...but to have small clubs like Ipswich and Charlton (both newly promoted), Southampton and Villa, not to mention those half-breds from mackem land, finish above us is (IMHO) FAR from satisfactory!?

-- Anonymous, May 19, 2001

Answers

Thanks a million, Gary Speed:

"Newcastle defeated Aston Villa 3-0 at St James Park thanks to Stephen Glass, Carl Cort and a Mark Delaney own goal.

Newcastle's Gary Speed and Villa's Ian Taylor were both sent off late on for violent conduct, putting Newcastle's qualification for the draw for two UEFA Cup places through the Fair Play League in jeopardy.

Villa qualified for the Intertoto Cup despite being beaten."

Sporting Life.

:-(

-- Anonymous, May 19, 2001

Only "in jeopardy" if 2 more of us had followed him for an eary bath.

-- Anonymous, May 20, 2001

Bud - Sporting Life join the sh*tstirrers @ Teamtwaddle. We needed 3 sent off and a trash load of bookings to avoid the fair play nomination.

5.5 to 1 against a Euro place - better than mackems

-- Anonymous, May 20, 2001

half-breds?? should that be half-BREED? well what do you expect when you are ran by a tax exile,your manager is a pissy pensioner,you have a large debt,your influential players are getting too old, your reserves have nowt and most of all your failure to live in the real world and relise that your day has long gone. get real losers! your shit and next season you will get whats coming to you.RELEGATION.

-- Anonymous, May 20, 2001

no I think it was a different typo. He meant to say "half breads". Like not quite a full sandwich, or the like.

-- Anonymous, May 20, 2001

You've lost me there Super?:

breed v. & n. — v. (past and past part. bred)!!! 1tr. & intr. bear, generate (offspring). 2tr. & intr. propagate or cause to propagate; raise (livestock). 3tr. a yield, produce; result in (war breeds famine). b spread (discontent bred by rumour). 4intr. arise; spread (disease breeds in the Tropics). 5tr. bring up; train (bred to the law; Hollywood breeds stars). 6tr. Physics create (fissile material) by nuclear reaction. — n. 1a stock of animals or plants within a species, having a similar appearance, and usu. developed by deliberate selection. 2a race; a lineage. 3a sort, a kind. bred and born = born and bred. bred in the bone hereditary. breeder reactor a nuclear reactor that can create more fissile material than it consumes. breed in mate with or marry near relations. breeder n. Etymology OE breŽdan: rel. to brood

-- Anonymous, May 20, 2001

Too many long words there for a Mackem.

-- Anonymous, May 20, 2001

.... or for me....

As for finishing 11th and a massive 6 points behind our friends from Sunderland. It isn't acceptable and only our board can sort it out by giving the manager the money he needs for those 3 or 4 key players that we need.

-- Anonymous, May 21, 2001