(14 Nov 2014, 10:57 pm)marxistafozzski wrote Oh yeah...

The Oldest Game in International Football is back next week for only the 5th time since 1996...

Scotland v England at Celtic Park

(14 Nov 2014, 11:00 pm)aureolin wrote Should be an occasion. One of the only international matches I look forward to with England.

(14 Nov 2014, 11:05 pm)marxistafozzski wrote Yeah, me too, some members here won't remember the last competitive game we played against them...

The Euro 2000 Qualifying Play-Offs, won 2-1 on aggregate, Paul Scholes scored 2 at Hampden and Don Hutchison scored at Wembley...

Nothing beats 1996 though, when Gazza made c**ts of Colin Hendry and Andy Goram in a way only Gazza could do

(14 Nov 2014, 11:22 pm)aureolin wrote And a year later, we tore Germany a new backside, and on foreign soil too. What a night that was.

(14 Nov 2014, 11:29 pm)marxistafozzski wrote Oh hell yes...I have never seen England play that good...I remember John Motsons commentary something like

DONT MENTION THE SCORE...ITS GERMANY 1 ENGLAND 5

(21 Nov 2014, 3:47 pm)Tom wrote Should be a good weekend of football!
What's everyones score prediction?

(21 Nov 2014, 8:59 pm)mb134 wrote Chelsea 2-0 West Brom 
Everton 1-1 West Ham 
Leicester 2-1 Sunderland
Man City 3-1 Swansea
Newcastle 1-1 QPR
Stoke 0-0 Burnley
Arsenal 2-1 Man Utd

Crystal Palace 1-0 Liverpool
Hull 1-0 Tottenham

Aston Villa 0-2 Southampton

Don't want to predict that we'll beat QPR, as I know if I do we wont 

(21 Nov 2014, 9:42 pm)Tom wrote I think it will be:

Chelsea 3-1 WBA
Everton 1-2 West Ham
Leicester 1-0 Sunderland
Man City 4-0 Swansea
Newcastle 2-2 QPR
Stoke 0-1 Burnley
Arsenal 2-1 Man Utd

Crystal Palace 1-0 Liverpool
Hull 2-3 Spurs

Aston Villa 0-2 Southampton

(23 Nov 2014, 5:55 pm)Tom wrote Coincidence today - Spurs' last away fixture was at Aston Villa, where they were 1-0 up early on. After half time, Aston Villa have a player sent off for fighting, and Spurs win.
Same thing has happened today...

(23 Nov 2014, 6:16 pm)mb134 wrote From what I heard about Benteke's sending off in the Villa game, and Ramirez's today, it seems they were both caused by winding up from some of the Spurs team. If this is true, I don't like it at all. Despise Spurs, always will do, their fans seem to think they have a divine right to be challenging for the title every season...

5. Greeted like a returning hero as he took his place among the Toon fans at Coventry City in our first Premiership away game - despite having been transferred by Newcastle just weeks before.
4. Celebrating with Toon fans on the touchline at Ayresome Park in a cup game - then pushing those fans back into the stand to keep them from the clutches of the rapidly-approaching Cleveland Constabulary.
3. Three first half goals (and a song, "David, David Kelly - scored a hat trick on the telly...") on what proved to be his final NUFC appearance - against former club Leicester City at SJP.
That in itself made the moment extra sweet for Kelly - having been forced to seek shelter in the away section at Filbert Street 12 months previously after City fans invaded the pitch and tried to set about him at the end of our game.
 
2. Applauded on to the field when appearing as a substitute against Newcastle at SJP in April 1997  - despite wearing the red and white shirt of you know who.....
1. There really can be only one winner:  to anyone who didn't guess this, you either weren't born, were being held hostage somewhere or are a bona-fide JCL.*

Saturday April 25th 1992 and United were all aboard the Oblivion Express, heading for Division Three at full speed.
Portsmouth were the visitors to SJP in a game of colossal importance. 0-0 going into the dying minutes, Kelly took Quinn's knockdown to bury the ball into the Gallowgate goal. Cue absolute bedlam.
We won 1-0, went on to win at Leicester the next week and avoided the drop.