who travels from Holyhead to Newcastle for every home game and just stands outside and listens to the crowd and the radio. She then goes home. She got into SJP last season for the first time ever because Yorkie gave her a pair of spares. Her worst day was New Year's Day two years ago cos it was snowing and she was almost dead by the end of the game. It certainly distorted her memory as she recalls us winning 3-0. She only lived in the Toon for 6 months when she was a kid and has stayed in love with it ever since. Amazing but true.

-- Anonymous, August 10, 2000

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And what about the away games ?? Bliddy part-timers ... :o)

Sounds too good to be true though doesn't it ? How sure can we be that an amount of poetic licence hasn't been employed, both in hers and the magazine's telling of it ? Nice story/urban myth though !

-- Anonymous, August 10, 2000

Mabbes she just cant bare to watch buthas to be there .. i can empathise with that , im like it at every bliddy match : - )

-- Anonymous, August 10, 2000

LOL, Sting: I know what you mean, too. Her name is Beryl Owen and she's 61. I think she may have been mentioned elsewhere...Ronnie Gill or somewhere. I think she may go in the Strawberry now and then...

-- Anonymous, August 10, 2000

I read about this last season and couldn't help feeling that it's like those people who push marbles from Land's End to John O'Groats with their nose and such like. Terrific effort, but there were tickets available for nearly every match so the whole, terrible sacrifice was a bit pointless really, wasn't it? Call me heartless but when I hear about somone wanting to stay in a tree for 5 years I get the urge to cut the tree down 4 years and 364 days into the effort.

-- Anonymous, August 10, 2000

Maybe she likes to be first in at the Strawbeery after a match? ;-)

-- Anonymous, August 10, 2000