Rockcliffe Files

@seaned75 Visited the Nou Camp in 1982 when I was out there on a school football trip. I can confirm it’s HUGE. Also played on SJP once which also felt huge but not as huge ….

Anyone know the size of the Barca pitch compared to ours? Everyone seems to think it’s massive. It does look big #NUFC

@Kavo1890 I’m talking about my Irish mates, I had several. They all drank lager, and not one of them set foot in the Irish centre here. It was also 37 years ago. Nice chatting.

@RockcliffeFiles “They perhaps drank Guinness for the day instead of lager” 😂 Fuck me. Thank God for such a keen eyed chronicler of the Irish in England.

When I was at Uni (89/92) St Patrick’s Day wasn’t a thing, even the Irish lads didn’t really celebrate, they perhaps drank Guinness for the day instead of lager. Another celebration invented by corporates to rinse you of your money. There were street parties jn Jesmond yesterday!

@Jim_Sonweed @FishandChipsNE I’m of an age where I’ve become sensitive to obscene amounts of piss, puke, litter and discarded kebab meat. The much younger me would have dressed up all Irish and got hammered. And I’d have probably pissed and puked in the street …

@FishandChipsNE @RockcliffeFiles lol I know, I wasn’t really directing that at you more to the folk who are somehow pissed off about it

@seaned75 @Frank_Connolly_ @2605NI I’m being eviscerated by Irish lads who think I’m dissing SPD and Ireland. I like Irish people, I like Ireland, I like SPD, I just don’t particularly get why English people in Newcastle upon Tyne have adopted it so fanatically, our student areas were bouncing yesterday.

@Frank_Connolly_ @RockcliffeFiles @2605NI We weren’t discussing Ireland. Cool fact though

@MrBumBlaster I can unequivocally confirm it wasn’t a thing in England between 1989 and 92. Unless you were Irish or of Irish descent. I’d know, I was a proper piss can and I’d have jumped upon the bandwagon and worn a big hat and a green Guinness t-shirt

@RockcliffeFiles Kind of. Mostly Scottish though down south which is where the uni was.

@zanzare96 @seaned75 @2605NI I think SPD is a joyous thing, when confined to Ireland or Irish ex pats, less of a fan of posh English students puking in front of me at 1pm, but hey ho, it’s a free country

@seaned75 @RockcliffeFiles @2605NI Considering GB was at war with the Irish in the 90s, you'd see why it was never fully celebrated over yonder

@MrBumBlaster In New Zealand? Doesn’t NZ have a lot of Irish ex pats? Which largely explains it. Only a small percentage of the people celebrating in Newcastle yesterday were Irish …

@RockcliffeFiles I was at uni in nz in 93 and it was massive then.

@Kavo1890 I’m talking about Newcastle in the North East of England you plum, not fucking Ireland.

@RockcliffeFiles Fucking hell 🤦

@cookedurass Solid tweeting.

@RockcliffeFiles Lot of words to say you'd no mates

@seaned75 @2605NI Halloween was invented by a clever sod at Tesco

@RockcliffeFiles @2605NI Started around late 90’s i think with the whole Celtic Tiger and Ireland becoming cool combined with some genius marketing from Guinness. It’s next level now though like Halloween which is now a very americanised commercial thing.

@alanrgibson Did the Rock make a thing of it? I was in the LLR, not as much as a green beer mat. Although I’ve just realised I inadvertently wore a green sweatshirt … doh. Omni was mega.

@RockcliffeFiles Someone in a green polo shirt was drinking Guinness in the rock yesterday. Crazy times.

@jonnypunk1965 Can confirm I would.

@2605NI I’ll die on the hill that says Tesco invented Halloween. I know a few communities did celebrate but 99% of the country had a bonfire and made a Guy and collected money for fireworks. We imported Halloween from the US as Tesco smelt money!

@RockcliffeFiles This! Agree.

@FishandChipsNE Yeah, Newcastle, I did Politics. I collected my car from Kwik Fit in Jesmond at 430 yesterday and virtually every student house was having a yard or garden SPD party. A sea of green.

@RockcliffeFiles Was that up here? I was in Leeds 04-08 and agree it was never a thing but come 2015 while working at a uni here it was absolutely insane. I was led to believe was always massive at Northumbria due to high volumes of Irish students?

@jonnypunk1965 Dive in mate, although they are a fast track gateway to T2 …

@RockcliffeFiles 👀

Significantly more moreish than crack. Dangerously so. Addictive. So good.

@BenThatchers I’d never heard of them until I started a new project and the young lass I’m sat next to offered me one, I’ve been addicted ever since. Off to see my dealer for a reup when I get off this train

@RockcliffeFiles Absolutely ridiculous aren’t they? The kids have started hiding them from me now.

@rwall83060758 @seaned75 Ha ha ha

@RockcliffeFiles @seaned75 The prematch huddle Chelsea 12 th man

James does that anywhere else on the pitch, it’s a foul, and not one single Chelsea fan would seek to debate it as it’s so obviously a foul. It’s a mad game.