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Fell down a YouTube rabbit hole and stumbled on this 1989 documentary #NewcastleDisunited presented by journalist (and #NUFC fan) David Taylor. It was produced by Ray Stubbs.
It's deserving of a thread:
Fell down a YouTube rabbit hole and stumbled on this 1989 documentary #NewcastleDisunited presented by journalist (and #NUFC fan) David Taylor. It was produced by Ray Stubbs.
It's deserving of a thread:
The documentary covers John Hall's attempt to take over the club. Taylor bounces between the Hall camp, and then club chairman Gordon McKeag who was clinging to #NUFC after succeeding his dad on the board and finding himself running the club (badly)
Some of the footage is superb
Some of the footage is superb
Some general shots of a typical SJP during a 1988-89 matchday, with @WeAreTheFSA founder Rogan Taylor interviewed over a pint in the @theberrypub. He laments football's poor customer relations, and predicts "those days are over"... (sigh)
#NewcastleDisunited
#NewcastleDisunited
Fantastic dressing room and pitch side footage here: Jim Smith geeing up Kenny Sansom, Mirandinha calling it a "must win" game, while John Hall listens on the radio.
#NewcastleDisunited
#NewcastleDisunited
Rogan Taylor in @theberrypub again, talking about how the 1989 #NUFCTakeover is unique because at the heart of it is "supporter enfranchisement". What goes around comes around, eh?
#NewcastleDisunited
#NewcastleDisunited
Dreamy shot of Keegan strolling up the tunnel for his final game, plus Beardsley's incredible goal in the same match. Beardsley then explains he was never offered a deal to stay as the club needed cash to bring the West Stand up to scratch
#NewcastleDisunited
#NewcastleDisunited
An interview with incumbent Chairman Gordon McKeag. He must be the only person born in Whickham to sound like that. He lost me at "I played rugby for 25 years".
#NewcastleDisunited
#NewcastleDisunited
A bit on Gazza featuring the game at Plough Lane where Vinnie Jones grabs his knackers. Watch for the cheeky megs Gazza puts on him!
Followed by an interview with @ChronicleNUFC's John Gibson "You don't build successful sides by letting your best players go"
#NewcastleDisunited
Followed by an interview with @ChronicleNUFC's John Gibson "You don't build successful sides by letting your best players go"
#NewcastleDisunited
The first ever Newcastle Fans TV?
"With the resources of that club, we shouldn't be in that position" โย sound familiar?
#NewcastleDisunited
"With the resources of that club, we shouldn't be in that position" โย sound familiar?
#NewcastleDisunited
Enter John Hall, the coal miner's son who had made ยฃ50m gambling on the property market.
"I don't want to own the football club, I want to give the people a share in the club"*
*He made an estimated ยฃ88m from the club between 1992 and 2007
"I don't want to own the football club, I want to give the people a share in the club"*
*He made an estimated ยฃ88m from the club between 1992 and 2007
"Football Directors are seldom popular, but at Newcastle, things were getting out of hand."
#NewcastleDisunited
#NewcastleDisunited
Here's John Hall's staff contacting share holders in an attempt to buy enough to wrestle control of the club from McKeag.
#NewcastleDisunited
#NewcastleDisunited
The players largely stayed quiet over the takeover, but Mirandinha spoke out via a translator. "They [the players] don't speak up because they are frightened"
He was back at Palmeiras within a couple of months.
#NewcastleDisunited
He was back at Palmeiras within a couple of months.
#NewcastleDisunited
Gordon McKeag "soldiering on", avoiding being spat at on the way from his car to the stadium.
Jim Smith is unveiled before the match and his assistant Bobby Saxton makes it clear the new tactics don't involve any short balls
#NewcastleDisunited
Jim Smith is unveiled before the match and his assistant Bobby Saxton makes it clear the new tactics don't involve any short balls
#NewcastleDisunited
McKeag's gardening interrupted by a journalist.
"I can't say I appreciate being telephoned on a fine Sunday afternoon, we get few enough of them and I'm busy in the garden"
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"I can't say I appreciate being telephoned on a fine Sunday afternoon, we get few enough of them and I'm busy in the garden"
#NewcastleDisunited
A 0-0 draw seals almost certain relegation. Some incredibly grim shots of a 1989 SJP close out the documentary.
"A few days after the Luton match, Tyneside's former idols: Waddle, Beardsley and Gascoigne, combine to score four of England's five goals in a World Cup qualifier"
"A few days after the Luton match, Tyneside's former idols: Waddle, Beardsley and Gascoigne, combine to score four of England's five goals in a World Cup qualifier"
A brilliant documentary by David Taylor which shows takeovers are rarely straightforward, especially where #NUFC are concerned.
David mentions #NewcastleDisunited in a great interview @paulbrownUK did with him for @blzzrd. Well worth a read:
https://www.theblizzard.co.uk/article/out-hotbed
David mentions #NewcastleDisunited in a great interview @paulbrownUK did with him for @blzzrd. Well worth a read:
https://www.theblizzard.co.uk/article/out-hotbed
Lastly, thereโs a fantastic three-page spread, by @NUFC_1980_1994 in the latest issue of @tfNUFC magazine, all about this four year battle for control.
A must read.
#NewcastleDisunited
A must read.
#NewcastleDisunited
