How we fell in love with NUFC

I'm not one of them.

 

Born to it,brought up on Darby St just up the lane from SJP not far from Dickmans pie shop,so Dickmans pies and the Toon I couldn't and wouldn't be anything else than Black and White,that and I was there at the Cenral Stn when the 1955 cup winning team came back from Landan

 

Jesus Christ you must be old

 

Trev's grandson.

 

You're only as old as the women feel

 

So does that mean that Roy! doesn't exist at all?

 

Dickman's pie shop? Seriously?

 

A university love affair. First game soon after starting a 1 year course there in October 1980 when they were in Division 2. First game was a 1-0 win against Sheffield Wednesday. Apparently it was their worst scoring season ever "In their 42 league games Newcastle managed a pathetic 30 goals; an average of 0.71 goals a game, the worst average ever recorded by the team". If you can fall in love with a team during a scoring run like that its easy to see why I am not fazed by any short scoring droughts.

To be fair the previous teams I had used to go and watch were Preston North End, Lancaster City and York City so the bar wasn't set very high.

 

Bobby Shinton top scorer with 7

 

Yep. Think Chris Waddle was the only bit of joy in that season and he couldn't cross a ball to save his life when he first started. The most dangerous thing about standing in the Gallowgate end that year was being hit by one of his pinpoint centres.

 

Eddie Howe's fault. Useless.

 

My first game was Newcastle 2 West Brom 1 in April 1990. ****ty season to get on board, we lost 4-1 to Middlesbrough on the last day and missed out on automatic promotion and then Sunderland knocked us out of the play offs. Swindown beat Sunderland in the play offs final but were then banned from promotion cos of some dodgy **** they'd done and Sunderland went up.

 

My first game was Middlesbrough away in 1996..the coca cola cup where we lost 3-1..but when i went to that i didn't support anyone, i just liked football (i was 6), and my dad had tickets so we went (he's a geordie and NUFC fan but he didn't force it on me).

Anyway obviously Newcastle lost and i started crying about it, so that's when i knew i was a toon fan.

 

All my Dad's side of family are from the area (Hebburn).

 

Yes,was one of most famous pie shops in the world ( well nearly ) all pie's and bread and pastry's were cooked on the permises,if you haven't had Dickmans gravy down the front of your ganzie after biting into one of their pie's then you've never lived

 

CC has never had one of these pies