Gallowgate Humour: Newcastle Fans Attack Mike Ashley
AH, the Geordie fans of Newcastle United, a breed apart, a nation apart, a place where delusions are encouraged and the car-Toon army actually believe that their stadium is the best, their fans the most loyal and their club “massive”.
The one thing you won’t see at Newcastle is smiling, worldly-wise fans lampooning their own team’s failings and ole-ing when a single pass goes to a teammate.
Newcastle United’s fans are devoid of humour, even gallows humour in the Gallowgate.
And here’s Alan McKenna, who looks like Newcastle chairman Mickey Ashley, walking into a bar in Chester-le-Street, County Durham, and being asked by Newcastle fans if he is the real thing.
He denies it. Says Alan: “But one of them said: ‘You f****ng liar’ and went to throw a punch at me.”
McKenna now plans to get a shirt printed with “I’m Not Mike” printed on the back.”
A rare sign of humour in a pit of self-indulgent, self-pitying fans…
Posted: 17th, September 2008 | In: Back pages, Tabloids Comments (5) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed: RSS 2.0 | TrackBack | Permalink
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September 17th, 2008 at 5:33 pm
I used to deliver stuff to Chester-le-Street businesses and shops in the dim-and-distant. It’s a great place as long as you’re wearing a parcelman’s uniform. I wouldn’t dare go there with a footy shirt on, as it is in the hazy border zone between Toon and SAFC fans - and makes the Chechen border look calm some nights. Tension. Cut. Knife. You.
It’s a nice place during the day though, with a large market, Lumley Castle nearby and a big well-kept park to sit and read while slyly drinking Benedictine from a Panda pop bottle. I got my backside pinched and slapped a lot in the clothing factories though. Wimmen, eh? Worse than us blokes sometimes.
September 17th, 2008 at 1:20 pm
I used to have a T shirt with “I am not Bob Klees” on the back ( I wont bore you with the story) but I do look a little like him. To compound the problem I bought his motorcycle from him, thus confusing more people.
No one wanted to punch me though, at least not for that!
September 17th, 2008 at 10:24 am
Yes I remember the Newsreel
September 17th, 2008 at 10:18 am
They won the league in black and white
September 17th, 2008 at 9:58 am
Toon fans see everything in back and white