The Longsands release their latest single

Local band and friend of The Seats, The Longsands, have released their latest single, an anti-establishment rant called “Little Britain”.

The Longsands are known for being the band behind the version of The Blaydon Races played at half-time at SJP.

You can the buy new single at the following places:

iTunes
Amazon
7Digital
HMV on Northumberland Street, Metro Centre and Silverlink

You can also see the video with Howard Marks on YouTube

There’s also more info about the band and the Blaydon Races release for the Sir Bobby Robson foundation on their website, http://www.thelongsands.co.uk

East Coast Trains name the ‘Sir Bobby Robson’

East Coast today (Tuesday, 29 March 2011) named a Class 91 high-speed locomotive ‘Sir Bobby Robson’ in memory of the former England and ‘Toon’ football legend.

Sir Bobby’s widow, Lady Elsie Robson and former England and Newcastle United captain, Alan Shearer OBE, patron of the Sir Bobby Robson Foundation charity, performed the train-naming along with Elaine Holt, Chairman of East Coast at Newcastle Central Station this morning.

The ‘Sir Bobby Robson’ Class 91 electric locomotive (number 91109) features specially-commissioned, cast-iron nameplates.

Speaking at the event, Elaine Holt, chairman of East Coast said: “We are honoured to name the first of our prestigious locomotives ‘Sir Bobby Robson’ in memory of such a legendary and much-respected sporting figure.

“Sir Bobby was a regular train traveller between the North East and London, during his management career and beyond, as he worked tirelessly to raise funds and awareness for his Sir Bobby Robson Foundation charity.  He was loved by many of our staff, particularly those at Durham and Newcastle stations who remember him with great affection.

“As it speeds through the North East on the East Coast route, this specially-named train will help to keep the memory of Sir Bobby Robson in people’s minds and we hope will raise further awareness of his enduring legacy and the Sir Bobby Robson Foundation for many years to come.”

East Coast is pledging its support for the Sir Bobby Robson Foundation, the cancer charity set up by Sir Bobby in 2008.

Newcastle and England striker Alan Shearer, a patron of the Foundation, spoke of his pride as the gleaming locomotive, bearing the name of the man still revered as a legend on Tyneside shone in the morning light at the city’s Central Station.

Alan said: “It is an absolute honour and pleasure to officially name a high-speed East Coast train ‘Sir Bobby Robson’. I’m sure that Sir Bobby would be very proud to see his name and legacy continued in this very fitting and special way.

“It is also fantastic news that East Coast have decided to support the Sir Bobby Robson Foundation as one of their chosen charities.”

Alan added: “I am a regular traveller to London on East Coast trains and I’m looking forward to the day when the locomotive on front of the train I’m on is the ‘Sir Bobby Robson’ locomotive…I think he would find it very amusing pulling Alan Shearer all the way to London at 125 miles per hour!”

Thanks to fantastic ongoing support, the Sir Bobby Robson Foundation has now raised well over £2.5 million to help find more effective treatments for cancer.

In addition to equipping and partially staffing the Sir Bobby Robson Cancer Trials Research Centre at the Northern Centre for Cancer Care in Newcastle it has purchased an ultra-compact cyclotron which will help with the diagnosis and treatment of cancer.

The cyclotron costs in excess of £500,000 and is only the second of its type in the world and the first in Europe.

Lady Elsie said: “I think my husband would be surprised and thrilled to have this train named after him.

“He travelled frequently by train so I feel this is very appropriate and my family and I appreciate the gesture.

“We’re also very grateful for the fund-raising efforts East Coast are undertaking in aid of the Sir Bobby Robson Foundation and we will ensure the money is put to the very best use fighting cancer.”

East Coast provides high speed, long distance rail services linking the North East to Scotland, Yorkshire, the East Midlands and London. It also manages 12 stations along the route including Newcastle, Durham and Darlington.
The North East will benefit from an exciting new timetable from 22 May, including a prestige ‘Flying Scotsman’ non-stop express from Newcastle to London, completing the journey in just two hours and 37 minutes. From the same date, an additional three weekday and 11 weekend services will be introduced between Newcastle and London, whilst passengers will see the introduction of a new, improved on-board service, including complimentary meals and drinks served in First Class

Details of the Sir Bobby Robson Foundation, including updates on fundraising and projects supported by the charity are available online at: www.sirbobbyrobsonfoundation.org.uk

Info courtesy of Liz Luff

Are you a footy fan with a Sweet Tooth?

If you know a footie fan with a sweet tooth, this could be just the page for you.

They do some fabulous footie related cakes (and others) and can be found here.

Hand Made and Delicious!

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The 50 worst transfers

The Times published this article stating the 50 worst transfers in Premier League history since its inception. Make of this what you will but unsuprisingly there are a few mags present.

Including….

43 Titus Bramble, Ipswich Town to Newcastle United, £5m, July 2002

Bramble looked like a future England player when at Ipswich but became a byword for calamitous defending at Newcastle.

40 Michael Owen, Real Madrid to Newcastle United, £16m, August 2005

The English striker has fared reasonably well when fit but injuries mean Newcastle have yet to see anything like a decent return for their money.

36 Jon Dahl Tomasson, Heerenveen to Newcastle United, £2.5m, July 1997

Played as a striker rather than his more familiar attacking midfield role, the Dane was out of position and out of luck.

28 Faustino Asprilla, Parma to Newcastle United, £6.7m, February 1996

The Colombian was a fine player who enjoyed some good times at Newcastle but his mid-season arrival appeared to unbalance a team that had seemed destined for the Premier League title.

25 Stephane Guivarc’h, Auxerre to Newcastle United, £3.5m, June 1998

The World Cup winners’ medal that the striker collected with France needed to be seen to be believed by frustrated Newcastle fans.

19 Hugo Viana, Sporting Lisbon to Newcastle United, £8.5m, June 2002

The young Portuguese midfield player spent most of his two years at the club on the bench.

12 Jean-Alain Boumsong, Rangers to Newcastle United, £8m, January 2005

Somehow made it into France’s World Cup finals squad last year but Newcastle fans were relieved when the error-prone central defender left for Juventus.

6 Marcelino, Real Mallorca to Newcastle United, £5m, June 1999

Dubbed the “lesser-spotted Magpie”, he played just 17 Premier League games in three and a half years at St James’ Park.

3 Albert Luque, Deportivo La Coruna to Newcastle United, £9.5m, August 2005

One of a host of expensive signings by Newcastle to have disappeared down a black and white hole. The Stevens Inquiry placed a question mark over the transfer and the rest of the world placed a question mark over why Newcastle bought him at all. 

Thanks to CD for this story.

Love NUFC - don’t really care about SAFC?

Posted on Twitter by @MikeNE3 - the difference between ourselves and the unwashed of #SAFC

Happy Christmas One and All

Best Wishes to all our readers and fans, thanks again for your continued support.

Have a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

Cheers from Robbo, Gaz and Matty.

Newcastles January Transfer Kitty Exclusive

Thats right folks f++k all.

and we all know……………….

Ugly Football The Winner?

So allegedly Big Fat Sam has come out and said “Pretty Football has never won anything!” today, well Mr A what about……

Brazil 1958, 1970 world cups

Italy 1982 world cup

France 1984 european championships

Argentina 1986 world cup

Holland 1988 european championships

Denmark 1992 european championships

France 1998 world cup & 2000 european championships

Spain 2010 world cup & 2008 european championships

All the great teams that have won titles in Europe since 1956 and all the great modern teams that have won the premiership and La Liga titles.

The man is a total cretin - justifying his own bland shitness.

A shite team from the 1970s

Casino Royale - NUFC throws the dice

Alan Pardew is set to be named as the new Newcastle manager within the next 24 hours, BBC Sport understands. 

It is believed Pardew became close friends with Newcastle owner Mike Ashley and director Derek Llambias when all three were familiar faces at an exclusive London casino where Llambias was managing director.

What an absolute disgrace.

Welcome Honorary Seater #11

We welcome the Legendary Pie Man Stephen Ramm to the Honorary Seaters hall of fame.

He has made the lads some belting pies this season, including, Kebab and Salad Pies, Spaghetti Bolognese Pie, Savaloy and Pease Pudding pies………..

More to come from the lord of the pies.

We salute you, anyone has any #Piedeas - let us know info@shiteseats.co.uk

Ashes Day 3 - The Night in #PedrosBar

As @therealrobbo     sat down to watch the pivotal third day from Brisbane last night, he was looking forward to a relaxing but hopefully magical session by England as the Aussies loomed towards Englands 260 1st innings total menacingly.As the game progressed into a frustrating one for England as they failed to break open the Hussey Haddin defence, the eveing turned into a tirade of nonsensical ramblings and great banter in the imaginary pub simply known as #PedrosBar

The Landlord of #PedrosBar  is one @PeterSnowdon  whose imaginary pub (open Midnight to 7am only) offers punters globally the chance to enjoy the evenings cricket and let off a bit of imaginary steam. He offers the following - wine, beer, but no cocktails (not even lager and lime), a gay bouncer, £2 for for 3 ‘frames’ of pool and a Jukebox (but this isnt on during the cricket) which plays classics from the likes of Jimmy Cliff.

Present in #PedrosBar   last night were the following

@therealrobbo - Mad rambler from The Seats, whose 3rd stint in a row had likened him to an American twitter pal as Vampyric - believe me it showed.

The Landlord @PeterSnowdon - whose congenial hosting was second to none and he showed no liking of the word #Kernt on many an occasion.

@Luda14 - Mad Geordie, who from North of the border was loving the atmos and the banter and left early in a taxi only to return at 6am and find the bar locked up - devastated.

Resident radgey and local  @WeAreTheMags who turned up late. The rest of the people thought he was dead and abused him anyway. Some nuggets from WATM which I will share later, he brings the ‘dead’ to deadpan.

Then we have houseburner, gas sniffing @NorthernJam - a man who drank so much suring the session, that if his house was burning his gut would have been the catalyst to one of the biggest fires the NE has ever seen.

Big Deka aka @toon1892 whose blood group is Fosters+ ordered the largest drink order ever via Dial-A-Drink as #PedrosBar temporarily run out of the amber nectar, also passed out and some point and woke up thinking he’d been time travelling.

Our Canadian lass and pal @weeziebum joined the party late on and would not accept a job offer as #PedrosBar  was too small for her liking and to be fair.

There were others that joined the party at somepart - shout out to the corkingly named @bendirs1 - Jagermeister loving @ToonArmyMIA   . Apologies If I’ve missed anyone here are some of the highlight tweets from last nights session. Enjoy. Robbo x

“@therealrobbo  F*ck off that’s out man!!! Leave cricket alone Aussie Bias lives on, where’s my INXS records I’m Hannah (ganna) smash them up!”

“@petersnowdon: Switched to bud. More sustainable drink and lowered the pace. #ashes ” loving the through the gears approach. Top bevvying.

Like end of days ootside the house and 25 in Brisbane, still you know where I’d rather be? That’s right, Brisbane. #ashes

“@petersnowdon: @Luda14 mags only and no jukebox when the crickets on! #Pedrosbar.” open midnight-7am and no ferkin cocktails! #ashes

@CalumsDad agree my dad just textedit me with something similar, were getting nothing. Hussey as lucky as a dog with 2 dicks #ashes

“@Luda14: @petersnowdon woah, woah, Woah! Cocktails? What kinda bar is this? @therealrobbo” haha Australia is homo-erotic right? #tash

@WeAreTheMags  suggest you review your tweet history, we’ve had INXS, Cigars, Bloodgroups, Snow Deaths, clits, swearing, 456 not given LBWs..

Collys proving more expensive than a caviar dinner at the Ritz, then covering Olly Reids, George Bests and Alex Highins bar tab afterwards.

Think @toon1892 has passed out and needs a blood transfusion, some kernt better phone dial-a-drink his blood group is fosters #sneakedoot

Collingwood wears factor 5467

@WeAreTheMags  in case you missed it last night, the BBC website text updater bloke is called Ben Dirs. I’m not kidding!

Seems an INXS album has survived my onslaught ‘kick’ - lunch listening at 2am. Going to have a BBQ in my sitting room. #ashes

@northernjam @petersnowdon fuck me £2 for a game of pool, howay @Luda14 let’s wreck the place! #PedrosBar

Is @wearethemags still beating one out? Or has he died from eating uncooked pizza? Should have had lunch at #PedrosBar 2 for £6 #ashes

@therealrobbo just got a splinter from the pool cues! Rage is building, gonna send in @WeAreTheMags lol

“@petersnowdon:steady on with the aggro or I’ll set quentin the bouncer on you. I suggest you all have a light beer next” / Broon Ale please!

Right comfort break, splash my face with gin then back to the fight in #PedrosBar oh and the test match.

@WeAreTheMags sorry pal you’re family you are, you Radge F*ck Nugget

@NorthernJam: anyone know how you light the oven with a match ? it stinks of gas, she’s asleep, dunno what to do” // switch on light please!

Just heard a fucking huge kaboom hope @NorthernJam s hoose is still standing.

@shiteseats - Hoo @WeAreTheMags that Leon Best Is Mint shite is wors and it’s copyright - giz 20p

Ar man someones took a dump in the urinal #PedrosBar ooh shit crickets back, off to the snug.

Nice to hear Geoff Boycott has taken time out from beating his wife up to commentate for test match special…!!

Aal reet, aal reet, which c*nt woke @shiteseats up? There’s aalways one looking for trouble…!!

 @ToonArmyMIA the only ashes the convicts are getting are Bernard Matthews #ashes #pedrosbar

I haven’t laughed this much in bed since I brought them 2 lesbian midgets home one night! That’s was as mint as Leon Best that night!!

Fuck me I’ve just heard that Gazza is on his way to #PedrosBar with a fishing rod, some chicken & a couple of cans of Stella! LOCK THE DOOR!

I don’t mind @mikehussey75 still being out at the crease - it gives me more time to finger his missus in the VIP bogs!! #LuckyBitch

I’d just like it noted for the record that I’m only following @NorthernJam because he has inappropriate photos of me on his mobile…..

#pedrosbar doesn’t really do bars, but if they did ;-D #Ashes #toonwatch #TeamGeordie

@WeAreTheMags not sure, last thing I remember was you starting a fight with @NorthernJam cause you did a shit in his slipper!

@Luda14 - He didn’t see me take a piss in the picked onion jar did he?!! @NorthernJam

What the f*ck happened in #PedrosBar last night? & where did this blow-up sheep come from? @Luda14 @petersnowdon @NorthernJam  @therealrobbo

PEDROS BAR MEMBERSHIP - OPEN NOW! 

All Please follow the list that @NorthernJam has created HERE - to ensure you get awelcome to the phenomena that is #PedrosBar for the remaining Tests (potentially 22 nights - christ!) 

The FA Cup draw is near

The draw for the FA Cup is live on ITV from Wembey at 5.45 on Sunday. Noel from Oasis and Serge from Kasabian doing the honours of drawing the 32 matches played in the first week in January. This will follow the weekends 2nd round proper ties.

FC United of Manchester of the Northern Premier League Premier Division and Swindon Supermarine of the Southern League Premier Division, both from the seventh tier, are the lowest-ranked teams left in the competition at the 2nd round stage.

The FA Cup is the jewel in the FAs crown and will run over 10 months, involve 759 clubs and 758 games. Teams ranked 1st-44th will join in the 3rd round.

Some odds - To Win (best price)

Chelsea 5/1

Man Utd 11/2

Man City 8/1

Sunderland 50/1

Newcastle 66/1

Boro 200/1

Darligton 1250/1

The Ghost of Christmas Past

That Game at Hereford and that goal at Hereford, now immortalised forever by the FA. As theFA announce details of The Ronnie Radford Award for the best FA Cup giant-killers each season.

The Football Association has announced that a new annual award will launch this season, recognising the team which achieves the most impressive giant-killing act in The FA Cup sponsored by E.ON.

The award is named after Ronnie Radford whose long-range goal for Hereford United against Newcastle United in 1972 brought about arguably The FA Cup’s most famous giant-killing.

The FA’s General Secretary Alex Horne said: “The giant-killing nature of The FA Cup is part of the competition’s unique magic.

“Perhaps the most famous giant-killing of all was Hereford’s triumph over Newcastle in 1972. Ronnie Radford’s spectacular goal on a mud-covered Edgar Street pitch – watched by the TV cameras and greeted with unbridled glee by 26-year-old rookie commentator John Motson - is a constant and wonderful reminder of that FA Cup magic.

“I am delighted to announce that we are instituting ‘The Ronnie Radford Award’ for the team achieving the most impressive giant-killing act of the competition in any one year. We see it as a further way of acknowledging the huge part played in The FA Cup by teams from the lower leagues.”

Ronnie Radford added: “It is a real honour for me that The FA has chosen to use my name for this new award. It will be fantastic to see the achievements of the minnows of football recognised in this way.

“I would never have imagined when I scored that goal back in 1972 that it would still be shown on television almost 40 years later and recognised as one of The FA Cup’s most famous moments. I’m proud to have played my part in the wonderful history of The FA Cup and I look forward to seeing many more small teams upsetting the odds and earning their place in the spotlight.”

The Ronnie Radford Award will be voted for by fans online via TheFA.com from a shortlist of victories compiled by a panel of sports journalists. The winning team will be the guests of The FA at The FA Cup Final of that year – and be presented with the ‘Ronnie Radford Award’ on the pitch at half-time.