Newcastle fans

Psychedelic Casual said:
Yeah me too, even when they signed Shauny Wright and I was pretty heart broken, I still wished him well and applauded him when he came back to play against us. There wasn’t a single boo in the stadium, no reaction like Liverpool fans with Sterling and Sterling didn’t even come through their academy

(although we let ourselves down with the way we reacted to Distin and Sturridge in the past)
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Maybe with Distin, but Sturridge deserves the abuse imo.
 
schfc6 said:
Yep, we're on about the same game. I had mates up there at Uni, spent plenty of time up there.
We were in a big boozer right in town, so not far at all from the ground.
I remember a great atmosphere and us being screwed by the ref.
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I recall the lights of Newcastle twinkling over the top of the stand at the opposite end to us. It was fucking high up there.
Yeah, match was a pisser but our pub crew had a great day out.
 
tweety said:
Nothing changes, can remember them charging the police horses at Maine Road back in the eighties. They've always been idiots and usually the worst fans to visit us.
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Idiots yes, but what about Birmingham fans - always trying to recreate the 70s and 80s hooli days at our place.
 
I was right next to the guy that tried to jump the barriers. He must have been about 55 years old age with a quite obvious sun bed and steroid addiction. Sad!

The showsec stewards who are perfectly happy to manhandle OAPs out of the ground en masse stayed cowering at the front leaving their colleague , some young student looking fella at the fence to hold the fella and his mob back almost single handlerley for the rest of the game. Cowards!


No sign of the police who were more than likely busy dealing with a major crime elsewhere , ie some one smoking in the bogs. Crime doesn’t crack itself. Priorities!

There was another two kicks off city on city as well. Not sure what started that but Both came to blows. I was sat in a hug over stupor thinkkng how Glad I am to be getting back to the relative safety of the corps for the next few games and the rustling of sweet wrAppers
 
We were walking by City square nearly an hour after the match had ended and could hear 2 idiots shouting city #ankers manc #unts etc....
They had tried to get served there and told to leave by the looks of it.
I was walking with my little lad and thought here we go :/
When they came into sight walking towards us still giving abuse as they left the area laughing between them like they were 10 men....
Both of them about 16-19 years old
6 stonne wet, they looked up at me smirk went on face and heads went down. I was with a 9 year old ffs :-D absolute dickheads but every club has them. A female steward saw it and looked at me and laughed.

Does anyone know what the Geordie lass was carrying on about next to 111? with the barcode dress shirt on with glasses on? she was embarrasing.
 
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Lancet Fluke said:
Did you really resent those clubs getting investment? I am surprised. I didn't resent it at all, I enjoyed watching Blackburn pip united to the title on the last day and they were my "second club" all that season. Same with Newcastle under Keegan, I was desperate for them to win the title that year they capitulated and always liked the fact that the money Chelsea had enabled them to put the brakes on united's dominance. Not once did I begrudge any of those clubs, just hoped they would use their spending power to stop united.
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It was more born out of the "I wish it was us" mentality than anything else. Seeing similar or less clubs doing better than us was hard to take. I'd become indifferent to United's success in the 90s. We were getting worse and worse while they just kicked on and got bigger and better. Of course, I'd rather they had pipped United to the title at the time, but I still wanted it to be us!
 
gkmcfc said:
It was more born out of the "I wish it was us" mentality than anything else. Seeing similar or less clubs doing better than us was hard to take. I'd become indifferent to United's success in the 90s. We were getting worse and worse while they just kicked on and got bigger and better. Of course, I'd rather they had pipped United to the title at the time, but I still wanted it to be us!
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I remember talking to a colleague who is a united fan the week we got bought and he was delighted that it had happened. Said he thought it would be great because Liverpool would drop out of the Champions League places. Suspect he doesn't feel the same now.
 
Lancet Fluke said:
I remember talking to a colleague who is a united fan the week we got bought and he was delighted that it had happened. Said he thought it would be great because Liverpool would drop out of the Champions League places. Suspect he doesn't feel the same now.
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He was right though. Probably never envisaged they would too lol.
 
Psychedelic Casual said:
Yeah me too, even when they signed Shauny Wright and I was pretty heart broken, I still wished him well and applauded him when he came back to play against us. There wasn’t a single boo in the stadium, no reaction like Liverpool fans with Sterling and Sterling didn’t even come through their academy

(although we let ourselves down with the way we reacted to Distin and Sturridge in the past)
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Sturridge came across as moving for specific reasons other than football MONEY and its been proved throughout his career that money is the biggest factor in his life, not winning trophies, international caps etc.

The fact he wouldn't stay and fight for a place also came into the equation, he wanted quick fix to the money train and to embrace his ego.

All this after the investment we had made in him when he just started out and support we gave him

Distin was a very good player and I think most of us were gutted with his choices.
 
Thoroughly enjoyed Saturday in 314 with my 13 year old lad, my seat is right next to the away fans, he was pissing his sides laughing at all the 16 year old lads in the Newcastle end with their tops off offering every City fan out!

The 2 geordies who tried jumping the barrier in the second half were, at a guess, 50 year old men who should really know better, they were that tough about 5 stewards managed with relative ease to keep them in their own end.

Im about 3 or 4 rows behind where the lad get racially abused causing the City on City aggro if anyone knows him feel free to tell him to pm me as I saw it all
 
lancs blue said:
My feelings exactly, I had wanted us to get some decent investment ever since Joe Mercer left but that was never going to happen with Swales in charge. I was never going to resent any other club giving the rags a hard time.
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It goes beyond "giving the rags a hard time" for me. That's just an added bonus. Fact is that I've never begrudged any club getting a rich owner, regardless of any possible impact on United challenging for trophies. If we cast our minds back to Blackburn and Jack Walker buying them, that was early in the 1991-92 season and United were yet to be hugely successful under Ferguson so weren't the team to beat anyway. Blackburn were something like mid-table in the 2nd division at the time and I just thought it was great for the Blackburn fans, as Walker clearly meant business from the off with bids flying in for Lineker, etc, and that was before Dalglish even took over as manager.

Some posters are saying we might've felt differently if it was a club that came in and pushed us further down the league but it could be argued Blackburn did exactly that, considering we finished 5th in the first division in 1992 and apart from a bad run of results around March time we wouldn't have been far off challenging for the title. At the same time, Blackburn were getting promoted and would go on to finish comfortably higher than us the following season but I never felt any resentment towards them for "taking our place".
 
gazinho said:
Thoroughly enjoyed Saturday in 314 with my 13 year old lad, my seat is right next to the away fans, he was pissing his sides laughing at all the 16 year old lads in the Newcastle end with their tops off offering every City fan out!

The 2 geordies who tried jumping the barrier in the second half were, at a guess, 50 year old men who should really know better, they were that tough about 5 stewards managed with relative ease to keep them in their own end.

Im about 3 or 4 rows behind where the lad get racially abused causing the City on City aggro if anyone knows him feel free to tell him to pm me as I saw it all
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Never seen racial abuse at the etihad in 16 years.. thats so sad :( What race was it directed at? Why would someone whos a blue racially abuse another blue? Terrible..
 
Never forget the animals in the mid eighties As it just so happens they battered us 5-0 at SJP in the old Division Two I was in the City end when thousands of the bastards got into our end not pleasant , but god help us if we had actually got a favourable result The only consolation that day was winning the football team card on A Coach and getting a big hug from the late great Helen ( ring your bell Hel )
 
Remember the shit we had with these at the Clarence. Something about that pub and ****s from the North East as IIRC those boro ****s were at it one year. Anyway the most fairweather "loyal" fans you'll find; deluded set of ****s.
 
aguerooooo said:
Never forget the animals in the mid eighties As it just so happens they battered us 5-0 at SJP in the old Division Two I was in the City end when thousands of the bastards got into our end not pleasant , but god help us if we had actually got a favourable result The only consolation that day was winning the football team card on A Coach and getting a big hug from the late great Helen ( ring your bell Hel )
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Thousands? Those pens behind the goal only held about 1500. In the pen I was in there was about 10 who got it at full time. It did kick off badly in the other section but I really couldnt see what was happening apart from a newcastle fan being taken away on a stretcher. There was a big crew afterwards trying to get at our coaches, the police dealt with that. The geordies were asking us if they could walk in our escort to the ground so they clearly wanted to, and did get in our end.
 
M18CTID said:
It goes beyond "giving the rags a hard time" for me. That's just an added bonus. Fact is that I've never begrudged any club getting a rich owner, regardless of any possible impact on United challenging for trophies. If we cast our minds back to Blackburn and Jack Walker buying them, that was early in the 1991-92 season and United were yet to be hugely successful under Ferguson so weren't the team to beat anyway. Blackburn were something like mid-table in the 2nd division at the time and I just thought it was great for the Blackburn fans, as Walker clearly meant business from the off with bids flying in for Lineker, etc, and that was before Dalglish even took over as manager.

Some posters are saying we might've felt differently if it was a club that came in and pushed us further down the league but it could be argued Blackburn did exactly that, considering we finished 5th in the first division in 1992 and apart from a bad run of results around March time we wouldn't have been far off challenging for the title. At the same time, Blackburn were getting promoted and would go on to finish comfortably higher than us the following season but I never felt any resentment towards them for "taking our place".
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Good point that about how united hadn't really established themselves as dominant by then. I look back and just remember loving it because they beat united to the title but actually now you mention it, at no point did I feel any resentment at all. The narrative across the media was that it was a fairy tale when it was Blackburn whereas with us the narrative in the media right from the start has been that it is an utter disgrace and ruining the game. And as we know from lots of things to do with the media and the public and City, it's sheep we're up against.
 
Anyone who thinks City “won the lottery” need to take a closer look at the facts. Soon after we moved into , what was at the time , The City Of Manchester stadium , we had a guy on the board called Alistair MacIntosh. The club was looking for investment , possibly from abroad , and sent MacIntosh on a 6 month tour around the globe to seek out potential investors. As a result , Thaksin Shinawatra from Thailand , became the major shareholder. Some time later of course , Shinawatra had criminal accusations to answer to in his native land , and as such , could not continue in his role at the club. His representatives approached His Highness Sheik Mansour , of the Abu Dhabi Emarati Royal Family , and the rest , as they say is history. Modern day football at the highest level , has long been dependent on “outside investment” , since Sky TV and other sponsors , started to plough serious amounts of money into the game. So rather than “winning the lottery” I would suggest that what City did , was recognise how the game was to be financed in the future , would be completely different to what had taken place in the past. Man Utd recently signed a record breaking sponsorship kit deal for £750 million , outside investment that is no different to what the ADU group have been doing at City. As I recall , Everton fans (the people’s club - apparently) were amongst the biggest critics of what had happened at City - yet Bill Kenwright sold the club to an Arab billionaire. I don’t hear any protests from Everton fans about that though. Similarly , if Sheikh Mansour would have offered to buy Newcastle off Ashley , would the Geordie fans have had a big protest against the deal ? - saying “nah thanks pet - we divvin want nah Arab billionaires at our club”. Bitterness and jealousy are indeed 2 words that spring to mind . In contrast , I was at the LC final a few years ago - we beat Sunderland- and their fans stood on the ramparts after the game and , despite losing , applauded City fans all the way back to their coaches.
 
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