Uri Geller

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Did Anyone else see that article on Sky News about Uri Geller?

He used his energy like at the Arsenal game so that we could beat the mackems.

This included running around the outside of the SOS touching the walls.

He has a newcastle shirt that says "Spoon Army" on the back.

-- Anonymous, February 26, 2002

Answers

He's clearly a nut case. He also said if he was allowed in the dressing room at some point this season it would guarantee us a trophy! I would try anything if it meant we could win something!

-- Anonymous, February 26, 2002

Hey if it means winning a cup let him in for the rest of the season Bobby ! :o)

Or is he just to tight to pay for a ticket?

-- Anonymous, February 26, 2002


But he's a reading fan , if he were that good why are reading so sh1t..

-- Anonymous, February 26, 2002

I think having Uri Geller running around football grounds touching the walls is fine by me. I'm sure such odd behaviour could be only be viewed as normal by the window-lickers on Wearyside.

Besides, I think Dabizas had the positive energy that won the game :-) Is that tosser going to tag along to all our future games now?

-- Anonymous, February 26, 2002


He is a bullshitter. I admire the man for he is king of the bullshitting world. Hands up the person who has never tried to bend a spoon with mind power?

-- Anonymous, February 26, 2002


YBR did his nut in in one of the matchday programmes about Geller's claims, saying that he hoped none of us attached any credence to it.

-- Anonymous, February 26, 2002

if only geller could take 20 years off bobby...

-- Anonymous, February 26, 2002

that's make me 8 yrs old! No thanks, I enjoy my ale too much.

-- Anonymous, February 26, 2002

no, but that would virtually leave me free to run off with your lass... :-)

-- Anonymous, February 26, 2002

I'd like to see him bend cutlery after I've shoved a 24 piece dinner service up his ar$e.

Isn't witchcraft still illegal in the UK? SAFC may have grounds to have the result overturned!;O)

ML³

-- Anonymous, February 26, 2002



odd coming from a club that calls itself the black cats :-)

-- Anonymous, February 27, 2002

Actually, Black cats was a reference to the guns that used to defend Wearmouth in the 19th c, "Cat" being an Olde-fashioned term for Cannon.

Nee supersitions associated with Magpies at all, of course...;O)

ML³

-- Anonymous, February 27, 2002


That's even stranger given the nickname is only ever is association with a picture of a cat (of the feline variety)! If you had images of cannons, fair enough (e.g. Arse).

Did you vote for the Black Cats nickname, cuboid? :-)

-- Anonymous, February 27, 2002


It's a pun Bobby.

Did you know that a "Magsman" in 19c slang is "An inferior cheat"?? ;O)

ML³

-- Anonymous, February 27, 2002


PS, I did vote for "Black Cats" cos it was our nickname from 1879 till some southern tit decided it was "The Rokerites" in the 1980's.

ML³

-- Anonymous, February 27, 2002



ML3 you tw*t Not only can i NOT wear my weatherproof golf gear cos its got sunderland on it , I also cant wear my Lynx Black Cat hat thanks to peeps like you.......

Kb

-- Anonymous, February 27, 2002


What a CatAr$etrophy!

;7)

-- Anonymous, February 27, 2002


A pun, you say? Nah, I think if I were a makem (shudder, spit) I would prefer to see the military history of the name used. Put it this way, Black Cats is not the most obvious nickname I can think of (no, I'll not start on the one's we give you :-) ).

Anyone think of some nickname's that seem to not make any sense?

Why are Leicester 'foxes', for instance?

-- Anonymous, February 27, 2002


Simple, Bobby.

Big time fox country - Quorn hunt an' all that. The Leicestershire coat of arms features a fox.

-- Anonymous, February 27, 2002


Puzzling ones:

Brentford Bees-Bees aren't red and white.
Addicks - I'm sure there's a reason but I've forgotten
The Grecians - Exeter


-- Anonymous, February 27, 2002


I heard the Charlton "Addicks" explanation on Monday on R5live.

The story goes they used to change in a chip shop and the owner used to give them cod if they lost but haddock if they won. Haddocks becake 'addocks became Addicks!

Brentford - the B's became the Bees (better than Nylons)!

Exeter - Someone else can explain Grecians.

-- Anonymous, February 27, 2002


Thought quorn was a vegetarian option?

Found these too (http://www.footballculture.net/teams/names_nick3.html):

Addicks derives from the South London slang for the Haddock fish. Accounts vary as to why this became Charlton's nickname but it is likely that it was due to the original teams love of eating Haddock or the fact that they took opponents for a fish supper after the games Ed - Sounds like bollocks to me.

The Arabs Dundee United Reason: their pitch was really sandy years ago.

Baggies so called because their players used to wear baggy shorts. (lame

Gasmen (Surely 'Boro? Bristol Rovers their old ground was next to a gasworks.

The Rams so named after a local myth of an 100ft Ram that was said to have appeared in the city.

Red Devils possibly a modern invention, although some say it is a natural follow-on from the older nickname, Heathens, used when the club was called Newton Heath.

Royals Reason: Reading were for many years the Biscuitmen but, after biscuit-making declined in the town in 1974, a competition was held to choose a new (and less ridiculous) nickname. Royals was chosen because Berkshire is also deemed to be a royal county, being also the home of Windsor Castle.

Shakers Bury Reason: asked about his team's chances against the might Blackburn Rovers in the 1892 Lancashire Cup Final, Bury's chairman was reported to have said, 'We'll shake 'em!'

Grecians Exeter City Reason: Grecians was the nickname given to local market boys in the area.

Imps Lincoln City Reason: Lincoln's cathedral is famous for its Imp, a stone figure of the devil.

Cobblers (no, it's true) Northampton Town Reason: Northampton was a centre for the shoe-making industry and someone who makes and repairs shoes is known as a Cobbler.

The Drill Fielders, Northwich Victoria Reason: They are sometimes referred to as "The Drill Fielders" - The Drill Field being the name of the ground, and this came from the fact that Northwich has always been a salt-mining town.

Hammers Reason: the first West Ham side were part of Thames Ironworks and an ironmonger's main tool is a hammer.

Mystery ones to be solved are:

Bolton - Trotters
Huddersfield - Terriers
Sheff Wed - Owls
Crewe - Railwaymen (ok, something to do with the railway, but why so significant?)
Swindon - Robins
Walsall - Saddlers
Bournemouth - Cherries (all virgins?)
Bristol Rovers - Pirates (another name?)
Chester City - Seals ('cos when they win the ball they got paid a fish?)
Halifax - Shamen (move any mountain)
Macclesfield - Silkmem
Mansfield - Stags
Peterborough - Posh (have you ever been there?!?!)
PNE - "The Invincibles" (I s**t you not)
Wycombe Wanderers - Chairboys (that's what the website said)
Scunny - the Iron
Luton f**kin' Town - Hatters
Rotherham - Millers
Darlo - Quakers

-- Anonymous, February 27, 2002


PNE - The Invincibles

Preston completed the first ever season of the football league as champions and were undefeated in the whole season. The feat has never been repeated - although the full season was only 22 games.



-- Anonymous, February 27, 2002

Ones I know for definite:

- Halifax's is after "The Shay" ground - Sheff Wed was formed in the Owlerton district of Sheffield - Grecians is on account of ECFC being formed in a largely Greek suburb of Exeter.

This is a question that is frequently asked. The Club adopted the nickname from the name given to inhabitants of the Parish of St. Sidwell's. (The St. Sidwellian Old Boys were co-founders of ECFC in 1904.) People from this parish have been known as "Greeks" or "Grecians" for centuries but how this nickname originated is not so easy to discover.

I presume Cherry and Robins are something to do with playing in red, and Saddlers, Hatters, Rotherham, Silkmen and Railwaymen are something do with the trades of the founders.

ML³

-- Anonymous, February 27, 2002


Isn't Hillsborough in a district of Sheffield called Owlerton?
Luton was the centre of the hat making industry (when there was one). Mad as a hatter came from there overuse of Mercury in the process I think, which speaks volumes for the area.
Crewe - the club was founded by railwaymen

-- Anonymous, February 27, 2002

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