Sob on the Tyne Part 2

[Chico Hamilton III]

Come on Villa, haven't we got any spare tickets we can give the moaning bastards? maybe somewhere half a mile up in the air where they'll need binoculars to see the action and where they'll never be heard by the players.

[Chris Harte]

I have generally met very decent Newcastle fans and admire their support for a team that has never bothered trophy polishers in my lifetime, and I'm 53. I missed the 2009 game as I had moved to China about 5 days beforehand, but thought the mockery sounded OTT - probably different and more fun if you were actually in the ground though. Singing and piss taking sounds natural, but making banners seemed strange to me. Make a banner to support Villa, not one that will be used once about a team we don't care about.

As I remember it was massively exaggerated. The banner was like, meh, why even do that for them? Coventry, I'd have got it?

I've no doubt there was some piss-taking, but in truth the thing has been blown up. I'm sure I've told the story on here before now of having a Newcastle fan fuming and glowering at me on the first night of last year's summer holiday on the Costa del Sol purely for the team I supported. Seemed very bitter with me for it.

Maybe they all still remember the YouTube video taken before the game on Broad Street where Alan "personality" Shearer took his squad for a walk - not the smartest move on the blisteringly hot day on a Sunday with a bank holiday the following day. Queue all the tanked up hoards taking the piss. I'm sure someone will find it.

[dave.woodhall]

How do they know we have 15,000 unsold tickets - which we haven't anyway -?

[Bottom Right 89]

How do they know we have 15,000 unsold tickets - which we haven't anyway -?

I checked availability last night whilst there are still pockets dotted around the upper sections, the Lower North and Holte are filling up nicely and mostly only single riders left. 15000 is way off the mark. I also had a go at buying a ticket off Seatwave to see how easy it was for aways to get in - the odd belly'oot idiot might infiltrate our ranks don't think they will be getting in en masse.

I understand its a big game for them but I think we're too soft when it comes to away teams - we give them pitchside seats and a generous 3k, how many 3k allocations do we get a season? Its not an FA Cup tie hope the ticket office tell em to fuck off and maybe consider giving us seats below cloud level next time we're up there.

[PeterWithesShin]

Pretty sure PL regulations are 3K or 10% of capacity to away fans, whichever amount is smaller.

[wally58]

Had a row with a Newcastle fan on first day of my holiday last year while we were at the card table. He said ` I used to like your little club but don`t anymore`. At which point I said `Don`t tell me, the Ant & Dec banner.
He replied `yes`. At which point I told him we weren`t `A little club but one that had won much more than they had. He couldn`t get over the fact that we had local competition for our support & they were a club in a one horse town. I got told off by Mrs Wally `for spoiling the start of the holiday.   

[Ads]

You should have started offering him out from behind a metal barrier, while filming the whole none event on your mobile phone. It seems to be the Geordie way.

[oldhill_avfc]

I don't buy this "most loyal fans" nonsense. Newcastle and Sunderland fans are no different to any other club's supporters. I also don't buy the "hotbed" of football description of the North East. 2 clubs, 15 miles apart? we've got 2 clubs within 3 miles of us  - and Wolves and Cov are both as far from us as Newcastle from Sunderland.

I've got nothing against either of them, except when the media trot out the lazy "loyal supporters" bollocks.

 

They are both one team cities and have a massive catchment area.  Sunderland must be amongst the biggest underachievers in the English game.

Sunderland
6 first division championships
2 fa cups
1 world football chamionship (!!)

[martin o`who??]

I`m fully aware of the recent friction but i still don`t understand any of this, i genuinely do not give a care about them any more than Rotherham or the bloody Billericay Red Lion.

[Archbishop Herbert Cockthrottle]

I`m fully aware of the recent friction but i still don`t understand any of this, i genuinely do not give a care about them any more than Rotherham or the bloody Billericay Red Lion.

I hate the Billericay Red Lion.

Splitters.

[Jimbo]

Newcastle fans are being very precious over this. Cast your minds back. For weeks prior to this game, football fans the length and breadth of Britain were rubbing their hands in gleeful anticipation at their impending exit. I guess they'd had enough of the Geordie Nation myth, the big-bellied braggadocio, the everybody's-second-favourites bullshit.

In the build up to the game, I even had bluenoses wishing us well against them. If I'm not mistaken, they had their own little spat with the the precious Geordies a few years prior.

It just so happened that it was us who sent them on their way, but it could have been anybody, and whoever it was, it would have been with equal joy. The thing is, Birmingham people are good at bringing inflated nonsense back down to earth with a bang. The best. Brum is where the phrase 'all kippers and curtains' originated, and no club better fits that description than Newcastle. They were sent packing with a bit of wit.

[Jimbo]

Also, I don't think Geordies are used to having the piss ripped out of them by large numbers of people. Everybody loves Newcastle after all - great city, loveable Geordie accents, the Bigg Market, blah blah.

But pisstake and ridicule are hard wired into the Birmingham psyche. We've had to put up with the entire country taking the piss out of our city and our accent for 200 years. We've even become self-deprecating as a result of it. It's water off a duck's back to us now. But we will take an opportunity to give a bit of pisstake back, wherever necessary, and do it with style.

[Gregorys Boy]

That Newcastle supporters are linking all Villa fans to the ones teasing them at Villa Park that day just shows how narrow minded Football fans can be.  I think part of it comes from how Newcastle fans tend to over value themselves or expect too much from a club which hasn't won a major trophey in over 50 years, and has been struggling in the middle to lower part of the table for a good decade now.  And the other way reason was simply that it was just a way for the home fans to get one over on opposing fans that day, rather than because it was Newcastle. 

Anyway, I don't toss Newcastle fans all into that catagory, and nor should they with Villa fans.  I really don't care enough, I just want Villa to at least go out on a bit of a high at home, and to avoid that record

[Dr Butler]

I`m fully aware of the recent friction but i still don`t understand any of this, i genuinely do not give a care about them any more than Rotherham or the bloody Billericay Red Lion.

I hate the Billericay Red Lion.

Splitters.

I prefer the Red Lion Billericay meself

UTV
The Doc

[aj2k77]

How do they know we have 15,000 unsold tickets - which we haven't anyway -?

If we get a decent crowd then mutant headed Gregg will probably claim it was boosted by thousands of Geordies in the home end.