Tom Lynch

NUFC season ticket holder (Men & Women), bookworm, historian, and an astonishingly bad guitarist.

[Tom Lynch @Tom_NUFC]

@FootballInT80s Yes, and while I was watching as a 14 year old on my portable telly in my room, I had the window open. There was a loud ‘BOOM!’ from several miles away as the IRA blew up a gas holder in Gateshead.

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@philhirstgreen @Lady_FanAccount @liamgallagher @BoneheadsPage That’s the one I’ve heard too. Liam did come up with ‘So Sally can wait’ though. Noel didn’t have the lyrics and was ad-libbing nonsense. Liam overheard him: ‘are you singing so Sally can wait?’. Noel replied: ‘well I am now’

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@BrunoAlvessi @PaulRCove @ManagerTactical Agreed that Americans neither invented or misused the term, but when Americans point out that the term is British in origin, that in itself misses a whole heap of context

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@BrunoAlvessi @ManagerTactical Oh they have been. But I think say if Americans referred to things as being ‘spiffing’ rather than excellent, that would get mocked too! 😂 Look, I understand why it’s used in America, but when the British origin is brought up, I just think the context is required

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@BrunoAlvessi @ManagerTactical … ‘what ho old chap’, ‘spiffing’ etc… ‘Soccer’ was part of that speech’ so in that respect, it’s not nonsensical. It’s just the way things have developed that’s all, so whilst the term ‘Soccer’ is British in origin it’s so far removed from the majority of ordinary Brits.

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@BrunoAlvessi @ManagerTactical … ‘Soccer’ was an alien term not used by the mass British public. When it has been used here, it’s been more of an alternative journalistic term, but very odd in actual speech. Of course in the US the term ‘Soccer’ is easier to use to differentiate it from Gridiron.

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@The_Forty_Four It would’ve been Spain 82 but I was far to young to really take it in. Proper memories of Mexico 86. Italia 90 for the first one I watched in depth/pretty much fully

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@90sfootball Bebeto

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@chimaobi_saint I doubt he said ‘Mom’, he’s not from America or Birmingham.

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@northumbriana No problem at all, but Geordie, other NE accents and Scots all share the same descent don’t they

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@terrychristian I do if I’m actually going to the match. Aside from that I don’t.

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@Lainedil_NUFC I’m genuinely not fussed who wins

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@lebzygold @nocontextfm1 Nowt wrong with The Killers. They’re canny, but Football doesn’t need this. It’s saying we need extra entertainment to make it more attractive. No! Football is enough! Whether it’s the Champions League Final, World Cup Final, a Northern League match. We don’t need or want this!

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@DanielCarr57175 @swinburne_mark … he arrived early with his boots in a paper bag and sat on the steps eating 2 meat pies and a bottle of pop. His side were 3-0 down at half time and he was told to buck his ideas up if he wanted a contract. He scored 6 in the second half with his team winning 9-3

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@DanielCarr57175 @swinburne_mark That was the story about his trial match. He’d replied to an advert NUFC put in the paper looking for players (with it being wartime). He was invited to play in a training match and scored 2 goals so was invited back to a trial match a few days later…

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@swinburne_mark Detested the first 4 (Bruce, McClaren, Souness, Gullit).

I think Dalglish was more disappointment than hate.

I thought Pardew was an arsehole at times, but other times he was funny and decent. No animosity towards him now.

Last 3, no hate, even if Eddie has frustrated me

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@swinburne_mark Bruce
McClaren
Souness
Gullit
Dalglish
Pardew
Hughton
Howe
Benitez