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  1. SSJNUFC

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    http://football365.co.uk/story/0,17033,8746_6938720,00.html

    Newcastle United fans were officially measured by the Jarrow Institute of Social Science as having shed the most tears in one season, at an average of one tablespoon's worth of salty sorrow per fan during the relegation season of 2008-09.

    The club was given the nickname, the Magpies by Tom Wilkinson, who was the Chairman of London Chamber Of Commerce in 1897. This was because the incidence of theft and pick-pocketing rose markedly whenever Newcastle United fans came to town to support their side.

    "They're nothing but thieving Magpies," Wilkinson proclaimed and the name stuck.

    When the club won the Texaco cup for the second time in the mid 1970s, fans notoriously celebrated winning by drinking petrol straight from a Texaco garage fuel pump on Barrack Road. "It's better than Ace Lager," said one excited fan to a local TV reporter.

    They are the current holders of The Teresa Herrera Trophy, a competition held every year in Portugal, and they also are the Alan Franklin tournament champions at both under-17 and under-19 level.

    Their last FA Cup win was in 1957. They hold the unenviable record of the worst ever home defeat in a top flight game after a 9-1 thrashing by Sunderland but also hold the record for the biggest top flight win of 12-0 against Barrow FC in 1909.

    When they won the Fairs Cup in 1968 they beat Honved from Hungary by an aggregate score of 6-1.

    The father of one of the Americans who invented the bar code, Bernard Silver, was actually from Byker.
    The lowest attendance ever to watch a game at St James Park is 4,604. This happened in 1958 after the sale of popular defender Frank Gibson to Leeds United. By way of protest, most fans refused to attend the next home game against the Yorkshire club. Gibson went on to run the famous Redcar Jazz Club.

    63% of locals voted in an Evening Chronicle poll to have Alan Shearer's trademark arm aloft goal celebration incorporated into a new version of the city's coat of arms. Shearer is technically the worst manager that the Toon have ever had, His win ratio is just 12.5%.

    The club has never played in the third tier of the football league but has been relegated from the top flight more times than any other club.

    In the 1970s midfielder Irving Nattrass was an unofficial member of Lindisfarne. A keen mandolin player, he played on but due to contractual issues was never credited on albums such as Roll on Ruby and Dingley Dell.

    After Kevin Keegan became manager in 1992 it was later noted by the registrar of births, marriages and deaths at the Civic Centre that 1.2% of all boys born that year in Newcastle were given the first name of Keegan.




    the petrol drinking bit is quite unbelivable, wouldnt happen these days tho with the price of petrol :p
     
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  2. Arfa's Left Foot

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    Petrol bit is weird, and we won the FA Cup in '55 not '57.
     
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  3. Tiggyrimana

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    I thought our biggest win was 13-1 :S
     
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  4. Cal.

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    We won the 1969 Fairs Cup final 6-2, against Újpesti Dózsa.
     
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  5. Spiderman-Mask

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    That was in a Cup game I think
     
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  6. Agent Bruce

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    '55 Wor Jackies Final.

    Seen it loads of times on the coach trips to the away games. Never get tired of seeing it though.
     
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    it's a really really bad attempt at wumming
     
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  8. Sidthemackem

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    Thieving Magpies? Newcastle bin dippers <laugh>

    Fascinating stuff (even if it is a wum) <ok>
     
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  9. Agent Bruce

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    Now now Sid, we expect better than that off you.
     
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  10. SSJNUFC

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    on my behalf? if thats what ya mean then your wrong! just seen it on football365 n thought ad post it, a dont post on here loads but when a have av never wum'ed
     
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  11. Sidthemackem

    Sidthemackem Newcastle United 0-1 Cambridge United
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    Come on AB. It's a good gag, even if it's not all true. An Institute measuring salty sorrow in tablespoons of tears? It's sort of artistic, even if it is a piss-take...
     
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  12. Agent Bruce

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    Can see where some might find it funny.
     
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    Sidthemackem Newcastle United 0-1 Cambridge United
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    Heh heh. I understand the bit about the 9-1 thrashing is accurate....:)
     
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  14. Agent Bruce

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    salty sorrow in tablespoons of tears. <cry>
     
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  15. Sidthemackem

    Sidthemackem Newcastle United 0-1 Cambridge United
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    9-1 = more like <wah>

    5-1 = <cry>
     
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  17. Cal.

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    Would have made a lot more sense if the OP had included this bit:

     
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  18. Rafa's Championship Party

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    It was 13-0 and was in the old second division in 1946 (I think). I know my gran only ever went to one game of football in her life and it was that game.
     
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  19. Agent Bruce

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    Well at least you've shed a tear or two too.

    Try saying that fast.
     
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    What a pity you couldn't take her to all our games.
     
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