Why...

...did you start supporting Newcastle?

Personally, I have to give thanks to Laurent Robert. The 5-yr-old me saw my name on the team sheet and was sold.

What about you???

 

My Dad is a Bournemouth fan and when we returned to the UK from the US he took me to see a game.

It was Bournemouth vs Newcastle and although Bournemouth won; as we walked out of the ground my Dad asked if I was going to support the Cherries.

I told him that I didn't like the style of play as it was against everything he used to coach our youth football teams. Keep it on the floor, pass and move, find space etc.

Bournemouth just hoofed it to the big guy up front.

I think that was the first time I found myself out of my fathers will.

 

Runs in the family,although my generation will be the last.
Living darn sarf both my lads follow that lot from Stamford Bridge

 

Supported Newcastle all my life like my dad, but i only started taking it properly seriously in the 08/09 season.

Perfect timing really. I'd rather i'd seen the destruction and revival of my club then spending a few years building myself up to be knocked down.

 

Although I'm not from Newcastle and have never lived there, my Mum's side of the family are all from the North East. I've supported NUFC for as long as I remember

 

The football team I played for at the time in S'Land (lived around Doxford Park in S'land as a child as it was easier for my dad to commute as he was working in Teesside at ICI when I was little and a19 > a1 through Durham) called Moorside boys had a coach who used to play for Newcastle reserves (injury ended his career before it started) and then a diehard Mackem - half the team ended up supporting S'land, the other N'castle.
After the team split up and we moved back to Co. Durham I saw my old friends again and hardly any of them had stuck with the same team, loads of them had changed to glory supporters!

This coupled with my dad's best friend from childhood being a Geordie meant I'd had the team established in my heart before I knew it, they'd both take me to toon games and then my dad would drag us both to Mackem games (although I'd always secretly wear my toon top underneath a hoody or trackie top - it was the 90s)!

 

The next door neighbour took me to see Newcastle play Swansea in 1959 and I've been hooked ever since.

 

This ^^^

Born in Newcastle, moved to a village outside Durham when I was very young and by the time I went to primary school you basically had to make a desicion whether to support the Mighty Toon or go to the dark side. I saw the light. Went to SJP religiously as a kid. Later moved to London when still a young lad and although I got a lot of abuse from Gooners and Spuds I stuck to my beliefs, how did my kids repay me for sticking to my guns all those years ago? ****ing Gooners, the pair of them, the Missus is a Spud. Twats the lot of them!

 

Mum side of family Mackems, Dads side Newcastle fans. Decided when 5under1and were in the old 2nd divison and thought id support the Toon due to the better fans, better play and pushing from Dads family

Yet still after so many years people still dont take you seriously

 

Met my wife down in Nottingham where I lived at the time, Wife is a Geordie and was working for British Gas at the time and was working with a mate also a Geordie.
British Gas paided for them to rent out house which I moved into and her mate was a die hard NUFC fan, personally I hated football at the time but started going to the pub with him to watch the match. This was 94-95 (The Keegan Era) from then on I started supporting the toon.
Got married in 96 and we moved back up to Newcastle, where I work on the Cobalt business park and can see SJP from my office window and go to as many matches as I can afford.

Never miss a match, even when abroad I find away to get updates and score.

OT - where abouts in the US did you live?

 

like my signature says...

born in the toon you support the toon,


i remember my dad saying that to me when i was about 10., my granda said it to him and his dad said it to him and so on......little family saying we have.

 

I lived in Arkansas, New Jersey, Texas, Florida and California.

 

Christ you've been about a bit, I've got family in Arkansas and California (going over in October) and I used to Live about 30 miles outside of Philedphia. I Also lived in Nottingham!!! Have you been following me around????

 

I converted wor lass in a similar manner, she's from Sheffield and when we started going out she didn't have an interest in football. I'd always watch the matches with a Geordie contingent of mates I have down here and often she'd come along to watch.
Then the season before this one (after relegation) I'd finally gotten a decent car (the clio RIP) and realised a lot of games were not too far from Leeds (cheap petrol costs for a student) and tickets were cheap. Went to a few and then the one at Brammal lane (Sheffield United) my mate had to drop out so I took wor lass since I figured I could get brownie points for taking her to see her parents for a cuppa (and secretly have a place to park my car) and from that point she was hooked!

 

Born in Newcastle and always lived in Newcastle.

 

You look lovely today SirBR.

Is that a new aftershave I smelt in the lift?

My Dad used to travel constantly for the business he was the director of so we got dragged along as well.

Almost 20 schools before I was 13...

Seems I've got the itchy feet syndrome as well though

 

Whereabouts in Cali? I got family who live in LA, they go to an English pub near Studio City (Fox & Hounds I think) had some amazing nights/days in there. Watched an England game there one day with Manic Street Preachers, the kid who used to be in Eastenders then did 300 piss take film & Ridley Scott all sitting in the bar watching the game.

 

Used to live in Long Beach but we were only there for about 10 months.

 

Why thank you, glad you noticed. It's the latest Badger for Men

Can't have been to good moving around that much.

We moved back in 86, and I just moved around of my own accord (or where my wife told me to )

Long Beach christ that is basically where I'm going in October, wifes cousin lives in Lakewood.

 

Don't know much about Long Beach, ooh great aquarium. And the Queen Mary

Would love to live in Cali but I'd prefer a bit further north, San Fran is nice and very handy for Napa & Sonoma valleys. Love a bit of wine and sunshine me.