Anyone see Sky's review of the 96-97 season, when we finished 2nd after a 10 match unbeaten streak.

Great programme for a few of reasons.

A) Seeing Tino creating and scoring left, right and centre, inspirational!

B) In the relegation dogfight for most of the season were mackems and smoggies, inspirational.

C) That result against Leicester at St James'. Thunderous Shearer free kick started the comback. Magical Tino. I still remember gloating at some Leicester fans in the pub that day.

Worst thing was that 4-3 against Liverpool, defeat after mmore Tino magic.

-- Anonymous, August 16, 2000

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ahh....the Leicester game.

that was the day i was kicked out of SJP for overcelebrating. Well, I was in the Leicester end and Big Al had just scored his first hat-trick. Magic feeling. Not so magic was being 3-1 down with 13 minutes to go....

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-- Anonymous, August 16, 2000

Shearer reckons he ripped his groin hitting that free-kick - it was certainly ferocious.

-- Anonymous, August 16, 2000

V's Everton Dunc went over in the box - penalty then Speed hits a Dunc header for them to win 2-0.

-- Anonymous, August 17, 2000

That infamous 'foul' on Dunc by Stevie Watson. Ferguson grabs handful of Watto's collar, drags him into box, throws him to floor and then 'trips' over him. One of the most disgraceful refereeing decisions in history :-)

-- Anonymous, August 17, 2000

Yeah - he's a dirty, cheating b@st@rd that Ferguson blerk!!

How's Nic doing Softie?

-- Anonymous, August 17, 2000

Thanks for asking clarky. Nic is plain terrified at the moment. There is lots of family history of severe problems in childbirth and she is certain she's going to end up with the baby stuck after hours of labour, get sent for an emergency caesarian and still get paralysed by the epidural. As a trained special care nurse who looks after premature babies for a living, with a 40% fatality rate, she doesn't have to think very hard to find things to panic about. This means that she wakes up every couple of hours at night and needs reassuring. All the worrying she does and the stuff we get shown at ante-natal classes plus my own active imagination means that I'm now plagued with nightmares of aliens burrowing out of Nic's belly in full, technicolour horror so I'm not best able to reassure her whilst I am half asleep and shielding myself from the gnashing terror about to burst out of her.

Other than that, it's a breeze and we have a happy, cheerful disposition about our impending miracle :-)

-- Anonymous, August 18, 2000