Dear tf,

Just a quick note to let you know whoever wrote the Exile On Main St. article (18/Jun/06 TBAWE – www.true-faith.co.uk). Superb.

Regards

Davy


Dear tf,

Just read "Exile On Main St." (18/Jun/06 TBAWE – www.true-faith.co.uk ) - best article of its kind I've read this summer...cant say I disagree with any of it! I can't believe it made us get me fat arse up to type about it. My typing is shit!!...Keep rockin’ boys

Graham Hall


Dear tf,



My name is Mfundo Mathuthu, a lad of 22yrs who is a Magpies fan based in Zimbabwe. Unfortunately here we hardly get any info pertaining the Magpies. I thought you could assist by publishing my details in your magazines or web sites. I would like to correspond with any Magpie fan of any age and both sexes. My address is Mfundo Mathuthu, 211 Ntabazinduna flats, .P.O. Mzilikazi, Bulawayo, zimbabwe,africa

Mfundo Mathuthu, Bulawayo, Zimababwe.


Dear tf,

I'm loathe to jump the gun as Freddie usually pulls a rabbit out of the hat and in my opinion there is nothing that miserable, negative, twat Alan Olivier likes better than to run doon the Toon but, sitting in my foxhole in the middle of the Libyan Desert, I've just read his piece in tonight's Chronicle, over the net & I'm spitting blood! Comments like, 'We are Geordies we are not moaners', 'cut our cloth to suit', 'just have to get on with things' etc. Can you believe that, Jimmy Floyd (Fat Eddie Murphy) Hasslebank is being mentioned as a 'Stop Gap' replacement ! Well excuse me but FCUK that! We've just lost England's greatest ever centre forward and now we'll be without the services of the best current English striker of his generation for what will probably be a whole season! We don't need stop gaps we need two top quality goal-scorers at least one of whom must be in the 'World Class' category! Acceptable candidates include :- Dirk Kuyt, Ruud Van Nistleroy, Gudjonssen, Luca Toni, Lucas Podolski, Saviola, Crespo, Del Piero, Adriano, Anelka, Defoe, Ashton etc.

If Freddie thinks the fans are in the mood to write off another season before it's even started, he is sadly deluded!

Their patience was wearing thin last season and if everything possible is not done this close season to recruit a squad of players capable of finishing in the Top 5 & competing in the cups then I believe the fans will desert St James in their droves.

Crowds of - 30,000 will be the norm unless positive action is taken now!

When Owen is fit he should have to fight to get back into our team, its no less than the fans deserve.

The club must deliver or the fans will finally vote with their feet.

Nigel, Toon Army - Desert Legion


Dear tf,

I don't know if it's the right way to react but I felt like Michael Owen deserved to be ruled out of the world cup (then again - I didn't realise at the time that he'd be out 5 months at least, completely knackin’ up our plans for next season).

Here we have a man who, since he signed for us, has collected at least £100,000 per week and played only 11 times for this club. yes he has played well when playing, but he hasn't played enough to justify those wages, let alone the £17million he cost. he was regularly in the papers, occasionally saying he felt bad for the Toon fans, and always saying that he was looking forward to playing in the world cup.

Then before the world cup he told sky that he'd been fit for the last 2 months!! i doubt that, but if he was why wasn't he playing for us, instead of collecting wages and resting so he'd be fit in time for the world cup? was he scared of getting another injury? Was he not allowed by Sven boring erection, as he was also not allowed to play in Shearer's testimonial?

Now I don't believe in karma, and without Owen our attack looks lightweight and unthreatening, but if he played for any other team, we'd think he deserved that sort of end to his World Cup after the way he finds it more important to be England's Michael Owen, at the expense of the club who paid so much for a striker who, so far has done little to prove that he was a good signing in my opinion.

England's Michael Owen played when unfit. Our Michael Owen mysteriously only played one sub appearance for us in the last two months when he was supposedly fit (despite having to have his screws extended- maybe he lied about being fit)

But maybe I'm just bitter

Neil Cranswick, Whitley Bay


Dear tf,

The fucking World Cup is shite – I hate it! I don’t know about anyone else but I gave up on the England v Sweden match after approximately 2 minutes. When “England’s” Michael Owen hit the turf I gave up watching and my head was elsewhere. I imagined 52,000 sat in SJP on a cold, wet November afternoon watching Shola plough a lone furrow up front and falling on his arse whilst “England’s” Michael Owen runs around a supermarket like a five year old, patting his arse pocket in ASDA’s Christmas TV commercials. Jesus Wept! What have Newcastle United done to deserve such shit luck? I have often been called a pessimist, but you know what? I fucking knew something was going to happen to Owen - £17m down the drain? If the news from the scan is bad and its serious ligament damage then we can probably expect to see him for the closing game of the forthcoming season – magic!

What grates even more is the fact that Liverpool look likely to get Bellamy for £6m. I know he was an odious little shit, but he’s played more than the kid with glass legs and has scored 17 goals in 26 starts for Rovers, the Scousers must be laughing their cocks off. Thanks Graeme Souness.

Combine Owen’s injury with the news that a bunch of Yanks want a stake in our club and its shaping up nicely to be a pretty shit summer for all things NUFC. Next up we can expect to see our glorious Chairman’s fat ugly puss in the media gannin’ absolutely fucking mental and telling anyone who’ll listen that he wants compo from the FA for Owens injury (which I would agree with). To the England match then: shit if you ask me and should England manage to negotiate a way past Ecuador on Sunday then I won’t be overly confident of us going any further. Crouch is mince – seriously, what has this kid got that Shola hasn’t? Beckham went missing in the second half, as did most of them and if it hadn’t been for the introduction of the Hub Cap Thieves captain, England would have lost the game. Sven’s master plan of taking 2 unfit strikers, a lanky piece of shit who couldn’t hit a cows arse with a banjo and some 17 year old kid whose got a tasty bird appears to be crashing in around his designer specs. The man is a charlatan in my opinion.

Sorry I can’t be any more positive folks. I’m gonna get back to dreaming about Shola and Luque up front for NUFC next season – gerrin!!!

John, Pelaw


Dear tf,

Fucking hell. That's next season over with, another £600 (and the rest) down the fucking toilet (there is a part of a foreign field that will forever be NUFC's 2006/07 season, well it certainly looks like it got laid to fucking rest in Germany). Christ it'll probably end up getting on for a fucking year since Owen last started a game for us. All this so England can lose in the quarter-finals. I hope fucking Equador win so it'll shut all the fuckers up going on about the fucking World Cup. Fuck there was even some cockney Liverpool supporting cunt on the radio today going on about how he's so glad Benitez didn't sign him, bet the cunt wasn't saying that at the time, fuck me so he reckons the only reason Rafa didn't want him was coz he knew the Spurs goalie would knack Owen's foot and he'd slip on the fucking pitch (what's wrong with boots these days anyway?). Fucking England. Also now that we've got £17m worth of player fucked will this change the minds of these yanks?

Glenn


Dear tf,

Without a fully fit Owen, as our current squad stands, means were f-cked. Who is going to provide the threat up front? Will he be the same player again?

We have swapped one good crock (Woodgate) for another...is this some kind of payback for Fat Freddie’s "buyer beware" shit.

Who is looking after these players conditioning ......Frankenstein (if he is could he possibly please put a defensive brain in Bramble, "Abby" has already been used in Carr). I'm angry at Sven for picking him despite his lack of first team football prior to June, I'm angry at Owen for not giving the NUFC supporters preference over his own misguided ambitions and I'm angry that none of this World Cup shit really matters anyway.

Mark Walsh.


Dear tf,

Just one small question – if Shepherd got more compensation from the FA for Owen being fucked, how exactly does that help Glenn Roeder buy a top-class striker to start the season? And by top-class I don’t mean a half-fit, half-interested Fat Eddie Murphy who wasn’t good enough for The Beasts last season, who finished well below us. Last season we signed two strikers; Luque and Owen. One of them isn’t interested and the other is a crock, probably finished now. Who signs the fucking cheques at NUFC?

John, Blyth.


Dear tf,

Absolutely brilliant fanzine and web-site lads – love it and it’s totally essential to cut through the bullshit that surrounds NUFC. Please keep up the great work and never stop telling it like it is.

Here’s my point. Remember when Roeder put the block on Craig Moore joining an Australian training camp in Holland ahead of the World Cup? I think it was back in March. Roeder stated Moore wouldn’t be allowed to go to the World Cup as he had been injured all season and wouldn’t be released for international duty. We all thought that was fair enough didn’t we? Moore than got out the sick room and put in some decent performances for NUFC.

Anyone care to explain to me why NUFC didn’t do the same with England’s Michael Owen?

Owen has stated himself that he was fit for two months before the end of the season but never played for the club that was paying his wages despite us desperately needing him to push us into a European qualifying place. We could have done with him against the Mackems when we were forced to start with Dyer up front alongside Shearer. Now we’re hearing England’s Michael Owen talk about the brilliant Newcastle fans. Fucking mugs more like it. More patronising bullshit from NUFC!

The club is a fucking joke, man!

Dave Donnelly, Hexham


Dear tf,

In reply to Big Duke (www.true-faith.co.uk - everybody’s talkin’ – 19/Jun/06). Am I missing something here? When did you start getting points for pretty football. So Fuck if England have played poorly - we have got the results. Football is about results. There is no rule that states it is less points for a dodgy performance. As I write this the knockout stages have started and we have just beaten Ecuador. It wasn’t the greatest performance at all but who gives a shit.

Win 1-0 or 5-0 in knockout football and the outcome is the same - you go through to the next round. And the performances so far were enough to top the group and take us to the quarter finals. Why not , (and this may seem like a novel idea but give it a go) try and put your energy into getting behind the team instead of moaning. would you rather we had played superb and gone out in the group stage.

As for the fans singing "football's coming home" if the scenes at euro 96 of a packed Wembley singing their hearts outs, united in one common cause, scenes being replicated in Germany, are a bad thing then there is something seriously wrong with you mate.

As for missing the hooligans, if that is a serious comment then it is you that needs to fuck right off my friend. The scenes of hooliganism, which blighted the game for years are, on the whole, not repeated now and thank fuck they aren't. They dragged the game i love, and have loved all my life (i am 27 now) into the gutter and resulted in the decent fans being branded scum. It is people like you, who ruin the game. Please do not dare call yourself a fan cos you are not fit to call yourself that. You are someone who attaches himself to football for a different cause. At least the Three Lions Singers have gone to Germany for the football.

If you go to SJP please stay away next from now on, we don't need scum like you there.

Andy L, Durham

Ed: Let’s have a heated debate!