Newcastle United FC 1-0 Watford FC - 03/11/2018

Probably one of my favourite away trips.

Always good to team it with an overnight stay afterwards. They are a bit less eventful in my older years but Newcastle is the scene of one night out where I was so drunk that I tipped a stripper with a £1 coin and told her ‘not to share it...that’s all for you.’ And also another night where I was innebriated to the point that I told my mates that I thought the bar we were in was dull so I was going to check out the club next door. I proceeded to get up, walk out the entrance and proceed next door, all in view of my mates looking out the window...however, in my p1ssed up state, mistook the open fire exit of the bar for the entrance of the club - I wandered through said fire exit, stood about 5 yards away from said friends and glanced about a bit. Then I left believing I’d seen the club and made the return trip in full view of my pals once more.

‘Next door is **** guys, we are much better off in here....’

I’m bringing my wife this time. Just to be safe.

1-3 (Hughes, Pereyra, Doucoure)

 

Will Clive be taking food parcels - well, meat parcels, to the benighted working classes up north?

 

I suspect so. This would be a prime location for the uprising of the proletariat.

 

Shamelessly stolen from this forum and adapted to fit Newcastle. I wouldn’t be surprised if it was one of our own forum members trolling both sides.

Newcastle 1 Watford 2

 

Well, the Jarrow March didn't change much

 

Their forum is hysterical and as pessimistic as ours. All credit to them.

I've got a soft spot for Newcastle fans ever since they sold out the away end on a cold, wet, miserable midweek cup night. Respect.

I still hope we win. Obviously. However, they are due a (surprise) win against somebody ………..

 

"Despite the initial sense of failure among the marchers, in subsequent years, the Jarrow March became recognised by historians as a defining event of the 1930s. It helped to foster the change in attitudes which prepared the way to social reform measures after the Second World War, which their proponents thought would improve working conditions. The town holds numerous memorials to the march. Re-enactments celebrated the 50th and 75th anniversaries, in both cases invoking the "spirit of Jarrow" in their campaigns against unemployment. In contrast to the Labour Party's coldness in 1936, the post-war party leadership adopted the march as a metaphor for governmental callousness and working-class fortitude."
Shows they're a revolutionary bunch who aren't prepared to accept their designated position in the social strata. A tinderbox just waiting for Clive to climb up on his soapbox.

 

In the immediate aftermath - no! But its repercussions, especially its effects in formation of Beveridge's report and the post-war settlement ("Welfare State") must have been massive (wiki is surprisingly good on this).

 

It was a bit. Apologies

 

Nice try at fishing.

 

Oh please, can we? Can we?

I loved how we made the Liverpool Echo go into meltdown.

 

I thought it was rather amusing

 

Ahh you get used to the cold up here, it ain't too bad. I've surprisingly started to match the locals with their number of layers, so the same can be done for you guys. As for the Parmo, it's a beautiful delicacy that is a sure-fire way to increase your risk of cardiac events by 25%, but you definitely would be hard-pushed to find that in the Toon. As for Aberdeen, that is too far up north. Lord Almighty I wouldn't even venture up there!

 

Found myself uncontrollably laughing at that.

 

The definition of homosexuality in Newcastle is “owns a coat”

 

Indeed along with the Battle of Cable Street (in which my Mum fought!!!) which defined working class attitudes to Fascism ( the so called upper classes and aristocracy remained attracted to that philosophy)

 

Owning a coat is when you’re in the closet. Wearing one is when you come out.

 

Was friends with a Geordie at university. We met up in the halls of residence for the first big Friday night out and he was wearing a YSL shirt, smart black shoes and black Adidas three stripe tracksuit bottoms. As a veteran of the militant provincial dress codes of Kudos and Batchwood back home, I told him I didn't think he'd be allowed in anywhere. He assured me this kind of get up was de rigeur on the "Toon" and he'd have no problem.

Sure enough, he was turned away from everywhere - until he had the bright idea of turning his tracksuit bottoms inside out so the white stripes weren't visible. Some bouncers eventually took pity on him and let him in, despite the inside out label being very visible on his stealth trousers.

Another time he went for a **** on a nightclub toilet and found there was no paper. Instead of foregoing a pair of socks or his pants as emergency bog roll, he ripped out the middle eight pages of his passport that he'd brought along for ID.

Strange creature was our "Geordie". I've always presumed the rest of them are just like him.

 

I remember some time in the seventies walking down Vicarage Road with a couple of Newcastle fans behind me, chattting. Apart from the odd "canny" and "aye" I couldn't understand a f******g word.

 

I thought we were a pessimistic lot, we seem positively upbeat

 

Complacent performance from Watford oop north with Kabasele being sent off again. Peter Kennedy with a brace against his old club. Tough day for the Hornets.

Also for those going; don't forget your Geordie phrase books.

 

howay man

I’m not sure we are back into full swing yet, could see another blip

However am hoping for a right Bobby dazzler 0-5 , Bobby P x2 , Gerry D, Etti C, Andy G

 

Give you mum a stern salute from me, Ron.

 

From what I recall, it was one among many things which added up in retrospect to a recognition that the aftermath of WW2 had to be better for ordinary people than that of WW1. But what I was alluding to was that it was one of the precursors to reform rather than revolution, and would have fallen well short of the Communist dream that Clive might have wanted.

Here we go again - and again it's my fault for starting it

 

"Please make it stop" is my favourite post in there so far, only on first page though.

Ok, I got to the end and I feel some of them need some form of counselling.

 

Which side was she on?

 

A passport has small pages.

Artisanal wiping required.

 

After WW1: Spanish Flu.
After WW2: Welfare State.

Quiz q for our resident historians.

To what extent was Attlee’s Welfare State merely a rebranding of what was already in place?

Eyes down, no conferring.

 

I’d take a point.

First 20 mins crucial, you would think.

They should come at us at a 100 miles an hour. Survive that, quieten the crowd, get Ashley on the big screen & they are there for the taking.

Line up?

We always beat them when Troy starts.

 

It’s a while since we were treated to Jossy’s photographic work.

Been absent for same time as Holebas?

You can tell they’re good because you see all the ribbons of sweat garlanding the players.

 

Apparently Newcastle are going to make a late Halloween party of it: They're coming in matching make-believe fancy dress, dressed as footballers. (Except Rafa: He's pretending to be a waiter).

 

Many of the Welfare State ideas were developed during WW2, and a few before that - Liberals like William Beveridge were highly influential. But only the Attlee government would have pushed through implementation so thoroughly.

Incidentally, I used to work with Attlee's son-in-law. We didn't get on too well as I thought he was a hidebound traditionalist and he didn't think I would fit into his gentlemen's club (he was right about that).

 

There must have been some form of goods delivery entrance which you could have used.

 

Not everyone who goes to private clubs and public schools are homosexual ....just most of them .