Why you hate NUFC?

[Foot Long Hot Dog]

Also, this Messiah crap surely has to stop? Keegan's incredible feat of taking a doomed club back to the top flight and then the Champions League got him that nickname, because, in footballing terms, that was a sodding miracle.

We've not called anyone else that, it's just lazy journalists. Just like the line about "Geordies would rather lose 4-3 than win 1-0" Bollocks. Utter unmitigated bollocks. I suppose West Ham play the beautiful game, do they?

It wasn't just Keegan, the 'Geordie Nation' were clambouring for Shearer - a man with no experience & as it turned out - no fooking clue - as the 'New Messiah' & he would have been the had he kept you up. As it turned out, his different formation every week took you down quicker than that fat bird off GS draws.

 

[teppic]

Average attendance for Newcastle United (best fans in the world) in 1990 was 16,834.

I haven't even dared look at their attendances in the 80's.

 

[tsubaki]

It wasn't just Keegan, the 'Geordie Nation' were clambouring for Shearer - a man with no experience & as it turned out - no fooking clue - as the 'New Messiah' & he would have been the had he kept you up. As it turned out, his different formation every week took you down quicker than that fat bird off GS draws.

The sight of them chanting his name during the abject surrender at Villa Park when they went down was amazing, I am not even sure the RS would be that eye-gougingly mentalist.

 

[Coach]

See. There's as many negative myths as positive. Take 1984 Everton came 7th, and won the FA Cup, the average gate was 19000. A lot of it to do with unemployment. Tyneside wasn't immune to Thatcher neither. The same season 83/84 was Newcastle's only vaguely decent one in the 80s THIRD in DIVISION TWO. Yet their 30000 average gate was second best in the country behind Man Utd. When they came up they varied between 5th and 7th best supported with one of the worst sides in the clubs history. 1991 they had a boycott to get John Hall in, and it worked and they kicked on again. The stats are all out there for you to see.

Yeah they are and chicoazul is right. They spent 6 seasons in Div 2 in the late 70's early 80's and averaged 22,000. The previous 6 seasons they averaged 31,000 in Div 1.

 

[BoysInBlue]

 

[bluebottle]

People know he's just on a wind up? Fairly successfully as well sadly.

 

[Reidy's Bottle Of Grecian]

BLOODY FARMERS UNION, MOST ARE TORIES FFS.

 

[Coach]

Get on Kuato there

 

[nigelcoyb]

I like the barcodes they've had real sh1te to put up with over the years being perennial relegation fodder arsing round in the lower divisions with sub 10k gates.

Getting promoted under Keegan with mostly a gang of nobodies they blitzed the Prem with great football and the fans came back, I'd say they were the last unfancied club to show true ambition.

Yeh they're a bit of a circus but at least they don't send you to sleep.

 

[glynn_parry]

Similar to Leeds, think they are massive but never do anything perhaps beat one of the top four at home once a season or get relegated.

I would consider us a similar club to newcastle, villa and spurs but not bigger or smaller.

and Alan Pardew is a nob, he was sacked by West Ham, Charlton and Southampton, and Moyes has a fantastic record against him because he is usually getting relegated, then he come out with a load of dribble about the current Everton FC and then lost again!

Hopefully he is crying again tonight!

 

[njligernj]

"Could you please provide the appropriate evidence to support this outrageous claim ?" Sure, www.fptp.co.uk/qcsindex/introducing-the-quantifiable-club-size-index-qcsindex/#.UFcci3nhccr there you go.

The whole "big club" thing is tiresome -- any Prem team is a "big club" if you're a fan of a fourth division team and the "big club" comes calling. There is really no fundamental difference between Barcelona and Stoke if you're in the conference -- the player is gone if they want them. It's all relative. You could argue there is big ... then there is massive ... maybe even a super massive. It's pretty silly (and dismissive of the rest of the football clubs out there) to say teams like Newcastle and Everton aren't big clubs. So it's a pointless discussion (besides obviously Everton is bigger ).

Funny thing about the link you provided there: In the end it concludes Man City and Newcastle are the same exact size. That feels wrong. Yet using the very criteria we would use to suggest we are bigger than Newcastle (league titles won ... to a lesser degree some Cups) would also put Newcastle and City on pretty much the same exact level (Newcastle slightly ahead on history actually). It just doesn't feel right to me for obvious reasons. Yet there are those that would argue we're a bigger club than City based on league titles won etc. and it probably seems as silly to fans of other teams when we say that as I think it is when you say that about Newcastle. It's all well and good to say "football didn't start with Sky" ... which is true obviously ... but do you truly believe Villa are a bigger club than City? This discussion makes me sad.

Anyway, to answer your initial question I was always a bit anti-Newcastle. Then I met a Newcastle fan who was decent and now I'm not so much. I could see people going the other way ("I know this one guy and he's the worst so they're all like that"). I have enough sports hate for the RS and City ... there is really none left for a club like Newcastle. I know that seems like a passive aggressive insult but it's just the truth.

 

[scratchnsurf]

You lot bought Duncan Ferguson off us.



Need I say more?

 

[Number_25]

You lot bought Duncan Ferguson off us.



Need I say more?

Wow.

Nearly forgot.

BLOODY BLIMMING BASTERDING BASTERDS!

 

[Fensta]

hmm i don't hate Newcastle, always kinda liked watching em play...

 

[Peter g]

Pardew comes across a bit of a tit And the media w@nkfest over the toon can get a bit tedious but overall I'd say the toon are a great club with a great history ! They love their football like us and the locals are brilliant people although it pisses me off how there is so many of them in emmerdale ffs