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Greasing palms

We don't need no – advertisements!

Well, despite over 500 objections being listed on the council’s website Fat Mike Ashley has been given the go-ahead to drape adverts for his dodgy merchandise all over a landmark in Newcastle city centre – to whit, St James’ Park. I mentioned the story a few weeks [...]

Black and White and Shitting all over

TOON! TOON!

Anyone else here bricking themselves about today’s little kickabout? I’ll likely be in a pub in Dundee that sells reasonably-priced Brown Ale and as near the comforting arms of my better half in case the worst happens. And which sells comfortable-priced Brown Ale and is near the celebratory arms of my [...]

Footie round-up

A football. Yesterday.

Mixed bag this weekend. Newcastle United unsurprisingly thrashed by Liverpool escaping lightly, in all honesty, by only shipping three goals. The mackem filth, thankfully, failed to score at home against Everton who ran out 0-2 winners. Both of us are now hoping for Hull to maintain their poor run of [...]

Secondary football team

Gateshead FC

Thanks to the wonders of the interwebnetsupermegahighway it’s now easier to get details of even the smaller football teams. While you’ll almost never see a team below the second division (or whatever it’s called this week) on TV unless they get into a decent cup tie, they all have web pages [...]

Emo whingers!

Just to show I’m not biased for/against groups of people, but prefer to judge individuals, there are two stories in the news over the weekend relating to the whole “emo” thing.

First up was the so-called “Black Parade” in London, where a load of emo kids marched in protest against the Daily Mail’s comments [...]