Why do you support the Toon.

[waalsendmick]

i wasn't aware you had a choice?!?!

I was brought up in battle hill (council estate in wallsend) you either supported the toon or didn't like football.


mind you, if I had made a choice, it would only have been the Toon.

there's been good times and bad, but I wouldn't change a thing.

[ex_pat_magpie]

Born less than 1000 yds from the stadium and was taken to my first game by my uncle, Arthur Gallagher, nicknamed Hughie when he was a lad at school.

That was the first game to be played after the war before league football started again. It was a friendly against Middlesborough which we won.

The attendance was over 30,000 but to a youngster's eyes it seemed as though the whole world was there.

By coincidence in later life my Uncle Arthur finished up living next door to Hughie Gallacher in Carr Hill, Gateshead and they became good friends.

[sherwoodmag]

i wasn't aware you had a choice?!?!

I was brought up in battle hill (council estate in wallsend) you either supported the toon or didn't like football.


mind you, if I had made a choice, it would only have been the Toon.

there's been good times and bad, but I wouldn't change a thing.

Battlehill wasn't built when I was a kid but my daughter lives there now,when I come up her and my son in law come with me to the match.

[mag315]

Me dad was from Throckley, he moved to Peterborough area for work years ago, started to take me when I was nine nearly 50-years ago, he's sadly passed now but I'm still going ... home and away, ST holder travel up from Peterborough area with a mate and my son's, seen some good times and some very dire ones ... but wouldn't change a thing ... good times ahead hopefully ... mind you been saying that for years