It’s become a throw-away comment which has become synonymous with Newcastle fans over the years.
The word ‘deluded’ tends to be thrown at us with alarming frequency, but are we really as bad as what other fans say?
Personally speaking, it annoys the hell out of me when people make these kind of remarks. When they use the word deluded they really show up just how thick and ignorant they are. Still, if they want to be simple and get suckered in by using a lazy insult then fair enough. I, and many others, know different.
The perception is that us Newcastle fans are unhappy when we aren’t challenging for trophies or when we aren’t tussling at the top of the league. We are an impatient lot apparently, although quite how anyone can be impatient after 40-plus years of waiting for a trophy is beyond me. We moan about the managers and harass them out of their job and disapprove of **** performances of our players.
To be fair, with that lot I could be describing Liverpool fans, or any fan to be fair.
We all want the club to be doing the best that it possibly can. We all want it to be challenging for honours at the top of that game, but all too often we have been let down aside from about 20 years of success dotted sporadically throughout our 129 year history. There is no ‘divine right’ (another myth that us NUFC fans have thrown at us) for us to be challenging for trophies.
Deluded? So fans at other clubs have no ambition then? Do fans of other clubs not dream about winning a trophy? Of course they do. Does that make those fans deluded also?
I just wanted to get this off my chest as it’s one of the main things that grinds my gears when I hear opposition fans saying it. Granted, we haven’t had to deal with morons from other clubs on here yet, but as the site gets more noticed, gets busier and gets on places such as Newsnow it will no doubt start to happen.
The bottom line is that us Newcastle fans are the salt of the earth 😉 and that the rest of them are just bitter about our great support. That’s how I view it anyway.
Are we deluded?
No. We are no different to fans at any club up and down the country and at any level of the league pyramid. They all want their respective team to be at the top and they all dream of silverware. They all get angry when their team has a bad result and they all get angry when a manager goes on a bad run. Now if you really want to see deluded, just take a look at Sunderland.
The next level indeed!
About toonsy
A lifelong Newcastle fan and current webmaster of this very 'blog who has the sole aim of creating a place by Newcastle United fans, for Newcastle United fans.
Richie Its a pity you and Toonsy wern’t on xbox my wee lad loves adding friends 😆 but he kicked someone the other nite for saying bad words so that would maybe count you’s out 😀
Big Dave(Quote)
Dave….nae idea cos worked me way to the top and now going thru that”prestige” mode…..don’t ask me to explain tho cos I’ve nae idea 😀
richietoon(Quote)
Ice ask him if he wants to let me know what his name is on it as dede is always looking mates 😉 especially if they are a lower level than him 😆 😆 😆
Big Dave(Quote)
Dave – I tried playing Rich the other day and we couldn’t even set up a game together, so I played online on my own and got killed about 6 times in two minutes and turned it off 😆
toonsy(Quote)
I don’t swear Dave. 😉
richietoon(Quote)
I might have to go on a treadmill tomorrow for that medical 😯
I hope Japan is ready for the aftershocks 😆
toonsy(Quote)
Toonsy 😆 😆
Jobey07(Quote)
don’t worry mate, if you fail your medical just have a word with Newcastle, they’ll take you 😉
Jobey07(Quote)
Richie its a bit **** when you lose all your stuff when you move up prestige’s and go back to the bog standard stuff . I found it hard at 1st working it all out
My wee lad is 4th prestige, level 47
Big Dave(Quote)
DAVE only plays games on it m8,cannot get him off that bloody f/book when hes in on msm or sumit
icedog(Quote)
Jobey – If I fail I will be seriously surprised 😉
toonsy(Quote)
Toonsy London zoo have a big treadmill you could use 😉
Big Dave(Quote)
cod’s terrible.. Fifa is the game 😉
dan4toon(Quote)
What’s the medical for?
Jobey07(Quote)
Dave – So does Gladiators 😆
Jobey – New job 😉
toonsy(Quote)
Dan – I can never connect to anyone on FIFA anymore. Tried that with Rich as well and it didn;t work 😆
toonsy(Quote)
sounds good.
and why do you need a medical?you gunna be a 100m sprinter? 😆
Jobey07(Quote)
Ice I dont mean to just have as a friend to chat too, I mean to play against or in the same team 😉
Big Dave(Quote)
TOONSY telt you before batty doing the medical,he only checks wallets,mind if its empty you fail 😆
icedog(Quote)
Agree Dan, fifa is far better than cod.
Anyone else play it?
AndrewNUFC(Quote)
I’d terrorise anyone on FIFA 😉
Jobey07(Quote)
Andrew you know more than anyone my Fifa skills 😉
The great Blackpool 😆
dan4toon(Quote)
Get your **** on the forum an set up a FIFA challenge or summit then 😉
toonsy(Quote)
I play PES 11. Always prefered PES to FIFA.
DJG(Quote)
DJG always has to be different doesn’t he 🙄 😆
toonsy(Quote)
Dave…I’m on level 43…I was an 80’s band in the previous level 😆
Only been on fifa once months ago and a bit yesterday, I get radged if anyone does tricks as I can only remember 2 buttons at anyone time 🙁 ……….what I’m trying to say is,I’m **** 😥
richietoon(Quote)
PES is awful 😯
I’ve made a thread aboot it, don’t like posting on the forum, it asks me challenging questions, the last one was ”10+11=” i had to get the calculator out
Jobey07(Quote)
Thats cos DJG is deluded 😆
richietoon(Quote)
Most my friends play PES tbh I didn’t choose it to be different. Plus in the old days PES was so much better than FIFA it was embarrasing.
DJG(Quote)
My gamertag is HunterNUFC if anyone else has xbox.
AndrewNUFC(Quote)
DJG is special but arnt ye mate 😉
Big Dave(Quote)
Anyone seen the fifa bloke on youtube? AwesomeGoals or something. He is in fact awesome! FIFA over PES anyday
pearceet(Quote)
AndrewNUFC you dont play black ops do you ❓
Big Dave(Quote)
Jobey – Once you’ve posted it shouldn’t do. It’s just a security thing 🙂
toonsy(Quote)
Not gonna get into a fan boy arguement but I’ve played both the demos of the latest versions and I still think PES 11 is better. Although I’ll admit FIFA caught up in 2010. 😯 Shock horror. 🙂
DJG(Quote)
I play black ops, theres a video on youtube of some guy filming my game 😆
Jobey07(Quote)
my gamertags… dan4toon if anyone wants a beating on Fifa 😆
dan4toon(Quote)
Toonsy…you’ve spoilt my fun on the PS3, I used to like pressing the button to bring up my friends list and it would come up with
“YOU HAVE NO FRIENDS”….ah how I miss those days 😆
richietoon(Quote)
Jobey whats yours mate as my wee lad is on Black ops all the time but he is only 8 if you dont mind having a kid on as a friend
Big Dave(Quote)
Mines just jobey07, i don’t go on black ops that much anymore like.
too many people better than me
this was me in my prime, on my mates account
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9AhLhNZRak
😆
Jobey07(Quote)
Dan4toon i challenge you to a game, i think i’ll beat you 😉
Davidtoon4life(Quote)
DAVE tell dede its rare hes gans on now his mind always on his malta move now,and some tart on msm,divent tell dede that bit like 🙄
icedog(Quote)
David, it’s not like we’ve played a million times before and I’ve won 999,999 times 😉
dan4toon(Quote)
Here ya go lads,
https://www.nufcblog.co.uk/forum/gaming-challenges/
Challenge away 😉
toonsy(Quote)
U don’t need to embarrass yourself Dan, i know im better 😀
Davidtoon4life(Quote)
It would help if you had a xbox 😉
dan4toon(Quote)
Amybody watching channel 4? some beautys on that like 😆
Jobey07(Quote)
Jobey – Nah. Eastenders for me 🙄
toonsy(Quote)
Ice 😆 😆 😆
Lads my wee lads is WEE DEDE 9 so you’s know if he adds you’s
Big Dave(Quote)
Toonsy- I think i see you as a child 😆 😆
Jobey07(Quote)
Jobey – You’ll need to explain that as it’s gone straight over my head 😆
toonsy(Quote)
Just Supersize children XD 16 stone at the age of 15
Jobey07(Quote)
should be tall like jay jay then toonsy 😀
icedog(Quote)
Cheeky fok. I was a streak of **** when I left school. I’ll dig a pic out, hang on 😆
toonsy(Quote)
😆 😆
It’s a class show, im laughing at what the fat fok eats every day
Jobey07(Quote)
I dyed my hair bleach blonde cos that’s how we rolled back in the day 😆
toonsy(Quote)
i take it your the one in the white top then 😀
icedog(Quote)
Ice 😉
The one on left had my love wand for a bit 😉
toonsy(Quote)
ice, i was gunna say that 😆
Jobey07(Quote)
from blond to bald in one easy step,telt you not to use that wash and go mate 😀
icedog(Quote)
Too smooth to move Toonsy I love me who do you love 😆
Big Dave(Quote)
🙄 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆
Big Dave(Quote)
Dave – Aye, I am a good looking fecker 🙂
I was back then anyway. Nowt changes though 😉
toonsy(Quote)
DAVE who we ganning to pick on when richie gans,for me toonsy and djg are near top of the lge 😉
icedog(Quote)
New thread up anyway 🙂
toonsy(Quote)
ffs iam still on atari
batty(Quote)
😆
richietoon(Quote)
Richie is still on the commodore c64
Big Dave(Quote)
There’s an interesting debate in Australian football happening at the moment about what makes a football fan. Our crowds are falling – from a very low base.
I won’t get into the whole debate as it has too many aspects to it that would take too long to explain for non-aussies. But the best point that has been made afaiak is that quality of football has nothing to do with being a football fan, otherwise we would all support Barcelona and nobody would turn up to any game not featuring half a dozen teams from the premier league.
Being a fan is not about logic, it’s about passion. It’s about having an emotional connection to the team of your choosing. It’s about identification. And the deeper you identify the more your personal feelings become entwined with the team’s results.
Once you make the decision to be a fan, you follow the team through thick and thin and you want them to win everything. You invest part of your being in the team and your emotions rise and fall with the team’s fortunes. It is an extension of yourself.
How you react to (or write about) your team’s fortunes is, to a large degree, a reflection of your personality.
O well, another rant at the end of a thread that nobody will read coz they’ve all moved on. *shrugs*
Brisvegas(Quote)
Brisvegas I read it mate 😉 and you make a few good points
Big Dave(Quote)
I read it as well. I wish some of our other fans read it as well 😉
toonsy(Quote)
Brisvegas @144 Well said mate.
Jill(Quote)