When a transfer window closes, a door opens; Andy Carroll’s landmark £35m move from Newcastle to Liverpool, broke not only the transfer record for a British player, but also racial boundaries. The date of Wednesday 2 February shall ring through the ages, as this was the day when James Lawton of the Independent chose to describe the [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Newcastle’
Andy Carroll ushers in new era of racial equality as the first non-black player to be described as “raw”
Posted in News, tagged Andy Carroll, Darren Huckerby, Gary Doherty, James Lawton, Kenny Dalglish, Liverpool, Neil Shipperley, Newcastle on February 6, 2011 | 10 Comments »
What Alan Shearer Knows about…breaks
Posted in WASKAF, tagged alan hansen, alan shearer, Any excuse to mock the band Jet, Colin Hendry, Fernando Torres, Liverpool, MOTD, Newcastle, Ronaldo, Sami Hyppia, Steven Gerrard on March 15, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Like the resplendent Alan above*, I have been taking a break from the WASKAF posts. I’d love to pretend that this was because my Saturday nights have all been spent larging it in Faces with second-string England players, but in reality it has been post-traumatic stress. After about four WASKAFs, I realised that I could [...]
Kinnear looks to strengthen swearing squad
Posted in News, tagged Joe Kinnear, Newcastle, Robbie 'Cunting' Savage, Ruddy Hell, Schweinsteiger on January 6, 2009 | 1 Comment »
A Fisted Away January Transfer Window EXCLUSIVE: Joe Kinnear has been voicing his intent to add depth to Newcastle’s first team swearing squad since extending his contract at the end of November. Now it seems he has drawn up what the manger has excitedly described as a “bollockbusting” list of January targets writes Nigel Spickanspan. [...]
“Confidence is what you have before you understand the problem” – Woody Allen
Posted in WASKAF, tagged alan hansen, alan shearer, Blackburn, Newcastle, Samba, Unexpected Boyz n the Hood reference, Who will be the one true Alan? on September 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A troublesome showing from wor Alan this week. After a stellar season debut last week, he now seems distant, petulant and uncomfortable; it was like watching a man who was completely unsuited to media work, rather than the man who we know and love who is triumphantly unaware that he is completely unsuited to media [...]
