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To be fair they are supposed to.

I'ts actually grew on me a bit, I would have preferred a more plain flag but now I like the four crests, and the magpie/crows.
I am actually gutted I won't be there tonight, of all the games I have been to this season this is one that I would now like to attend, Bloody work :(
I like the crests, I like the idea of the stars to represent trophies, I like the "We are United", but the cartoon Magpies look a bit shit.
 

Right, I'm not going to go through each of those, but have each of them in monochrome and they're indistinguishable from crows. Magpies are a type of crow. That's a taxonomical fact. :lol: They've taken an old cartoon magpie used by the club in the past and stuck it on a banner. The new slant that somehow it's indicative of an underlying racial issue at Newcastle, is f***ing hilarious by the way.

End of the day, the lads behind Gallowgate flags could have knocked up a modern masterpiece and you mithering buggers would still try to mock it. It's in your DNA.

All magpies are corvidae. I think you're being disingenuous by pretending not to realise that it doesn't follow that all crows are magpies. Most crows are not magpies.

The best thing about this thread is probably that in real life, crows don't have yellow beaks either. Only the dodgy ones from Dumbo and Ki Ora really sport them. (I wasn't aware NUFC had previously used these non-magpies, but I intend to find it equally funny each and every time they do).
 
All magpies are corvidae. I think you're being disingenuous by pretending not to realise that it doesn't follow that all crows are magpies. Most crows are not magpies.

The best thing about this thread is probably that in real life, crows don't have yellow beaks either. Only the dodgy ones from Dumbo and Ki Ora really sport them. (I wasn't aware NUFC had previously used these non-magpies, but I intend to find it equally funny each and every time they do).
Do not bamboozle the Nostradamus of Numpties with facts mate, he will be googling away trying to find some big words to reply with, he often uses his googled words in the wrong context and makes himself look even more foolish than his fake internet persona was initially perceived.

@Reiver has caught him out on a number of occasions I believe.
 
Do not bamboozle the Nostradamus of Numpties with facts mate, he will be googling away trying to find some big words to reply with, he often uses his googled words in the wrong context and makes himself look even more foolish than his fake internet persona was initially perceived.

@Reiver has caught him out on a number of occasions I believe.


His erroneous, not to say, perfidious extrapolation of non-consequential expressions is raillery in the extreme ;)
 
I like the crests, I like the idea of the stars to represent trophies, I like the "We are United", but the cartoon Magpies look a bit shit.

What do you think of those creepy seahorse creatures ........ obviously air breathing but with flippers and scales, some unkind people might say 'pond life' :lol:

Is that another way to say he's a clueless knacker

Aye, canny spot marra ;)
 
Aye. The beaten finalists in 1958 were London, that famous old club.

What a competition to crow about.

A selection of the teams in the 1969 Fairs Cup

Panathanaikos
Chelsea
Rangers
Athletic Bilbao
Liverpool
Juventus
Eintracht Frankfurt
Real Zaragoza
Sporting Lisbon
Valencia
Feyenoord
Lyon
Nice
Dynamo Zagreb
Fiorentina
Rapid Bucharest
Bologna
FC Basel
Marseille
Metz
Salvia Prague
Hamburg
Standard Liege
Leeds
Grasshopper
Napoli
AIK Gothenburg
Hannover
Athletico Madrid
Legia Warsaw
1860 Munich

Hardly a Mickey Mouse tournament
 
You're wasting your time, man.

Some will be along to say it's so irrelevant a match was decided by the comical event of 'drawing lots' despite it happening at the World Cup 13 years later.
 
A selection of the teams in the 1969 Fairs Cup

Panathanaikos
Chelsea
Rangers
Athletic Bilbao
Liverpool
Juventus
Eintracht Frankfurt
Real Zaragoza
Sporting Lisbon
Valencia
Feyenoord
Lyon
Nice
Dynamo Zagreb
Fiorentina
Rapid Bucharest
Bologna
FC Basel
Marseille
Metz
Salvia Prague
Hamburg
Standard Liege
Leeds
Grasshopper
Napoli
AIK Gothenburg
Hannover
Athletico Madrid
Legia Warsaw
1860 Munich

Hardly a Mickey Mouse tournament

Not particularly wanting to get dragged into yet another dull debate about the Fairs Cup but there are teams you've mentioned that didn't even finish in the top half of the table when they qualified for the 68/69 cup.
 
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All magpies are corvidae. I think you're being disingenuous by pretending not to realise that it doesn't follow that all crows are magpies. Most crows are not magpies.

The best thing about this thread is probably that in real life, crows don't have yellow beaks either. Only the dodgy ones from Dumbo and Ki Ora really sport them. (I wasn't aware NUFC had previously used these non-magpies, but I intend to find it equally funny each and every time they do).

I never said most crows were magpies. I said magpies were a type of crow.

What do you think of those creepy seahorse creatures ........ obviously air breathing but with flippers and scales, some unkind people might say 'pond life' :lol:



Aye, canny spot marra ;)

I like them because they're ingrained in our history, and inexorably linked to our city. Can't think why you don't like them, it's a real mystery. :lol:
 
I never said most crows were magpies. I said magpies were a type of crow.



I like them because they're ingrained in our history, and inexorably linked to our city. Can't think why you don't like them, it's a real mystery. :lol:
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Interpretation
The castle motif goes back to earliest times. Originally the town took its name from the "New Castle" built by order of Robert Curthose, eldest son of William the Conqueror, in 1080 and a castle was depicted on the twelfth century common seal. The earliest surviving example of the three silver castles on a red shield, dating from about 1400, is in the window on the north side of the Chancel in St. John's Church. The castle motif is repeated in the crest which is a golden lion atop a silver castle. He is holding the golden staff of St. George's pennon. The castle stands upon a wreath of red and white leaves above a fifteenth century style helmet. The supporters, two mythical sea-horses shaded in green with gold manes, fins and tails, are a reminder that Newcastle is a seaport. Both the supporters and crest were added to the shield by grant of William Flower, Norroy King of Arms, in 1575. The motto, 'Fortiter Defendit Triumphans' ('Triumphing by Brave Defence') was adopted during the Civil War, following the stubborn defence of the town against the Scots in 1644.
 
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Interpretation
The castle motif goes back to earliest times. Originally the town took its name from the "New Castle" built by order of Robert Curthose, eldest son of William the Conqueror, in 1080 and a castle was depicted on the twelfth century common seal. The earliest surviving example of the three silver castles on a red shield, dating from about 1400, is in the window on the north side of the Chancel in St. John's Church. The castle motif is repeated in the crest which is a golden lion atop a silver castle. He is holding the golden staff of St. George's pennon. The castle stands upon a wreath of red and white leaves above a fifteenth century style helmet. The supporters, two mythical sea-horses shaded in green with gold manes, fins and tails, are a reminder that Newcastle is a seaport. Both the supporters and crest were added to the shield by grant of William Flower, Norroy King of Arms, in 1575. The motto, 'Fortiter Defendit Triumphans' ('Triumphing by Brave Defence') was adopted during the Civil War, following the stubborn defence of the town against the Scots in 1644.
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