Great fashion, culture, art, food, architecture, warm weather, hot classy women, two great football teams To swap it all for a cold grey post industrial landscape where men with no teeth suck gravy off their chips, the women look like wrestlers and nobody can understand what the **** any of them are saying
I saw some documentary on Milan some weeks back, to be fair it didn't receive the best of accolades. It's ok if you want designer stuff, or you want to see where the picture of the last supper is kept, albeit even that has been poorly kept and sustained a lot of damage. I just hope going to Newcastle the lad remembers to take his big coat.
Out of interest have you ever actually been to Newcastle? Grey Street was described by architectural historian Pevsner as the most beautiful street in Britain and it regularly gets voted so by people nationally too. Cities in this country aren't as picturesque as those in Italy without doubt but you can't lay all that at the door of Newcastle buddy.
Well yes, but it looks nicer than any city in England. I don't think players come to play in England because of the culture. London is OK to visit but there's probably 30 other cities in Europe I'd prefer to live.
That's a bold claim. I'd say places like Bath, Oxford, York are much nicer than Newcastle And yeah players come to England for the Premier league, although living in London is always going to be a big pull for a lot of foreign players.
Oh I meant Milan looks much nicer than any city in England. If I was talking about Newcastle I'd have said "any other" city, we haven't left yet Yeah I prefer York, Durham and Chester just off the top of my head but even then it really depends on where you live. My brother lives in Cambridge and it's nice to look at but having spent time there I wouldn't want to live there myself. Alnwick is gorgeous and was voted "best place to live in the UK" a few times but it's such a subjective thing. I turned down a job in London in my 20s and told the company they couldn't pay me enough money to live there (almost certainly a mistake in hindsight) which is obviously a lie, they just didn't offer enough. Can't say it's ever appealed though, 11 million people can't be wrong (thinks of Boris Johnson as Mayor), again.
Pretty much everyone who has been to Newcastle say they liked it. The city centre is great and Grey street is the nicest street in England. Most people who say they don't like Newcastle have never been.
The thing you have to remember is, the City you guys are thinking of is nothing like the experience these players will have. You think these players will be living in a 3 bed semi on a council estate, popping down to Tesco Express to grab their shopping and getting accosted by a tramps begging for change to buy their next bottle of Diamond White? Wherever these players live, they will be in a gated community, in a £2.4m mansion with a swimming pool, having their every need taken care of.
I know i was just on about the city centre. Most of our players live in Ponteland which is north Newcastle, it's the posh part.
