Graeme Souness drove me to Real Madrid (and Getafe) from Newcastle United nufc
On February 19th 2006, Getafe played at home to local rivals Atletico Madrid, why was I there and not at the Newcastle United cup game vs Southampton in the FA Cup that weekend? Well let me enlighten youse.Well not yours truly, once I found out our ex-manager and perennial gobsh.te Graeme Souness was on.
Other folk on here have covered his tenure on Tyneside much more eloquently than me, but to say I was getting a tad pi..ed off, it all came to a head in April 2005. With us losing 4-1 to both Sporting Lisbon andin the space of four days. Having went to both games and it costing up to a grand, I was sick of his gubbins.
Check the dates, Feb 18th 2006 is FA Cup fifth round weekend, surely Graeme Souness will have us out the cup by then. Flights, hotel and match tickets all sorted and we’re at Toon International on Feb 18th for flight to Madrid via Heathrow. Now folks, please remember these two phrases for later on…functioning alcoholic and fussy eater.
Gets back to a very hungry Nigel and Monty goes, where the f.ck is The Nigel’s bait, as I offer up four pints as refreshments. Wouldn’t have the ham sandwich I got him, so Monty takes one of the pints out of the four pints holder and necks it in one..that then went down in folklore as the spite pint.
So, as we’re deciding what to do for the rest of the day, we find out Atletico are playing at Getafe, which is about a 45 min train ride from Madrid Central. Champion. Monty decided to go and get us some more refreshments and next thing I look up to my right, to see about 100 Getafe ultras enter the away end and bang, it’s right off, as they completely clear the away end of about 3,000 Atletico fans.
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