along with my dr who dvd my mate sent me match of the day last week...

mainly for the NE derby-but i enjoyed the midlands derby

that strong lad is canny for sure

ronaldo seems to be on fire this season

im going to bite the bullet and bedgrudingly get sky sports next season

jonylawson said:

don't you get sbs over there?

You missed Newcastle being totally shit for 90% of the year

mdiver said:

actually it was only 78.2%

everyone loves a geordie

jonylawson said:

I loved you guys right up until you started playing well.....against us at the Lane

mdiver said:

The third goal was greeted by what the BBC commentator called: "absolute delirium and pandemonium in the corner of the ground that houses the Newcastle supporters".

Here's the view of a prince amongst paper hats, one Dave Mason writing in The Observer:

Don't we have sweet days at the Lane now? And after Keegan's recent remarks about southerners, it would be even sweeter to wipe the floor with the Geordie nation today.

Given the relative trophy count, sounds more like subordi-nation to me. But we mustn't be so charitable towards our bare beer-bellied friends - the six points we gave them last season kept them up and we've already donated three this time.

If the game's dull we can always count the empty seats at their end - these 'committed fans' never take the full allocation, you see.

Counting empty seats Dave? there were around 30K by the time Spurs kicked off after Oba's goal.

While that's little different to what happened on Tyneside this season when we've had hidings, at least our seats started off occupied - WHL holds over 36,000 yet wasn't a sellout for home fans despite the game coming barely a month after their Wembley trophy success. Loyal eh?

Thanks for another three points Dave - and it wasn't dull.

Jermaine Jenas was absent and fellow former Magpie Jonathan Woodgate played, although JJ was name-checked by the away fans more frequently, with references to the scoreline, goldfish bowls and other alleged activities best not mentioned....