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I was just a young lad, where I lived it was 50/50 between NUFC/ SAFC supporters. Almost all of the NUFC supporters wanted SAFC to win in 73. The following year almost all of the SAFC supporters wanted Liverpool to win. Really does stick in my mind, never wanted SAFC to win any game since and my...

His brother, Kevin, lives round the corner from me. Newcastle let him go as a schoolboy and Dennis twice thought he was coming here to play, once when he left City and again after he finished with NYC. Fantastic player, proud Geordie, pity about his cup win with the Mackems and that overhead kick.

It’s just another means to pull the draw bridge up and protect the “Big 6”. It’ll be the American brigade banging the drum. Wave after wave of rule changes to prevent NUFC and Villa getting any kind of foothold at the top in the hope that they’ll stop trying. Can only hope that the likes of Sky...

Apparently VAR chose to show the referee a couple of stills showing the ball hitting Livramento’s elbow and a slow mo from an innocuous angle where you couldn’t see the ball hitting his chest. Meanwhile on his way to the monitor the VAR was telling the ref why it was a penalty. The ref then...

Could have ended 8-3 and that is just including clear cut chances. Villa played suicide football in the 2nd half. I’m expecting the usual spanking at The Etihad. We have real lack of pace at the back. I can see us picking up soft yellow cards that will impact our press and leave spaces for...

Dennis’ brother lives round the corner from me. Says at FT Dennis (who was Newcastle daft and was released by Newcastle as a youngster and twice thought he’d agreed to join us after City and then when he was in the USA) sought him and his mates out in the crowd and gave them a wave. There’s a...

We’ve been very considered in all our actions and signings. We’ve consistently mentioned how we’re restricted by FFP. I can’t see us suddenly deciding, what the hell, let’s stick 2 fingers up and loan Neves. The shirt sponsorship deal we’ve signed with Sela was, it could be argued, slightly...

The Fulham player tries a couple of step overs and then stands on Trippier’s foot which stops him getting to the ball with his right foot. It’s a foul. For the Burn incident VAR would have intervened as the Fulham player handles the ball before the (very light) pull. Without putting any bias...

Fulham player stamps on Trippier’s right shin/ foot before Trippier makes any contact. It wasn’t a penalty. You could argue on the Burn shirt pull but it wasn’t clear and obvious (I thought the player went down at the slightest touch). We were given a free kick just outside the box when...

Re Joelinton, he was never a centre forward. Rafa didn’t fancy him and Ashley apparently put up 20M for the deal to happen thinking we could turn him into a centre forward and make money on him. Rafa left, we bought Joelinton and 12th choice candidate Bruce became manager. We didn’t have any...

Sorry for your loss Mick, lost my Dad 4 years ago to a brain tumour, awful. These crowd debates prove nothing and have no bearing on an individual’s support so let me get that out of the way. I attended most home games during the early 80’s and have to say that our crowds deserved to be less...

I’m convinced Sam would have taken us down. We were in a completely false position. I can’t be arsed to look it up but we collected a ridiculous amount of points from late, undeserved, goals. He tried to impose his tactics with a squad that wasn’t suited to it. I remember Amdy Faye being used a...

This was Bruno’s dad in the away end at OT. The bloke is living his best life following his son around. Hope Bruno stays with us for a good few years, he’s top class as both a player and a person. We’re doing a pretty good job of getting players with the right character and who are actually...

The fact that Bruce had managed Sunderland was neither here nor there tbh, barely even registered with me. Loads of players have played for both. They have a statue of a Geordie in front of their ground who won the cup as a NUFC player. The thing with Bruce is that he was a “boyhood” fan he’s...

Not getting into any debate about owners etc but Bruce had a win rate of 28% and net spend of over 90M. We got out of jail last season and despite the fact that Wilson is made of glass he decided we didn’t need another striker as we had Joelinton and Gayle. He did an awful job, this season the...

For the good of the game you have to hope that Ashley manages to expose the PL for the utter contempt and bias they have shown in all of this and who the cohorts are. There seems to be fairly strong evidence that the PL broke their own confidentiality rules to tip others off and have used...

I compared the urban areas, Newcastle city has about 250k. The teams you mention aren’t taking huge numbers from you. We both have fans that travel to home games from around the country but, that’s only really recent thing. Manchester as a city and area is in a different stratosphere to...

I’ve given facts not opinions. I haven’t stumbled into RAWK by mistake have I?

I should add that I’m not having a go, I’m just showing how easy it is to mix and match figures to paint whatever version of the truth you want.

There you go, randomly picking out stats without context. You averaged less than 20k in 1988 and less than 15k in 1965. We averaged over 56k in 1948 in Div 2. In 1989 Chelsea averaged less than 16k while winning Div 2 and had an average of less than 13 a few years before that. We’ve been...