The 1992/93 season noticed the inauguration of the Premier League period, Newcastle United began it within the second division, which had simply modified its identify to the First Division.

This season is indisputably the perfect of my time supporting Toon and considered one of my finest journeys was once we visited Notts County (December 5, 1992).

A raucous weekend started on Friday afternoon with a Tyneside pub crawl with my mates, ending with considered one of their very own scoring considered one of ‘Jack the Rippers’ in a Wallsend bar, which is able to stay unnamed.

After she saved me up all night time together with her repertoire of tips, I lastly fell asleep round 5 within the morning.

I used to be woken up by my frantic roommate Simon Jones a couple of hours later, calling me from a telephone sales space and asking the place the hell I used to be.

He and Ashington Mick had been on the town ready for Barrett’s bus.

I rapidly placed on some garments and known as a taxi, earlier than telling my new acquaintance to return out later and lock my entrance door.

I arrived a couple of minutes earlier than the bus was about to depart The Goose.

The bus was filled with younger fanatics and this was a sport changer for myself, Simon and Ashington Mick who often rent a transit or Luton van.

The bus was taking a very long time and we figured we weren’t going to have the ability to have a couple of pints in Nottingham on the charge we had been going.

On the service cease, Mick discovered a Winlaton Mags transit and, after explaining our state of affairs, they agreed to let the three of us get on with them.

There was no seat within the again however gallons and gallons of alcohol.

The whole lot was going nice till Simon talked about one of many boys’ haircuts.

She had a kind of Mick Hucknall types of lengthy, curly bangs that hung over her eyes.

After Simon requested why he had it, the boy replied that with a face like Simon’s, he ought to have one too.

The entire van was laughing to itself, however Simon had taken the hump.

This boy was clearly considered one of their ringleaders and had been at court docket.

We had a…cease a couple of miles later when Simon knowledgeable me and Mick that he was about to repair the “good shit”.

After we defined that it was a joke, that we had been outnumbered three to 1, that we might be stranded on the freeway, he reluctantly backed off and our journey resumed.

We arrived in Nottingham in loads of time for supper and it was on our first ingesting spree that we met the infamous English soccer hooligan Paul Scarrott. He was a Forest fan and informed us he knew some drunks we should always go together with him to. Clearly, he was making an attempt to set us up, so Mick and I made a decision to let Simon off the leash.

I do not know what was stated, however Scarrott rapidly acquired the message and so they rapidly despatched it off with their tails between their legs.

Later, the sport and environment turned out to be nice and the Toons recorded one other spectacular 2-0 away win.

Earlier than we even left the bottom, one of many younger Gremlins started to harass a few of our personal followers and there have been no prizes for guessing who provoked it.

We should always have recognized somebody was going to get the ‘Gu-dooshed’ Batman look, by the point Winlaton Mick Hucknall had made Simon look goofy.

We acquired again on the unique Barrett bus and straight again into the whip once we acquired again to Newcastle.

I finally stumbled throughout my house within the early hours of Sunday morning.

The Jack the Ripper was clearly lengthy gone and I used to be capable of get some kip on the finish of my two day spree.

It was Ashington Mick who requested me to inform our story of this journey to Notts County.

That is in all probability as a result of we at the moment are approaching the fourth anniversary of Simon’s tragic dying.

He actually was the bravest and most loyal of boys, he was Simon Coley Jones.

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