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Huge congratulations to Gateshead FC who have won their playoff final at home this evening and been promoted to the Blue Square Conference Premier! Along with the Newcastle Eagles and Newcastle Blue Star, it’s not been a bad week for Tyneside on the sporting front.
My fingers are crossed that Newcastle United can pull some kind of sympathetic rabbit out of the hat on Monday night…
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Newcastle Eagles, actually. They’ve just won the British Basketball League playoffs for the fourth time in five years, which isn’t bad going. I don’t follow basketball, but at least it’s good to see another of our teams doing well – it’s all good for the region. Bad luck to Everton Tigers who they beat – maybe next year!
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 form while we’ve got a game against Middlesbrough next week that we simply must take three points from.
Better news in the lower tiers, though. Newcastle Blue Star (not Brown Star as reported by the BBC – that’s… not quite right) secured promotion to the Unibond Premier League. And Gateshead played out a 1-1 draw at home against Southport to win their playoff 2-1 on aggregate and now have home advantage against AFC Telford in the one-legged final. With luck this will get them into the Conference. This game on May 8th, and my fingers are heartily crossed for them!
Oh, and not to forget Whitley Bay FC in the FA Vase final at Wembley next weekend. It’s all go.
Well, it’s new to me anyway. It’s called ScoreGrid and the feature that I’m loving is the Game Visualisation. Imagine a simple football field viewed from above where you can just see the ball moving around in real-time. The trail behind the ball tells you who has possession. Incidents like fouls, goal attempts and the like are signified with little popups.
Dead simple, very close to “as it happens” judging by my listening to 5Live at the same time. I’d put it around 15 seconds behind real life. You can fast-forward and replay a game from the start, locate certain points and so on.
I seem to recall the BBC having (do they still?) a virtual replay in true 3D where you could replay certain moments in certain games. I liked playing with that but the real-time nature of this makes a game almost watchable if you can’t get any other media. Overseas, you can’t listen to 5Live and the game may not be televised. This makes for a very acceptable alternative.
I used to have a lot of time for Ipswich Town. Their connection with Bobby Robson and the fact that my psycho ex is a Colchester United fan made me a little soft towards them and I liked to see them do well.
All that’s changed now, though. Hiring Roy “I’m tough when I can kick people but run away from a hard job when it’s not going my way” Keane as manager isn’t the most sensible of moves. Given that the last manager was sacked for, basically, not being good enough then why hire someone who’s admitted himself that he wasn’t any good in his last job?
Oh, he’s also a violent bastard who needs a good ******* hiding. But that’s beside the point. Just an opinion.
As an aside… If you have Google Toolbar installed and set to give you suggestions when you type stuff into it then try “roy keane” (no quotes) and see what the top one is. I get “roy keane ***** his dog”, so it must be a popular search!
Sorry, Ipswich. I feel for you, but I sincerely hope you get relegated next season now. Please don’t take it personally.
