Venue:
St. Teresa's Catholic Club, 200b Heaton Road, Newcastle, Tyne & Wear NE6 5HP.
Tel 0191 2400488.
How To Get There
Representative:
Brian Neil
5, West
Deanery Farm Close,
South Church, Bishop Auckland, DL14 6ZG
Tel No: 01388-329690
Mobile: 07872-817152
EMail:
brian.neil@baydonhillfx.com
A brief history (by Brian
Neil):-
Myself and Robin started school
together in Gateshead (Carr Hill Junior) at five and have known each other
ever since. Although we were never best mates we knocked around together and
played football together. When we left school we somehow ended up going to
the match together, firstly standing in the Leazes end in the 70's & when they pulled it down standing in the Gallowgate and then the East Stand Paddock. Robin's knowledge of all things NUFC is worrying - even down
to which pubs we went into and what we had to eat before away games 25
years ago and he remembers all of the trophies we've won as well - amazing !
We met Mick Shaw in the Cooperage on the Quayside late one Friday night /
Saturday morning in the early 80's - we were arguing about some track and
Mick put us right with his phenomenal music knowledge - if only there was a
pop music round in the quiz! Mick also being a big Newcastle fan, he started
coming to away games with us and then home games as well. I guess the three
of us have been going to the match together for 25 years now and have sat
next to each other for the last twenty - eeeejits!
None of us can remember exactly when we first met Steve (aka Elvis - he's a
massive fan - of Mr. Costello not Presley), but, we reckon it must have
been in the mid 90's. Again we met him through NUFC - he also used to
drink in the Monkey Bar before home games and we just sort of adopted
him.
Robin, Mick and myself used to go to loads of general knowledge quizzes
back in the day, but we didn't know about the Sports Quiz League until
we met Paul Davison, Dave Lowther and Alan Kitchen while doing the Hels
Bells and Buzzers quiz on Radio 5 and the rest as they say ....
The team has changed a bit since we kicked off due to shifts and can't be
arsed etc ... as none of the lads other than myself were originals... but
we've had much the same four for the last three or four seasons and due to a
lack of transfer budget the side will remain alarmingly unchanged for the
2009/10 season !