"Alan Shearer finally grabbed his 200th league goal as Newcastle United temporarily hit the top of the Premiership table at Coventry City."

Temporarily!!! Tossers. We all know where not going to stay there forever but this is ridiculous!

-- Anonymous, September 07, 2000

Answers

Sure does have a bit of a negative ring to it, doesn`t it. They could at least let us revel in it a bit longer! Realism, pah! Who needs it!(;o)

-- Anonymous, September 07, 2000

What a bunch of @*nt$, who's the f'ing editor?

:-((

-- Anonymous, September 07, 2000

Eh??..Bleedin' hell...the famous Geordie faith rears it's ugly head again!!..Come on lads...and birds.....of course it's temp. Even us obnoxious glory hunting bandwaggon plastic out-of-town Man Yew fans knew our stint at the top was only temp.

Get a grip or you'll be crying in yer beer every week.

-- Anonymous, September 07, 2000

Come off it LR, if man u fans got excited every time they were top they'd need plastic pants. For us it only happens during olympic years so you've got to expect us to go over board!!

-- Anonymous, September 07, 2000

Even us obnoxious glory hunting bandwaggon plastic out-of-town Man Yew fans knew our stint at the top was only temp

Is your time at the top over then LR? You really are on a downer about your lot. 8-)

-- Anonymous, September 07, 2000

Read again LR. I said "We all know where not going to stay there forever".

I was commenting on the unnecessary negatvity in the headline. Can't remember seeing the headline "Man Utd temporarily hold European Cup"

-- Anonymous, September 07, 2000

Geordie.....funny you should mention the European Cup...but all last season while some of us were attempting to get the chant "We are the Champions....Champions of Europe" going, we were all commenting on how we should be raising the roof on this one...cos we can only sing it for a season.

Ya see.....I'm murdering the myth aren't I? :-)

-- Anonymous, September 07, 2000

They really are the poor relations of all NUFC web sites; they have adjusted the capacity to a staggering 51,000 now, won't NUFC get into bother for cramming extra people in on Saturday.

-- Anonymous, September 07, 2000

Was that "Temporarily at the top", remark from one of the tabloids?

-- Anonymous, September 07, 2000

Doesn't matter if we'll stay there or not, it's just bad writing. If it was mathematically impossible for us to stay at the top, you could say 'temporarily', otherwise why say it at all?

-- Anonymous, September 07, 2000

No rik, I wouldn't have been bothered about that. This was from NUFC.CO.UK ... OUR site!

-- Anonymous, September 07, 2000

Dan, it's always nice to see a fellow grammar pedant online :-)

Wear a dieing breede.

-- Anonymous, September 07, 2000