Benwell Lad

Very common in the clubs too. Half of Fed best and half of ordinary.

Can understand why people in the east of Germany hanker for the old days of the DDR, and other misplaced sentimentality, but why anyone would want to drink that mass produced piss that S&N and the other monopoly breweries produced back then is beyond me

In these current days of there never having been a better time to be a beer drinker, choice, variety and quality, much of it from breweries on our doorsteps, and the town and north east in general having so many brilliant pubs, a reminder of how bad it was for the generation who's choice was the abysmal Ex, Scotch or something called lager. Beer drinkers of today, never take for granted or fail to appreciate how fortunate you are.

Just imagine what's on offer from a team who qualified for Europe with a negative goal difference and bottom three xg stat

Osula's goal vs Man U deserves it's landslide, it was an amazing effort and to seal an unlikely last minute win win with ten men gave it all the drama and emotion too. Some absolutely brilliant goals amongst the others too mind.

See Fickle Teddy Mackem has been back on

As soon as he arrived, even though his debut was a disappointing result, it was so obvious that Trippier had the type of quality and presence we hadn't seen in a while and along with Bruno became the main reason we escaped almost certain relegation. Also provided the assist for my favourite Newcastle goal of all time. Legend.

Possibly the shittest pre season friendly ever for a whole bunch of reasons.

Interesting because I've heard he was well liked and down to earth. Just shows how it can be

Supporting Gateshead must be about as depressing as it gets as a football fan. Got to admire those who follow them through thin and thin.

Losing our most effective attacking player in the opposition half for a second year running carries the obvious big risks. I'm sure someone knows what they're doing but it wasn't addressed properly last time, mainly due to the protracted nature of things and the constraints on time it led to, of course. We absolutely have to get it right this time, our summer recruitment has to be bang on.

You really couldn't go a full season without a red card or conceding a penalty in today's PL even if you were the most flowing, perfect, total football team ever. Doing it with Arsenal's grappling, aggressive style and a manager who plays as a winger most games is, well, nigh on impossible. I'd struggle to give a fuck about who wins the league if it's not Newcastle or some other underdog, but I get the feeling their victory is pretty universally despised.

Yeah probably but that's quite different to the statement I was replying to, which was " it's completely ruined the experience for match going fans and even those watching on the telly". Personally I'd rather go to a game with a 3pm Saturday kick off and VAR than a Wednesday 20.15 kick off without VAR if we're talking about making the football experience worse

Probably because the latter have the advantage of multiple replays and angles, versus a real time split second decision.and so should always get it right even if they sometimes fail to do so even with that advantage.

Fair enough, but at the games I've been at goals are still celebrated properly even if VAR is in the back of our minds. If as you say " it's completely ruined the experience for match going fans and even those watching on the telly" I still don't know anyone who's stopped going or watching because VAR is in operation.