Team Information

 GATESHEAD OLD BOYS

 Venue:
 St. Teresa's Catholic Club, 200b Heaton Road, Newcastle, Tyne & Wear NE6 5HP.
 Tel 0191 2400488.

  How To Get There

 Representative:
 Brian Neil
 6, Killhope Grove, Bishop Auckland, DL14 0SG
 Tel No: 01388-663560
 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 !
 

Gateshead Old Boys;

Left to right - Robin Stephenson, Mick Shaw, Steve Heywood and Brian Neil.