'Black & White Daft.'
Service Trains, Football Specials, Transits & Furniture Vans.
Following Newcastle United in the 1980’s.
This superb new book is due to be published in September 2009 by jLj publishing.
Lifelong Newcastle United fan Mick Edmondson has been collecting anecdotes and memories from hundreds of fans who followed Newcastle United in the 1980's. He has collected over 1,000 tales between July 1979 and May 1990. Along with his own favourite memories and thousands of facts, this story gives an amazing insight to what it was like to actually follow one of footballs biggest and famous clubs in a very important and interesting period in their history. If you were there it will bring back plenty of memories and maybe answer a lot of questions you may have. If you were too young then it will help to educate you about what it was like in the days of the terraces, piling into the back of Transit vans or getting on the Football specials. Football violence was at its worst; Newcastle had great players such as Keegan, Beardsley & Waddle. Gazza, Goddard, Quinn, McGhee, McDermott, Varadi and the first ever Brazilian to play in the Uk – Mirandinha. But we also had the likes of Harford, Reilly, Shinton, Brown, Davies, Pingel, Heard, Megson, Hardwick, Clarke, Fereday, Askew, Sweeney, Bradshaw, Johnson, Hedworth & Stewart………….
The memories come flooding back;
(PUBS) - DARNELL, MAGPIE CLUB, PORTLAND, CANNY LAD, FARMERS REST, GEORGE & THE DRAGON, PINEAPPLE, ADELAIDE, DOBSONS, SGT PEPPERS (WHISTLESTOP), CORDWAINERS, BURTON, LOWTHER, DARN CROOK, HODGSON ARMS, BOULEVARD, HAYMARKET, BRAMHS & LIST, ELDON, PINEAPPLE, WATERLOO, CITY TAVERN ETC
(CLUBS) - REFLECTIONS (BENTLEYS), MADISONS, TUXEDO JUNCTION, JULIES, MAYFAIR, TUXEDO PRINCESS (BOAT), STAGE DOOR, WHEELERS, ETC
(OPPOSITION) - SHREWSBURY, CAMBRIDGE, OLDHAM, ROTHERHAM, PRESTON, BURY, BARNSLEY, WREXHAM, CARLISLE, LEICESTER, QPR, MILLWALL, GRIMSBY, BRISTOL ROVERS, PORT VALE, OREINT, WATFORD, NOTTS COUNTY, BURNLEY, LUTON, SWANSEA, CARDIFF, BORO, LEEDS, SHEFF WED, WIMBLEDON, OXFORD.
(TRAVEL) - TRANSIT VANS, FURNITURE LORRIES, FOOTBALL SPECIALS, SERVICE TRAINS. LUTON VANS, MAGPIE TRAVEL, SUPPORTERS CLUB, HITCH HIKING, OLD RUSTY CARS, NATIONAL EXPRESS, CLIPPER ETC.
(GROUNDS) – AYRESOME PARK, BASEBALL GROUND, FILBERT STREET, ROKER PARK, MAINE ROAD, HIGHBURY, PLOUGH LANE, HIGHFIELD ROAD, BURNDEN PARK, BOUNDARY PARK, EASTVILLE, GAY MEADOW, GOLDSTONE GROUND, VICTORIA GROUND, DEN, ELLAND ROAD, ETC
(1980's ST JAMES' PARK) - BENCHES, E.WING, SCOREBOARD, CORNER, TERRACES, FENCES, GALLOWGATE, OLD WEST STAND.
(FASHIONS) - DONKEY JACKETS, FLYING JACKETS, CASUALS, DRESSERS, SKINHEADS, HIPPIES, SCARVES, PATCH BADGES, CAPS, KILTS, BLACK N WHITE TARTAN, SPORTS GEAR, FARAHS, JAEGER, LA COSTE, FILA, ADIDAS-FOREST HILLS, TRIM TRAB, STAN SMITH, DIADORA, BENETTON, SERGIO TACCHINI, ELLESSE, CECIL GEE, DOC MARTINS, DEALERS, RIDERS, ETC ,
(VIOLENCE) – PITCH INVASIONS, NME, SOCCER CASUALS, GEORDIE AGGRO, POLICE DOGS, ESCORTS, SCRUBS, BATH LANE, FENCES, BLACK MARIA VANS, PETROL BOMBS ETC.
If anybody out there has any anecdotes or memories they would like to be considered for print then please don't hesitate to email me on madmickdj@talktalk.net no later than July 30th 2009. They must be Newcastle related and be between July 1979 and May 1990. I look forward to them. Good luck. Also looking for any photos from this period.
Service Trains, Football Specials, Transits & Furniture Vans.
Following Newcastle United in the 1980’s.
This superb new book is due to be published in September 2009 by jLj publishing.
Lifelong Newcastle United fan Mick Edmondson has been collecting anecdotes and memories from hundreds of fans who followed Newcastle United in the 1980's. He has collected over 1,000 tales between July 1979 and May 1990. Along with his own favourite memories and thousands of facts, this story gives an amazing insight to what it was like to actually follow one of footballs biggest and famous clubs in a very important and interesting period in their history. If you were there it will bring back plenty of memories and maybe answer a lot of questions you may have. If you were too young then it will help to educate you about what it was like in the days of the terraces, piling into the back of Transit vans or getting on the Football specials. Football violence was at its worst; Newcastle had great players such as Keegan, Beardsley & Waddle. Gazza, Goddard, Quinn, McGhee, McDermott, Varadi and the first ever Brazilian to play in the Uk – Mirandinha. But we also had the likes of Harford, Reilly, Shinton, Brown, Davies, Pingel, Heard, Megson, Hardwick, Clarke, Fereday, Askew, Sweeney, Bradshaw, Johnson, Hedworth & Stewart………….
The memories come flooding back;
(PUBS) - DARNELL, MAGPIE CLUB, PORTLAND, CANNY LAD, FARMERS REST, GEORGE & THE DRAGON, PINEAPPLE, ADELAIDE, DOBSONS, SGT PEPPERS (WHISTLESTOP), CORDWAINERS, BURTON, LOWTHER, DARN CROOK, HODGSON ARMS, BOULEVARD, HAYMARKET, BRAMHS & LIST, ELDON, PINEAPPLE, WATERLOO, CITY TAVERN ETC
(CLUBS) - REFLECTIONS (BENTLEYS), MADISONS, TUXEDO JUNCTION, JULIES, MAYFAIR, TUXEDO PRINCESS (BOAT), STAGE DOOR, WHEELERS, ETC
(OPPOSITION) - SHREWSBURY, CAMBRIDGE, OLDHAM, ROTHERHAM, PRESTON, BURY, BARNSLEY, WREXHAM, CARLISLE, LEICESTER, QPR, MILLWALL, GRIMSBY, BRISTOL ROVERS, PORT VALE, OREINT, WATFORD, NOTTS COUNTY, BURNLEY, LUTON, SWANSEA, CARDIFF, BORO, LEEDS, SHEFF WED, WIMBLEDON, OXFORD.
(TRAVEL) - TRANSIT VANS, FURNITURE LORRIES, FOOTBALL SPECIALS, SERVICE TRAINS. LUTON VANS, MAGPIE TRAVEL, SUPPORTERS CLUB, HITCH HIKING, OLD RUSTY CARS, NATIONAL EXPRESS, CLIPPER ETC.
(GROUNDS) – AYRESOME PARK, BASEBALL GROUND, FILBERT STREET, ROKER PARK, MAINE ROAD, HIGHBURY, PLOUGH LANE, HIGHFIELD ROAD, BURNDEN PARK, BOUNDARY PARK, EASTVILLE, GAY MEADOW, GOLDSTONE GROUND, VICTORIA GROUND, DEN, ELLAND ROAD, ETC
(1980's ST JAMES' PARK) - BENCHES, E.WING, SCOREBOARD, CORNER, TERRACES, FENCES, GALLOWGATE, OLD WEST STAND.
(FASHIONS) - DONKEY JACKETS, FLYING JACKETS, CASUALS, DRESSERS, SKINHEADS, HIPPIES, SCARVES, PATCH BADGES, CAPS, KILTS, BLACK N WHITE TARTAN, SPORTS GEAR, FARAHS, JAEGER, LA COSTE, FILA, ADIDAS-FOREST HILLS, TRIM TRAB, STAN SMITH, DIADORA, BENETTON, SERGIO TACCHINI, ELLESSE, CECIL GEE, DOC MARTINS, DEALERS, RIDERS, ETC ,
(VIOLENCE) – PITCH INVASIONS, NME, SOCCER CASUALS, GEORDIE AGGRO, POLICE DOGS, ESCORTS, SCRUBS, BATH LANE, FENCES, BLACK MARIA VANS, PETROL BOMBS ETC.
If anybody out there has any anecdotes or memories they would like to be considered for print then please don't hesitate to email me on madmickdj@talktalk.net no later than July 30th 2009. They must be Newcastle related and be between July 1979 and May 1990. I look forward to them. Good luck. Also looking for any photos from this period.
