fans booing the team, we shouldn't be talking about 'rewriting' things.
Along with the Kelly own goal for Leicester theory I've got to put my foot down on this one. Convinced it never really happened as was well into my football at the time and remember the chaos they were in at the start of that season, and the hoped end of their competing for the CL
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Feel free to totally overlook this, it's long and likely boring to most.


I was against being took over. I was happy with Ashley in terms of the club being run as a stable club even if we did struggle.
I've been up and down with this thought and changing my stance periodically when seeing dross played out and then seeing a rejuvenated push...etc, plus the ongoing hatred for Ashley putting a damper on everything and also the focus always being on hate before anything becoming tedious to the point of sickening by certain sections of fans/people.

I was that low I guaranteed us relegation after seeing us play depressing football with the Brighton game getting me questioning the manager, players...etc. I was convinced we were on our way to be relegated.

As an almost lifelong Newcastle fan I've come to expect better. Why?.....That's just it........WHY?
A head full of sleeping giant and a big city, one club and steeped in history and blah blah blah.

The keegan years gave me a snob like mindset and it gave many people a team to hang onto until everything fell apart. You know, the diluties.

I've followed Newcastle throughout the good bad and ugly, as well as indifferent times since the early 70's.
Before that I simply lived on the history.

I'll always be a Newcastle united fan as long as it always resembles what I know to be a football club, whether that's in the premier league or the non league. Whether it's with Macky McMackem owing the club and the club having half a squad of Sunderland/boro/pools/darlo....etc players or a squad full of cowdenbeath reserves, signed.

Would I be happy about it? Obviously not. Would I change my allegiance? Absolutely not.


Do I want the best for the club? Yes.
Do I want it handed to me on a silver platter like many big clubs have?.....This is the issue. I didn't but football is so corrupt and has lost its grass roots identity in the elite type leagues over the countries...and by that I mean it's already been sold to the devil (so to speak)....then YES. I change my stance until football gets back to grass roots...if ever.

I have a mindset of, why should we be cannon fodder for the elite clubs. Play toys to further their agendas.

I've decided to go with the flow and just have an attitude of, what will be, will be.
If that means we get taken over by the devil or Dickie Dark, or a board of ravenous zombies who send out Jason and the argonaut like skeletons into battle on the field, or a team full of Cillian Mbappe type, then so be it.

If the owners have blank cheques and ever emptying wallets for the cause, then put it on the pitch and let me enjoy it with the full knowledge that I will be witnessing another club that is turned into a plastic haven for fans to jump onboard...but I will be full on in the knowledge that I would be a massive hypocrite.

It's like this.
We all pretend we're happy slugging it out to finish closest to the elites but the potential reality for most is,w e want to be them. We want teams fearing us and we all want the best players and would be happy with whatever owners provide them, as long as the club isn't compromised on the back of hard talk and shallow wallets.

Basically we pretend we don't want it all but in reality, we do.
I want it all. I want it all.
 
jlaws said:
23 years? Was that just in time to see the 3-2 over Barca? RU, RU and SF in the FA-Cup.

Had that group of fans witnessed a few relegation scraps and relegation they wouldn't have stuck with it. Many have thrown in the towel already due to Ashley.
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TBF they have been relegated twice in that time.
 
Qwerty said:
TBF they have been relegated twice in that time.
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True, but came straight back up as Champs.

Point being the fella who can't take any more started his supporting journey with some fantastic memories...that hopefully won't be repeated.
 
Foggers said:
If by 'they' we're meaning Jenas, Dyer, Bellamy and Shearer (again) (who'd have thunk it, after he was dropped) then yes they hounded him out.
If we mean the fans booing the team, we shouldn't be talking about 'rewriting' things.
Along with the Kelly own goal for Leicester theory I've got to put my foot down on this one. Convinced it never really happened as was well into my football at the time and remember the chaos they were in at the start of that season, and the hoped end of their competing for the CL
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You were ‘well into your football at the time’?

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Arkle said:
I wasn't aware that York reached a cup semi-final...
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That 1955 final was the first I ever saw, i was visiting relatives on Teesside and my uncle had built a television cum china cabinet from Practical Television, mags won 3-1 I think, I was 8 then and not moved, more excited about the train journey home and getting more numbers.
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Correct. We often went to Sid James's when the Lads were away, but mainly to see great early 60s top division sides like Spurs, Wolves and ManU in action. Also, I knew a lad from The Lane, Colin Clish, who was a youth player for the Mags and he got a few games for the first team, so I had an interest in that. I vividly remember going with my mates to Ayresome to watch him play a in cup replay one freezing night. At the time a little gang of us were footy mad, and would never miss a game at Roker. I would guess your uncle was the same.
Different times.
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I went with a mate for a while in 1959-61. Stopped going past Central Station found thevtrains more exciting. March 1962, scored at the derby 2-2 draw. She was Elizabeth from Hollywood Avenue, a year older than. Spent so much on her busfare, then train to North ashields, ferry to South Shields, finances so strained had to walk home to Marsden in the rain, worth it though.
 
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That 1955 final was the first I ever saw, i was visiting relatives on Teesside and my uncle had built a television cum china cabinet from Practical Television, mags won 3-1 I think, I was 8 then and not moved, more excited about the train journey home and getting more numbers.

I went with a mate for a while in 1959-61. Stopped going past Central Station found thevtrains more exciting. March 1962, scored at the derby 2-2 draw. She was Elizabeth from Hollywood Avenue, a year older than. Spent so much on her busfare, then train to North ashields, ferry to South Shields, finances so strained had to walk home to Marsden in the rain, worth it though.
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It's hard now to think that not so long ago people would watch all North east teams. Its so partisan now it just seems mad, but my dad tells similar stories.
 
Sabre Mag said:
It's hard now to think that not so long ago people would watch all North east teams. Its so partisan now it just seems mad, but my dad tells similar stories.
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The thing thst really stopped us in 1961 was a mag peed down my mate’s back, I don’t think he knew much about it but we headed for the exit. It was winter and the train’s heater was full on, the electrics were compartments in those days and he stank the place out. It was quite usual to go to both 61 was the year they were relegated Thet scored plenty of goal but defence was rubbish. I realised that copping Redgauntlet 60137, Peppercorn A1 was mire exciting. Nothing beat the evening in Gosforth though, but I couldn’t afford to repeat it.
 
redgauntlet said:
The thing thst really stopped us in 1961 was a mag peed down my mate’s back, I don’t think he knew much about it but we headed for the exit. It was winter and the train’s heater was full on, the electrics were compartments in those days and he stank the place out. It was quite usual to go to both 61 was the year they were relegated Thet scored plenty of goal but defence was rubbish. I realised that copping Redgauntlet 60137, Peppercorn A1 was mire exciting. Nothing beat the evening in Gosforth though, but I couldn’t afford to repeat it.
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Haha bloody hell, nobody needs pee down their back minds. I wonder what changed really when it started to become much more tribal? Love the stories people have from back then like. One of the lads I go with is nearly 70 and he has some belters, and he used to go to Boro as well when he was young.
 
I noticed it getting worse in the mid 60s, then again in the 70s when is was getting really nasty culminating with the pitch invasion during the play off game. I don’t think it ever recovered from that. Now there’s no fun I’m too embarassed to talk about what has become of us. All thanks to a Yank who employed numpties, grew tired and strangled us. Yanks go home.i’m 74 from the days when men was menand wimmin…………..
 
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Sabre Mag said:
It's hard now to think that not so long ago people would watch all North east teams. Its so partisan now it just seems mad, but my dad tells similar stories.
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I was brought up a bit like that. My Dad was Sunderland by default of living in Durham, and followed them.
But we would go to Middlesbrough or Newcastle if one of his mates were going, or there was an interesting cup tie

My grandad was more interested in Amateur football, but in later life watched Darlington a lot as it was local. So I watched a fair bit of them with him as well.

Being honest, as a kid I probably saw more matches at other northeast clubs than I ever did at Sunderland, even though I was supposedly a Sunderland fan

It's only really since I moved away from the Northeast that I really started following Sunderland properly.
 
Its all very pleasant in this thread nowadays.

What happened to that Exile fella who used to trawl the internet for Mag related stuff to spontaneously combust over?
 
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