Woooooo hoooooooo. Tonight me dad's coming home from London for a week so we are going out for dinner. Tomorrow I'm going to London for a couple of days. Sunday, seeing me lovely lads playing ;) You lot?

-- Anonymous, August 17, 2001

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Spanish mean and then see Peter Reid's new film tonight, Wait for our young un to turn up tomorrow before a serious piss up in town, go to the match on sunday....and pray that I can somehow get our young un a ticket for the match on sunday(but it's looking impossible!)...

-- Anonymous, August 17, 2001

What time is the match on Sunday?

-- Anonymous, August 17, 2001

Chillin' in the Cheviots. Well, apart from the time I'll be PPVing on Sunday. Sudden, KO is 14:00 BST so I guess 15:00 your time. Hmm - just realised - I'll have to get 2 tellies on the go so I can watch the GP as well.

-- Anonymous, August 17, 2001

Not a lot planned apart from watching the lads on PPV on Sunday. Probably start packing for my holiday to Halkidiki next week

-- Anonymous, August 17, 2001

Becoming some poor childs Godfather on Saturday, hawking the wedding photo's around to the folks on the Sunday (providing me Dad's got PPV).

-- Anonymous, August 17, 2001

BBQ sat pm

Overnight ferry to St. Malo returning on the day ferry on Sunday.... yuk!

-- Anonymous, August 17, 2001

Becoming some poor childs Godfather

Making the parents an offer they can't refuse? "Hey, wanna see some wedding photos?"

-- Anonymous, August 17, 2001

Thx Screacher. The local sports bar is showing the match so I guess I'll go there to watch it. Looks like a long Sunday full of sports. First F1, then THE game followed by Man U vs Fulham. Lots of beer, lots of sports, lots of FUN!

-- Anonymous, August 17, 2001

Gav, I know - I've being trying to procure a spare for a mate, too. Have you tried the Font of all Tickets, Mungo? I think Screach has his number..

-- Anonymous, August 17, 2001

It'll cost yiz!

-- Anonymous, August 17, 2001

Have e-mailed yiz both. Dougal - which is the correct address for you - dougal09@hotmail.com ??? You never answer :-(

-- Anonymous, August 17, 2001

Sorry, pet - I forget to look at my hotmail accounts. The lynda one is more apt to getting my attention, though. Will check mails noo.

-- Anonymous, August 17, 2001

Are you trying to tell me you do check your work email? Could have fooled me!

-- Anonymous, August 17, 2001

Cheers Screach....

-- Anonymous, August 17, 2001

Beer and bbq tonight
Oil change for the car(courtesy of Jiffy Lube down the street), grocery shopping tomorrow
Listening to our webcast on Sunday. Probably won't be going all the way to DC to watch as it's on 4hrs tape delay here, and I can't afford the time or gas anyway :-( Course if we win my school project goes out the window and I'll eat pasta for the next week or two. ;-)

-- Anonymous, August 17, 2001

Still unpacking (will it ever end) haircut the morra, school work in the pm, some bevvies tomorrow night. Sunday up with the birds, have some breakfast and off to watch the lads...........hopefully to be pleasantly surprised by how good we are with half a team missing.

-- Anonymous, August 17, 2001

Hey Syme, does your lass know you'll be up with the birds on Sunday morning? Go on, tell me you're just doing it for a lark.

-- Anonymous, August 17, 2001

Hosting the North Tyneside International Blue Dart frog world championships tomorrow.

Flying to Budapest to see a race on Sunday.

-- Anonymous, August 17, 2001

What race would that be? Oh, don't tell me - Hungarians. That's the race that lives in Budapest.

-- Anonymous, August 17, 2001

The Blue dart frog races are bieng held in the North Shields Riksarena. It atracts Frog racers from around the world.Realy looking forward to it.

-- Anonymous, August 17, 2001

Running around La Paz like a heedless chook trying to find a bar ... that opens at 8 am. on a Sunday ... with ESPN ... or maybe Fox Sports World? ... or failing that, a hotel with cable TV ... in a (very) cheap room ... unless of course they happen to show the match tape- delayed by 2 hours ... in which case I`ll need the room for two nights as I`ll have missed checkout time ... aaaaahh me heed's just exploded!! wish us luck

-- Anonymous, August 17, 2001

It would be a lot easier for all you Geordies in far away places just to come back home and see the toon play live.

-- Anonymous, August 17, 2001

Err is it only me who is going to a football match? Although living in one of the exotic locations mentioned on here does appeal.I'll decide at 5 oclock tomorrow if going to the match is the right choice.

-- Anonymous, August 17, 2001

Where you going Kev? Gateshead??

-- Anonymous, August 17, 2001

Naaa..why go when it's being webcast for free. ;-)

-- Anonymous, August 17, 2001

Ah yes screacher.Sarcasm ,the last resort of a scoundrol. i am starting on the beer at 12 then attempting to avoid the morons under the nf banners before seeing our charge to the champions league start,ahem.Then on sunday the big one,a trip to scarboro!

-- Anonymous, August 17, 2001

Kev - I hope you have a great time. Yes, truly - Scarborough is a nice place on a fine day ;-) Behave yersel' mind on Saturday. We don't want you getting arrested!

-- Anonymous, August 17, 2001

Err is it only me that is going to watch football , not excactly Kev, Saturday , watch me local ams team , 2nd game of season , nip up to pub after match , soup/sarnies for visiting team, sell 2 x football cards, helps pay the ref (£21 btw) , few pints, taak football , back home for couple of cannies, curry , and football on the box.

Sunday watch the under 16`s from 11 , into pub, taak football, back hame, attempt to taak football with wor lass , grandchildren on scene wearing Celtic colours, keep pressing a photo of him at 6 months in toon colours into his face , get told to behave , gan outside for a kick a boot , set up station with tranny and rad 5 , words to the effect of that `s got rid of him for two hours . The good lady knows this is crucial, it will set the pattern for the evening , of long faces if we lose , or the big smiley, smiley , carol smiley if we win.

One does not have to be at the game to be far away from football, but you can never compensate.

-- Anonymous, August 17, 2001

Evening kev, nice to see yer in good spirits. Enjoy the game the morra, hope you lot get tonked ;-) have loads of injuries and have to field a reserve team up at wor place. Of course having just jinked ipswich, you lot are now sure to win....

-- Anonymous, August 17, 2001

Buff - got to gain some Brownie points so seeing me Ma. Now, if the Spartans happen to be at hyem..............

-- Anonymous, August 17, 2001

Ah the Spartans and memories of balmy fa cup nights at SJP, Jackie Marks and others , hey two of the clique inc yersel will remember

-- Anonymous, August 17, 2001

Hey! ah was at the spartans game against exeter, in fact I even knocked off school so I could get a ticket for the leazes, and I even made it onto the pitch after the match. Great night

-- Anonymous, August 17, 2001

Went to the Stoke and Wrexham away matches but couldn't get to the Wrexham replay at SJP. Great atmos. Great memories!

-- Anonymous, August 17, 2001

My mistake it was wrexham, dixie dean an' all that. Exeter was when we got tonked 4-0 with Steve carney(?) lying in the box playing everyone on side.

-- Anonymous, August 17, 2001

Yeah - at the Racecourse Ground, in injury time, they got a disputed incorrect corner and DD scored from it. Me Dad went mental - which is saying something for the most mild-mannered guy in Blyth. We'd have played @rse in the 6th round (or was it the Quarters??). That would have been a canny earner ;-)

-- Anonymous, August 17, 2001

Right - I'm off to the boozer to see if the landlord is correct when he says they divvent shut ;-)

-- Anonymous, August 17, 2001

>>It would be a lot easier for all you Geordies in far away places just to come back home and see the toon play live.

Aye it would indeed Rik. Only not so much of a challenge ;O)). Actually I`m plotting right now for when we hit the UK. Don`t tell wor lass just yet but I reckon our `joint` itinerary may just permit 5 games out of 7 in December (tix permitting naturally) hehehe. So how`s the engine running in your motor right now? And BTW did young Maverick ever recover from sharing a car with me to & from Boro last year?!

-- Anonymous, August 17, 2001

Have to say i am overwhelmed with the good spirit shown on here tonight.God i am going soft!!!! Tell you lot what,i am prepared to cut some slack for you,you will only lose by 2 on sunday.Now i cant say fairer than that can i? Have a good weekend all the good people.

-- Anonymous, August 17, 2001

I'll be at work saturday and sunday - checking the Bedlington Terriers result first thing on sunday morning then watching the lads play at 1am on monday morning. I'm excited already. Everyone else have a good one and for the lads that are struggling to watch it - good luck or move to New Zealand and watch it at my place.

-- Anonymous, August 17, 2001

Thanks Soops. I'd be happy content with that...............as long as we win wor next two games ;-)

-- Anonymous, August 17, 2001

After several months of remorseless pressure from wor lass I have given in and yesterday we acquired a 12 week old West Highland White Terrier called Reg. My life for the next few months will be spent mainly trying not to step on it, clearing up the ever increasing turds, being blamed for raising my voice in HIS presence and being blamed for not stopping him ravaging all of the expensive shrubs I have just planted. Here's me thinking that retirement meant freedom!

-- Anonymous, August 18, 2001

Aren't West Highlands notorious diggers? isn't that what they were bred for?....I feel for ya plants already....

-- Anonymous, August 18, 2001

I've just returned from Germany, so wanna take it easy this weekend. The pub, then bed.

Did anyone go to this game by any chance?

FOOTBALL LIVE REPORTS

Leicester City 0 Bolton 5

By Alistair Grant, PA Sport

Premiership new boys Bolton rocked dire Leicester with a dream first half that took Wanderers soaring to an amazing victory at Filbert Street today.

Kevin Nolan looped a great header over goalkeeper Tim Flowers for the opener and, after Michael Ricketts almost ripped the net with a powerful finish, the midfielder pounced on a loose ball to crack home Bolton's third.

Per Frandsen rifled home the fourth from an 18-yard free-kick on the stroke of half-time and added a late second from another set-piece.

Flowers was left exposed time and time again, enraging home fans who ended the match chanting for the head of under-pressure manager Peter Taylor.

Sam Allardyce's side tore sorry City apart as Taylor's defence went AWOL, allowing the Division One play-off winners the perfect start to life in the top flight.

Wanderers are back in the Premiership after a three-year absence, and on this evidence, this time they are here to stay.

City could have done with England rugby star Martin Johnson - watching from high up in the Carling Stand - to teach them a thing or two about tackling, because even midfield pairing Dennis Wise, signed from Chelsea this summer, and Robbie Savage could scarcely manage a decent challenge between them.

Allardyce left 32-year-old striker Dean Holdsworth on the bench after his pre-season knee injury, while Leicester were missing £3million signing Jamie Scowcroft, out with a thigh problem.

After a pre-match barrage of fireworks, City came within a yard of seizing the lead after just two minutes. Muzzy Izzet whipped in a cross from the left that Matt Elliott met at the far post but he could not quite direct his header goalwards.

Nolan punted a 30-yarder way over the City crossbar but he was bang on target on the quarter-hour mark when he looped a brilliant header over Flowers and into the top-left corner of the net.

Frandsen delivered a spectacular sliding cross from the right wing and Nolan leapt high to nod his side in front from eight yards, prompting wild celebrations from the 2,000-strong travelling support.

Wanderers came close to extending their lead just four minutes later when Gudni Bergsson connected with a firm header from a left-flank Bo Hansen cross but the ball flew a yard wide of Flowers' right-hand post.

Bolton were beating City at their own game and the rampant visitors took a 2-0 lead from a Ricketts thunderbolt in the 31st minute. Ricardo Gardner threaded a ball into the home penalty area and the giant forward shrugged off Gary Rowett's challenge to lash the ball past the exposed Flowers.

City hit back with an Elliott volley over the top after a clever Izzet cross but the visitors unbelievably hit their third goal after 39 minutes.

Frandsen dinked a cheeky free-kick into the box, Bergsson flicked the ball towards the six-yard line and Nolan pivoted to crash home his second past Flowers, who again had no chance of making a save.

Flowers then made a brilliant save from Nolan but was again left helpless when Frandsen blasted an unstoppable 18-yard free-kick past the unsighted keeper on the stroke of half-time for Bolton's fourth.

Taylor - who must have delivered a half-time team-talk that had paint blistering off the dressing room wall - made three substitutions at the interval.

The desperate home boss hauled off ineffective strikers Ade Akinbiyi and Dean Sturridge, along with Callum Davidson, and threw on Lee Marshall, Junior Lewis and Arnar Gunnlaugsson.

A rare City opportunity arrived when Lewis headed over an Izzet cross while Lewis' 16-yard header was well over.

However, he provided Leicester's sole threat in an uneventful second half.

Bolton sealed a totally emphatic victory in the 82nd minute with an inch-perfect Frandsen free-kick. City's Rowett - at fault for the second goal - needlessly pulled down Hansen 22 yards from goal and Frandsen curled a sweet shot inside Flowers' left-hand post.

-- Anonymous, August 18, 2001

Just back in Germany from Texas this morning and at lunchtime I caved in and signed up for pay-per-view for the season so I can watch the massacre match tomorrow.

-- Anonymous, August 18, 2001

Pinhead????????

-- Anonymous, August 18, 2001