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New York To New Orleans on a Train Weds 8th Thurs 9th of June

Tweet If we had known the train from New York to New Orleans was going to leave six hours late it might not have been so bad. Hell this is the most exciting city on the planet, within two blocks … Continue reading

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Tuesday 7th of June. Manhattan

Tweet Motherfukka” said a man at the subway as his card wouldn’t swipe . His wife seemed to agree. Despite being unaccustomed to such heat we are much too chilled for such profanity; free of the mental and physical burden … Continue reading

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Monday 6th: “Geordies Here!” Manhattan and The Bronx

Tweet All our alarms went off: the hotel TV came on, my watch, Wifey’s phone then, like some little idiot  Corporal Jones, my simple minded phone stamped to attention after everybody else. Are we under attack, have we got to … Continue reading

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Sunday 5th of June :Hungover in London

Tweet “I’ve got a bastard behind the eyes” as the charming Mr Withnail says. I rarely have hangovers, a rare and dangerous gift which goes some way to balancing some of my family’s more troublesome inherited traits, so resent them … Continue reading

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Newcastle and London: Saturday 4th of June 2011

Tweet Train to London. Newcastle was grey and our house was clean for our tenants a full 3 minutes before our mates Paul and Dee turned up to take us to the central station. London was scorching. Hooked up with … Continue reading

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The World Tour Begins 2.6.2011

Right that’s it, I’m off. I’m not renewing my season ticket and I’m leaving Newcastle altogether. Not my usual idle threat at this time of year brought on by the shit weather that this country calls a summer, or this year in particular by the shabby way our club is treating darling Joey Barton. The car is sold and our belongings are packed into boxes, flogged at knock down prices, given away or spread into our neighbours’ wheelie bins (in the dead of night) throughout a half mile radius. Continue reading

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Newcastle United Season 2010/11 Perspective 23.5.2011

Tweet Newcastle United 3 v West Brom 3 Perhaps time will throw some perspective at this game. Perhaps there will come a point where we can look at the final table for the 2010/11 season without thinking it tarnished and … Continue reading

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The Billy Furious World Tour (2.5.2011)

Tweet The season ticket deadline has passed and I didn’t buy one. I’ve been ignoring the nagging reminders like they were a wedding invitation from a distant relative, trying not to think about it and failing. “What do these grasping … Continue reading

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Don’t Ask Any More Stupid Questions

Tweet Last month we discussed why one should spend money one has not got on things one does not need. I say “we discussed” when meaning I rambled on like a drunken old goat while you waited patiently for some … Continue reading

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Fashion (turn to the left) 28.2.2011

Tweet I was talking to my mate Graham over a pint in town. Unique your Graham, as all who know him will testify. He somehow manages to fuse together an intellectual insightfulness with Geordie docker’s vocabulary. For example I, rather … Continue reading

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