They averaged 17k a few seasons before getting into the top flight the year after football was invented.
It still remains one of few towns / cities where near enough everyone supports their local team. Burnley is another of them.
Quote from: Dave Clark Five on February 25, 2014, 05:34:11 PMIt still remains one of few towns / cities where near enough everyone supports their local team. Burnley is another of them.I suppose it helps that there's only one football club in Newcastle though.
Quote from: Clampy on February 25, 2014, 05:39:54 PMQuote from: Dave Clark Five on February 25, 2014, 05:34:11 PMIt still remains one of few towns / cities where near enough everyone supports their local team. Burnley is another of them.I suppose it helps that there's only one football club in Newcastle though.They could always support Man Utd or Chelsea. It doesn't stop millions of others.
Quote from: Dave Clark Five on February 25, 2014, 05:46:18 PMQuote from: Clampy on February 25, 2014, 05:39:54 PMQuote from: Dave Clark Five on February 25, 2014, 05:34:11 PMIt still remains one of few towns / cities where near enough everyone supports their local team. Burnley is another of them.I suppose it helps that there's only one football club in Newcastle though.They could always support Man Utd or Chelsea. It doesn't stop millions of others.They don't have so much of a cosmopolitan population in newcastle as many cities do - many pass their love of the toon through the generations - there are quite a few Geordies in the midlands and a lot came down from the colliery villages to work in the mines and stayed.
Quote from: eastie on February 25, 2014, 05:50:38 PMQuote from: Dave Clark Five on February 25, 2014, 05:46:18 PMQuote from: Clampy on February 25, 2014, 05:39:54 PMQuote from: Dave Clark Five on February 25, 2014, 05:34:11 PMIt still remains one of few towns / cities where near enough everyone supports their local team. Burnley is another of them.I suppose it helps that there's only one football club in Newcastle though.They could always support Man Utd or Chelsea. It doesn't stop millions of others.They don't have so much of a cosmopolitan population in newcastle as many cities do - many pass their love of the toon through the generations - there are quite a few Geordies in the midlands and a lot came down from the colliery villages to work in the mines and stayed.A lot of Geordie coal miners moved to Staffordshire in the mid Eighties because it was the only place they could get pit work. Littleton pit in Rugely was mostly Geordies at that time.
Quote from: Clampy on February 25, 2014, 05:39:54 PMQuote from: Dave Clark Five on February 25, 2014, 05:34:11 PMIt still remains one of few towns / cities where near enough everyone supports their local team. Burnley is another of them.I suppose it helps that there's only one football club in Newcastle though.I've always thought that that "one city, one club" as some type of arse kissing myth. I work up in that area every 5 weeks, I have lots of clients in the North East. It takes about twenty-odd minutes drive from Newcastle to Sunderland. Even shorter from other so called Geordie strongholds such as the Whitley Bay/Tynemouth area. Hardly stuck out in the middle of nowhere like, Plymouth or even Norwich. Geordie propaganda.