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I was born here in the States in Greenville,
SC, and locked onto football when I was six. I was fortunate enough to
have a former Gunner, Stewart Gamble, start the first football club in
my town. From then on, it has been love at first sight with the game. I
played in college at Carson-Newman, an NCAA Division II powerhouse, in
Jefferson City, TN, where I played every position on the pitch at one
point or another (including keeper) and met my wife, JoAnna (Harper
will confirm that Mrs. Beddingfield is a woman not to be slighted in
any form or fashion). When I graduated in 1992, I started my career
straightaway in football management coaching the women's team there,
and assisted with the men's side as well.
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I first went to St. James' Park around 1986. For the life of me I can't
remember the opposition but I think it may have been Aston Villa. Willie
McFaul was in charge. As I was living in London at the time and had a
season ticket at Fulham, I didn't realise that this particular game was
going to be a life-changing event!
More Born and raised in North Shields. Another
graduate of the King Edward Junior School Academy worldbeaters. Played
for Linskill High, and Tyne Boys Club (member of the Tyne Ajax team in
the 70's). My first sight of the 'Lads at St. James' was Newcastle v
Burnley (Spider Morgan was the star that day).I was passed by my Dad
(who was on the books at Newcastle during the War) over the heads at
the Leazes End to sit pitch-side.
More Born just outside Newcastle, I was raised in
a Soccer mad household. My Grandfather, Grandmother and Father were all
season ticket holders and it was four day before my 8th birthday, March
15th 1986 that I was given a ticket and allowed to join in the match
day ritual. This was the best day of my life, my first visit to St
James’ Park sitting in the old west stand and watching Newcastle
vs. Ipswich Town, I don’t remember too much just that it was
loud, we won and I smiled all the way home with my ears ringing. Since
that day I was in love with Newcastle United and I always will be.
More I am born in NYC but have been a Geordie fan
since I was 11. Lots of reason why. Huge Boston Red Sox fan as well.
The similarities with the two clubs and the fan base is amazing.
Finally got to SJP in 2003 getting to see Midddlesbrough really was a
treat. Been to most of the stadiums in the EPL and really nothing like
going to a Newcastle game at home.
More I grew up in Bill Quay (Gateshead) and went
to Heworth Grange Comprehensive in Felling. Chris Waddle went to our
school and I played footie with him every Sunday morning when he was 14
or 15.
Saw my first game vs Chelsea when I was eleven. I was at the Leazes end which cost 20 pence (1971) and I remember running on the pitch at the end of the game. In those days, it was all SuperMac, Terry Mac, John Tudor (Hallelulah) and Terry Hibbit (on the wing). More I was raised in Gateshead (Bensham area to
be exact) and brought up in the 'school of hard-knocks' like most
Geordies. I've followed Newcastle since my Dad took me to my first game
at St James Park in 1974. A good day, SuperMac scored, we won 3-2 and I
was hooked.
More I have been a Newcastle fan since 1996. It
was about this time that English football started being shown somewhat
regularly in the U.S. and I just happened to be able to see a couple of
Newcastle games and really enjoyed watching them play and the style
they played. The more I saw Newcastle, the more I became a fan. Even
though I was new to following the Premiership, and for that matter, new
to football since about 1993. I am lucky enough to have gotten to see
the team play in person when they came to the U.S. in 2000. I saw them
play in Columbus against the Crew and couldn't believe my luck to get
to meet the team after the game!
More Both sets of my grandparents were from the
Wallsend-Willington Quay area. I attended the Richardson Dees School in
Wallsend. I lived on Holly Avenue next to the railway line until Mr.
Hitler took care of Holly Avenue and we moved to Chester-le-Street. In
my family there really wasn’t any choice or conscious thought
about supporting any other team but Newcastle. Like many lads I was one
of the pass-over-the-heads, sit-on-the-wall on the Leazes side at St
James’ Park. I first saw the Toon play in 1939 and watched them
right through the war.
More John Little
Born and raised in the
sunny little village of Cullercoats, just a spit away from Whitley Bay and
worked in the "yards" on the banks of the Tyne. I remember standing in the
Leazers end watching Big Wynn Davies and "Pop" Robson and the like in the hard
fought days of the 60's and 70's. Right through the Bill
McGarry -Richard Dennis - Gordon Lee days up until the Messiah arrived and
life was good....Left the toon around the time KK left to make my fortune "Down
south" but instead ended up in little old Oregon...
Toon till I
die
Born in Buffalo, NY and grew up watching the
Toon on theater size screens in arenas through Canada and NY. Still
wish SuperMac was a member of my family. Being from Buffalo (A true
sports town), I related right away to Newcastle's fans being loyal to
the team no matter what. I have every jersey won by the Toon since the
70s (yes, even the ugly orange 3rd jersey from the late 70s). Now an
Ameobi fan and can't wait for him to lead England to its next World
Cup.
More Name Shaun Nicholson, DOB 22nd June 1967, born at St Mary’s Maternity Hospital, Jesmond, well within earshot of the City bells so therefore a true Geordie. Brought up in Cramlington and lived in that little town (although not so little anymore) until May 1999 when I left England for the USA. Played footie at various levels until I badly broke my shoulder at around 22 or 23 years old. I was never brilliant but I was very fast and tricky and scored a lot of goals for all the teams I played for. I started playing again when I got to the USA and still play now in an over 35’s pick-up league in MD. I just can’t get football or the Toon out of my blood. More Left school in the 80's and for several years spent my every
spare penny following the Toon around the country. I was there at home and away
most games and one season managed to do all the games. I was on the pitch and
Huddersfield I was in the Melee in the coach park and surrounding slums of Moss
Side. I saw the good and the bad, slept in the car in Swansea , stayed over in
Blackpool after Liverpool away and owned a silver away top which I thought I
looked dead good in but in retrospect I resembled a dirigible. I stood in the
flag corner and almost got crushed to death many a time as the steam rose from
the people relieving themselves and the smell from the brewery filled the air.
Did I love it? Yes, I did.
More Born in High Howdon, 1943. Schooled @ Addison Potter Junior & Stephenson Memorial (Stivvies) Secondary Modern. Harry Spall is a North Shields lad who burst
onto the world football scene in the late 40's as an internationally
acclaimed goalkeeper at King Edward Junior School, North Shields. His
career then took a nosedive as his grammar school in Newcastle only
played rugby. This was a pity because his father had played for British
Army teams in the First World War, Durham University, and then helped
to manage Newcastle City Boys team in the 30's. But that didn't stop
them from watching the Magpies at St James' Park. More A Geordie by association only I'm afraid. My
mother was born in Burnopfield and my father in Consett so critically
speaking neither of them are Geordies and in fact surrounded by the
hated Mackems. My cousin, dare I say it....is a Sunderland fan, spit,
what a bitter taste I have after that dirty word. My parents emigrated
to Yorkshire and that's where your's truly comes in. I'm a hybrid
Yorkshireman who worships the Toon! I currently live in North Carolina
and my two sons, both avid Toon fans, living in Chicago. They both go
to an Irish bar every Saturday/Sunday to watch the games.
More I grew up in a small town in Nevada where baseball was king, gridiron football was right behind, and soccer was something you did for a week in Phys. Ed. I didn’t really discover real football until the last decade. I got a new sports package on my cable and turned on Fox Sports World. As fate would have it, they were televising a Toon match. I think it was against Blackburn. I know that Alan Shearer was burning up the pitch... More Born in Warrington in the early eighties, my
parents moved up to Newcastle when I was a few years old. Although I
soon picked up the Geordie accent there must have been some Lancashire
still in me as my early years were spent supporting Manchester United -
mainly because my grandma would let me stay up and watch their European
games on TV!
More Through no fault of mine, I was born in
Germany as an army brat in ’63. Parents are fiercly proud to be
Geordies having been born and bred in Newcastle and have made me the
same way. The end of my Fatha’s army life sent us back to Low
Fell, Gateshead and the life of Black and White again – a place
to call home at last – and in God’s county.
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My name is Jesse Zamudio and I live the Los Angeles
area. I've long been a casual football fan but after
attending three World Cup matches in Germany last June I've
been hopelessly hooked.
More GEORDIES HERE, GEORDIES THERE, GEORDIES AAL OWER THE WORLD SUPPORTIN' THE TOON.
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