Monday, Monday, so good to me….
Set off to the North east around lunchtime on Saturday, with the City scarf out of the window, until the rains came down. Missed the Leeming services which is now just off the A1 and poorly signposted, so it was the Little Chef just before Scotch corner for a bite to eat. Arrived at the Metro centre where we dropped the Blue Vic off around 5 ish and had a stroll round. Not one rag shirt spotted so well done you Geordies.
After the evening meal in the pub we were staying at in Gateshead we got a taxi into Newcastle to meet friends who were staying at a city centre hotel. The City coach was parked outside but the boys were staying elsewhere so couldn’t give them a pep talk.
Sunday morning broke nice and sunny. We parked up and strolled down to the fantastic Back page shop where I dropped a few ‘Us and Them’ books off and bought Joe Corrigan’s biography but they didn’t have the photo of the two captains shaking hands before the 1955 Cup Final which I’m after.
After a coffee and a chat with Mark who does The Mag fanzine (which swaps with KK, and I pass on to Geordie Brian in the local pub) we strolled up the hill to the ground, passing the new Bobby Robson memorial on the way. Obviously all the Geordies we spoke to wanted the rags to win the title but were hoping for both City AND united to lose today
Incidentally, after previously (years ago) chatting to Mark re Newcastle’s poor attendances when he advised they weren’t as poor as some City fans thought, I decided to include the factual WWYWYWshite bit in the It’s A Fix article. No offence meant.
Game was a bit nerve racking tho we were always in control but with a slow build up. 0-0 at half time so far so good cos I knew that Ya Ya would repeat his Cup semi and final feats of last season to score at the right time, and he did.Secong goal was icing on the cake.
Absolute euphoria at the end, fully deserved, and an enjoyable trip home stopping off at Leeming for tea. In the pub at night the bloke who sang ‘Teardrops will fall’ "for Mancini" a few weeks ago was sulking and the rag slag who squealed with delight at this, went into a tirade about us buying the title. Rags eh, dontcha just love em? I was perfectly well behaved of course, though in fairness, the landlord (and rag ) was very gracious – must value my presence!
Dave
Dave, and all Blues, surely this is our time. I'm 50 years old, and whilst I'm old enough to remember the good times, most of my life it's been bad times.
ReplyDeleteThis is our time, plastic rags, that I meet everywhere, are finally seeing the light. THE CITY IS OURS. Barton and QPR will be right up for it, but we've been the best team all season. Come on you Blues!!
Can't eat. Can't drink. Can't sleep. Can't concentrate. Can't remember the last time we beat QPR at home.
ReplyDeleteSomebody tell me I'm talking rubbish and there's nothing to worry about.
You're talking rubbish Neil, there's nothing to worry about
ReplyDeleteYou're talking perfectly sane sense and there's everything to worry about. I work with a Man U fan (hell, I employed him knowingly). Just after the Arsenal game, I told him that United would end up with a loss and a draw and then lose to us, we'd beat Newcastle but then fuck it up against QPR. That must have been a month ago and now I'm regretting it.
ReplyDeleteAnd if you think you're being irrational - I regret the decision that if I bought tickets for the QPR game it would all turn to shit because we'd got tickets. Not quite on the level of lucky pants, but getting there. Kept putting off the decision until it was too late. Now I can rationalise this by thinking that it's our not being there will enable us to win.
Nurse - the screens please!!
I know what you mean.
ReplyDeleteThere's three things that I've only ever experienced once and they were all games at home to QPR.
1/ QPR missed a penalty with virtually the last kick of the game and then equalized from the corner. (91-92?)
2/ Pollock own goal that would have been funny if the game hadn't been so critical.
3/ The day that Blackburn won the league at Anfield I watched the last ten minutes on a TV at the back of the Main Stand. I didn't know that QPR had scored a late winner until the following day.
Having said that I've never seen City win the league before.
I have to say that I understand eberyone's apprehensions. It's like this situation was made for City to cock up. But as I have been saying to my son all season, the only way I can see teams scoring against us is by a bad penalty decision (such as the penalty given against Richards vs Liverpool Lg Cup) a deflection (such as the goal off Lescott vs Liverpool away in the EPL) or some form of defensive mix up. But even if Rangers score one or even two of those type of goals, at home we have four goals in us and it would take a situation where we are battering their goal all game but just can't make a breakthrough. One of the above scenarios may happen, but not both. Then again Sunderland may even hold or beat United but of course everone is just assuming they'll win.
ReplyDeleteBought the title, hmm, united's starting eleven had one player (Scholes) that they didn't lay down a wedge of money to bring to OT.
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