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The very first live Premier League Newcastle United match of the season for us.
Albeit beinged in the expected home fans end at Craven Cottage.
I get up early to a London pea souper. By midday the mist is beginning to raise and we are on the train to Putney.
It is then a walk throughout Putney Bridge to Archbishop’s Park. It is on this walk over the bridge where we see our very first compromise headscarf. Oh dear.
After a couple of beers with our Fulham pals it is off to Craven Cottage which is wedged in between the river and streets of gorgeous Victorian real estate. A timeless example of a football club from a various period and hemmed in from that time.
Through the gates at the back of the Cottage and after that we remain in our seats in row ZZ, the back row to be exact.
Picture by Greg McPeake through The Mag
I have actually remained in the Putney end often times however on this event there seems less black and white stripes on program than formerly. Substantially there is a lot of half and half headscarfs. A terrible production which has a crest with the words Geordie Boys inside it.
We stand throughout the minute’s silence for Remembrance Day and a boy and his partner take their seats in the row in front of us talking loudly, cellphones in hands. A lady reverses and informs them to “stop talking and reveal some regard.”
We begin the video game vibrantly however it develops into another video game like Palace. The emphasize is the Dan Burn objective which we commemorate however are totally baffled at it being prohibited as we have actually most likely got the worst seats in your house to make any reasoned judgement.
Twenty minutes into the video game and groups of individuals begin leaving their seats, some using compromise. This cycle goes on throughout the video game, little groups moving in and out. Other viewers stand and begin taping with their phones, or taking selfies, obstructing our line of vision as the video game is occurring.
At this minute I understand now why my Chelsea mates are so vexed, as this is what they have actually explained to me, however even worse for them as it is occurring in their primary end, the Matthew Harding stand.
Not surprising that they are mad. I was snapping and we remained in the Fulham end.
2nd half we begin brilliantly and I am enthusiastic for another Palace-like after the break efficiency.
Before the video game my child had actually stated “I am going home if Jacob Murphy begins”, so down on the winger he is.
A huge Geordie lad has actually found us and the nearby traveler seat that has actually been abandoned, he joins us. We have the ideal view of the Murphy objective and we commemorate like we remained in the Gallowgate End.
3 minutes later on and you are advised of what it is to be a Newcastle United fan.
The trudge through the park back to Putney station, me and my lad dispute how bad the referee was and the factors for it.
Newcastle United match of the Premier League season however ideally not the last.
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