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Jan 17
Geordie Revival??
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So carrying on from the last blog post for a minute, checking through the blog stats, and 3 or 4 people have so far been searching for the “Geordie Messiah returns” Be interesting to know what they think on this matter :D

Well work is slowly coming in now, and I’ve managed to sort out all the artwork for Crit, atleast until the Chav is back in the office :lol: Had a great day of calling Zoe as many different names as it was possible in the 8 hours we were at work haha! Around 3pm Geoffrey said he was gonna go get me some tissues so I could wipe my tears, and then hit me with the best news for a long time :lol: King Kev has returned to the throne :D Quickly told him that the return of the Geordie legend, meant I wouldnt be using the tissues to dry my eyes :lol:

Got home from work, and watched Twin Town again. What a film, and part way through I got a text off this dickhead. He said he;d left his wallet at work, and wondered if it’d be muchos trouble if he could have the key, or if I could meet him there bout 8ish *rollseyes* Had some tea, and finished watching Twin Town, and then met the fragle outside work so he could get his wallet, then headed back to watch updates on Sky Sports website of the Newcastle vs Stoke game. Turns out since the news broke, they sold an extra 20,000 tickets for the game against Stoke, and they had to postpone the kick-off by atleast 15 minutes due to the ticket rush. According to one or two sources there appeared to be a massive change in the crowd, and it seems the players responded to the appointment, and the buzzing crowd, and came away 4-1 victors, despite playing for best part of an hour with only 10 men!! Normally I feel we’d have folded and gone on to lose the game. Chatted to Becca Musson for a bit on facebook, till she decided using her mobile to send messages on facebook was getting a little too expensive, so told me her mobile number instead :lol:  Been invited upto the Cockle with her and a few of her mates one night to do the quiz, so it’ll be nice to do something different with a few different folks :D

Jan 16

WOW!!! I never thought I would see the day that King Kev would return to manage the beloved Toon.  Be interesting to see wether or not he brings in the other Geordie Messiah, a certain Mr Shearer, in as his number two. :D :D :D

Of course now Mark is worrying that we’re gonna be over-taking Chelsea in the league before long :lol:  Lets hope he can bring back a similar sort of cavalier football that we enjoyed under his leadership in the mid-90s, but maybe without him blowing a fuse this time!!

Happy days :D

Jan 16

Is a very bad influence on me! He keeps making me wanna buy things that I dont need :lol:

Jan 16
Ahh the joys…
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If you’re reading this whilst still in Spain Maddsy, it’s still raining over here, and I’m now going to work on a canoe :lol:

Yesterday was pretty much business as usual regarding work.  Had loads of Citroën stuff to print, so kept on with that, whilst keeping Lee and the others entertained :lol: *reminder to myself*  Owe Lee dinner :lol:

Got home in record time, and closed the curtains, got the kettle on, and got everything ready for the return of PRISON BREAK :D  Oh my god what an episode! I’d not so much forgotten about the show, but god I forgot how much I love it!!  Text olstizzle when half way through, and he told me to stop being nasty cos he couldn’t wait to watch it haha!  After watching it, and wanting the next episode to come on straight away, I decided to have some soup, and ring my mum to see how she was, and I also had a question for my father, before he jetted off to the States.

Yesterday this lass added me on facebook, who I dont think I’ve ever met before.  She knew 3 of my friends, but looking on her profile I noticed she worked at Oakmere Park Golf Course, so sent her a bit of a random message asking her if she knew my dad….. turns out she does know him, said he’s very quiet, and used to get her to make him fried egg cobs once he’d finished his round of golf :lol: Took him a while to click, till I said he may know her as just plain old Lou.  What a weird world we live in :shock:

Had a very long and relaxing bath, and then chatted to a few folks on msn, whilst watching a film called Honey with Jessica Alba in!  Love films like this, and step up :D  Once that had finished I randomly flicked through the channels, and ended up watching the end of 48 hours, and then most of Another 48 hours.  Bit of an Eddie Murphy and Nick Nolte marathon on ITV2 I think :?

Some of you may have noticed that I have set up a page on here called “Wall of Shame” It is not safe for people at work, and is a result of Bagi and Moorey having WAAAYYYY too much free time on their hands at work, and deciding to send me stupid ass pictures, so feel free to have a look :lol:

Tonight I think John said he should be back from Rome in time to go to the gym, so we’ll have to see what happens :D If not Crit has just lent me Twin Town! *welsh accent*  “It’s an AC Facking Cobra” hahaha! Quality film

Jan 15

And it’s bliss :lol: It’s safe to say a week without Maddsy is like a Ménage à trois with errmm Angelina Jolie and Jessica Biel hehehe.

Had an email back regarding some artwork, and the clown I’d emailed just put, “Get on with it Sir Nut” you’ve gotta love Richard May! He aint been the same since he dropped his foot in it with me a while back :lol: Managed to get a load of artwork done yesterday, and it’s just a case of waiting for one set of Posi’s to print before I can set another one going :D

Me and Lee seemed to have a very immature afternoon, posting random comments on each others facebook wall. helped pass a bit of time :D Had a laugh with Mark first thing when I walked into his office, and chucked the tickets at him, and said have these before I burn them, and we got talking into how horrid Man Utd fans really are, maybe it’s just people from Manchester who knows, but we finally agree on something :lol: And thats that Man Utd fans are arrogant sods. Sure there are some people that will defo agree with that ;)

Last night was a lazy night again.  Was gonna go to the gym, but the terrible weather outside made me think twice, so it turned into a movie and chippy night :lol:  First off I watched “The Number One Girl” with Vinnie Jones, which I thought was very good, and then “Remember the Titans” another film I have seen before, but remembered it was quality.  Spent some of the night chatting on msn to various people.  Looking forward to my Caramel Machiatto on Saturday now :D

Jan 14

Work was boring Friday! Didnt apear all that much to do my end, altho Maddsy was frantically sorting things out in the afternoon once he’d gotten back from his morning at the Autosports show. God it was sooo quiet without his constant yapping all day long about “Getting the drinks in lads?” When he never does *rollseyes* Topped by the fact that Lee went to Burger King at dinner seemed to rile him even more! Once he got in, me and Lee managed to sneak a few drinks in before he cottoned onto the fact we were NOT GONNA BUY HIM ONE!

Friday night I got home, and had planned a night infront of the telly with a few DVD’s and a pizza. My darling sister decided to pop round to see me, and also check out my new coat :lol: Why is it when any female seems to come round to my house, they rape my DVD collection? First it was Bex taking any DVD’s she seemed to want, Lizzie has borrowed a few in the past, my mother borrows them with regularity (or should I say my dad, but it dont fit in with the theme here) and now my sister too :? Oh and Lee and Nic sometimes borrow some too :lol: I should start a rental scheme hahaha.

Watched Platoon for the first time and enjoyed it! I’d watched bits of it in the past, but never actually sat down and watched the whole film, and then watched Monty Pythons “The Meaning of Life” :lol: God I forgot how much I enjoyed this film! Specially when the song “Every Sperm is sacred” :lol: I immaturely text Lee and Maddsy with the lyrics to the start of the song, and then said women need to learn this! Spitting is thus frowned upon by God HAHAHA Was chatting to a few folks on msn too, and poking some people on facebook, before I became boring according to Lucy and went to bed just after 11 :lol:

Woke up and got myself ready for the game, and was sat on the xbox, when Mike text me about 11 asking if it was too early for him to come over! He seemed quite excited bless him. So he came over, we watched a bit of showboating on Soccer AM, and then decided to head over to Manchester. We went in the old peoples chariot (Heather and Mike’s 1 litre Corsa) And it was quite comedy driving through the pennines! Even rabbits were overtaking us :lol: I thought I may have to get out and push when we came across one or two hills, but it made it to Manchester safely enough. Parked up in the Cricket Ground again, and made our way down to the Trafford pub. Signs stuck up saying no away fans, but I managed to infiltrate them, by pretending to be one of their own :lol: God I hated it HAHAHA! We found a KFC where we went to get a bite to eat, and not even Maddsy knew where it was! Baring in mind it’s a stone throw from Old Trafford haha!

Mike nearly got me in trouble, when we were in the Trafford pub first time, by asking if there were any pubs like this up in… and then he paused, thought about what he was gonna ask, then said “Dont matter” Lucky escape there. Had a look round the Megastore incase Mike wanted to buy a memento from his first visit to the Theatre of Dreams! Must be called that because you need to keep quiet in the Theatre, and there is no atmosphere, so you can fall asleep HAHAHA! Met up with one of Mikes work mates who has a season ticket or something, and went back into the Trafford, and it was proper rammed! Must have been a good few hundred people in there, and me and Mike quickly drank our drinks, and decided to go and have a walk down to the stadium and buy ourselves a programme, and I let Mike take a few pictures on my digital camera, cos he’d put new batteries in his, and they didnt work :lol:

Got into the ground, and Mike seemed to be in awe of his surroundings :D The ground soon started filling up, and the travelling Toon Army began to find their voice, and come kick off, were singing and dancing away like a bunch of nutters. The last game I went to the away fans were round the corner more, but this time the Toon fans took up more of an allocation than the Boro fans, and so we were sat about 9 seats away. The noise come kick-off was deafening, and Mike was shocked by the atmosphere created by the travelling Toon.

“We are the Geordies, The Geordie Boot Boys, And we are mental and we are mad, We are the loyalest football supporters, The world has ever had…”

1st Half we were more than equal apart from the openning 10 minutes, when Rooney looked like he was gonna score 5 or 6 on his own, but we weathered the early storm, and created one or two chances ourselves, including a “goal” from Michael Owen, which my dad says should have stood! Would have been a different result. Half time was ok, but once the 2nd half started it all went downhill FAST. Ronaldo did an air-kick and somehow won a free-kick, and slide it under the wall! The rest was a blur tbh! I have never hated being at a football game as much as I did the 2nd half :( Having to cheer 6 goals against the side I love and adore. Even at the end the Geordie faithful didnt stop singing, and I think that got on the back of the arrogant Man Utd fans! Specially when the “You only sing when you’re winning” and “We support our local team” Were sang 2nd half! It was great to see the reaction of the “LOCAL Mancs” :lol:

The drive home was painful, and Mike kept saying how he wanted to go again, now he’s been once, and he’s been bitten by the Old Trafford bug lol. Called into Macdonalds on the way home, near Sheffield, and then carried on home. Thanks to all the closet glory supporters who sent me texts and things! Dont be jealous that i’ve been to Old Trafford more times than you :p Went to bed once I got in, cos I felt shitty and decided against abusing people on the internet in the mood I was in hehehe!

Got to football sunday, and helped put the nets up as per usual, and once again was stuck at Centre-Back. Went 2-0 up, and then disaster struck! I became sole leader of the Penalty table :lol: Tried to clear the ball, and it hit their player and bounced into the path of their oncoming striker, without thinking I lauched through the back of the youth, smashing the ball to safety, sliding best part of 6 yards in the process, and brought down their player! PENALTY! Our side went mad, and Bagi said it was my best tackle this season! Being the last man I’d expected if it WAS a penalty to have been booked atleast, but my unblemished record of NEVER having been booked is still in tact *BASARD* :lol: We ended up losing 5-4 and the heads were lost with the penalty decision :oops: I thought I had a decent game, but according to the manager I didnt :? I ended up with a 5 rating, which has hammered my average rating for the season now, so I wasn;t too impressed, as I told Maddsy. Bagi, Bobby and Moorey all thought I had another great game, but I doubt I’d ever win Man of the Match *rollseyes*

Went round to my mums in the afternoon after football, and found out some stuff that aint really shocking news, but is if you get me! Not gonna go into it on here tho, as who knows who reads this :lol: After that I went home, and got a call off Maddsy saying “I’m sat in my shorts on a balcony bla bla bla” so to cut him mid-sentence I told him that I was sat in my boxer shorts waiting to go in the bath :lol: He was more than impressed, and quickly moved onto how we did at football hahaha! spent the rest of the night chatting to Lucy on msn, with a cameo from Fee and one or two other folks.  Fee wondered if I could remember the country of Origin of this lad called Saoul that she met when she went to watch a Plan B gig not that long ago, but I couldnt for the life of me remember.Not long after that I called it a night
Pics of Manchester visit can be found here

Jan 11

Taken from Robbo’s coloumn on the BBC Website LINK  :lol:

Enjoy reading his coloumns, and they normally make me chuckle

Well, you couldn’t say it wasn’t coming but nothing that happens at Newcastle will surprise any of us anymore.

Chris Mort (that’s French for ‘dead’ isn’t it?) made all the right noises about longevity and long-term plans and to be fair eight months is a good run on Tyneside these days.

Big Sam couldn’t lose entertainingly. That was his major failing. But surely someone sometime has got to stand up and stick with a certain someone till he’s had a chance to really prove himself.

Since Freddie Shepherd took his ball home you’d have thought there was the prospect of a bit more stability but the next victim, sorry, candidate will make it eight bosses in 11 years at St James’.

Since King Kev they’ve ditched the good (Robson), the bad (Souness), the ugly (Allardyce), the greedy (Dalglish), the needy (Gullit) and the weedy (Roeder). Who the hell’s next?

It’s hard to really care. You feel like starting off with that snide remark our wonderful MPs always begin with when their rivals are in some sort of bother: “Much as I don’t want to intrude into private grief…”

But to be honest, I haven’t met a Geordie in the last couple of days who isn’t as gobsmacked as the rest of us by the whole blinking farce.

And, as a Boro fan who does his best to ignore the fact that a quarter of the Riverside season tickets are owned by empty seats, the faithful, bursting-at-the-seams Gallowgate end deserves a bit more than this.

Granted, you Geordies do get ahead of yourselves rather too often. Frankly 11th is not far below where you should be, given the squad. But loyalty ought to have brought some reward in the last 30 years.

Even the Boro bagged a Mickey Mouse tinpot trophy that Spurs or Everton would pocket right now if they could.
Still it feeds the tabloid hacks, if no one else - and here’s my guess as to who the likeliest candidates might be.

Harry Redknapp: Has already proved that he has what it takes to manage a club like Newcastle. He’s won nowt and his team can’t score at home. Bournemouth to North Shields, though… Too cold for the man, unless he takes full advantage of Mr Ashley’s private jet.

Alan Shearer: Prefers the home comforts of the Match of the Day studio - and who can blame him?

Jose Mourinho: Unless the Special One has started smoking the Special Cigarettes, never in a million years.

Mark Hughes: Again he’s won nowt but his teams can play when they forget about clogging and he’d have the overpaid nitwits working for each other.

Terry Venables: England No. 1, then England No. 2, then Newcastle gaffer. It’s not looking good as a career path, Tel. Maybe wait a couple of years for St James’s and give yourself a more prestigious job in the meantime - Port Vale could do with someone new.

Amy Winehouse: Unstable, unpredictable, liable to fall apart any moment, doesn’t know owt about football, should suit Newcastle United down to the ground.

Steve McClaren: Free, relatively local, and whatever happens he’ll keep smiling.

Fabio Capello: No chance. He’s just delighted to find out that when people told him he had the toughest job in football they were lying.

J K Rowling: Writes fantasy books about boys with magical powers, maybe she could inject some creativity into the midfield pairing of Butt and Smith.

Kevin Keegan: A Phoenix-like return from KK? The fans’d just love it LOVE IT! if that happened. And at least he’d walk before you sacked him.

Paul Gascoigne: All right, his first attempt at management didn’t work out so well but this is a challenge that could just suit him down to the ground - and don’t forget this is a club that only recently entrusted the job to Glenn Roeder.

Ant ‘n’ Dec: Local lads made good. I can’t see them getting their hands dirty. It’s more likely to turn into some deathly reality show called summat like ‘I’m a Non-Entity - Get Me Out Of Here’ (first contestant to be voted out - Rozendal).

Robson Greene: That Wire in the Blood series is pretty nasty stuff but nothing compared with the carnage of the 4-1 trouncing against Pompey. Might have the stomach for it.

Tony Blair: Famously used to watch Jackie Milburn on the terraces before he was born. A true Toon Army soldier, he could raise a bit of finance by (a) getting his banking buddies involved, or (b) spending a bit of his own dosh.

The Toon Army themselves: Ebbsfleet Mark II. Since Ashley spends most of his time in amongst the fans in his barely credible one-of-the-lads charade, why doesn’t he just let them have a proper say? Could it be any worse?

If all else fails, I’ll have a bash. Obviously they’re near-neighbours and deadly rivals so I’ll do me best to bring the club to its knees as soon as possible. Though whether I’ll do a better job at that than Ashley or Shepherd is very hard to imagine.

Seriously though, my money’s on Mark Hughes being the next mug. I give him a fortnight.

Jan 11
Random Goings on
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Yesterday was a day pretty much like any other at work. Apart from the fact Maddsy was due to be at the Autosport show with Mark for the day, but turned up in the foulest of moods at about 9am :lol: Turns out he’d got up at 6:30, got ready to be picked up at 7:30.. then had a text off Mark saying make it later or something, then another message or call saying Mark had stuff to do today, so would have to go Friday instead :lol: He was not happy, and this just fueled the abuse from me and a certain Mr Kirk. What’s more the pair of us would sneak and get drinks from the drinks machine without him knowing, so when he came up one the rare occassion that he’d bought us a drink from the machine, me and Lee already had one! To which we had an outburst of “I’ve just wasted 60p bla bla bla bla” HAHAHA As opposed to the £1.40 odd me and Lee waste on him a day *rollseyes* Had a chat with Lucy again
Got home from work, and had a blast at becoming the Corleone Underboss :lol: before getting ready to go to the gym, and then heading over to Mcarthur Glen to meet John at work. Finally got myself on the machine they have in the food hall section, and was pleasently surprised with the results.

Height = 5ft 7.3in - 171cm

Weight = 11st 6lb (Average for height is 9st 2.9lb - 11st 6.5lb)

Fat Index - 16.6% (Average for height is 14-20%)

Body Mass Index 24.1 kg/m (Average is 20-24.9)

Bought the coat, and it looks proper pimp, and also a plain white shirt, and got some extra money off, and me and John both decided against going to the gym, cos our body was showing signs of over-exertion this last week. My arms and shoulders were stiff as hell, and he agreed his back and shoulders were sore too, so after hanging around chatting to him and Troy for a bit about a few of the DVD’s I’ve got I made my way home for some more xboxing and chatting online :D

A few days ago I was on about possibly wanting a career change so I’ve sent in my application to the Real World. So I’m hoping to hear back from that. I’m putting A LOT of my eggs into that basket, the MTV basket. I’m also thinking about getting a gun, and dealing crack. Being a crack dealer. Not like a mean crack dealer, but like… like a nice one. Kinda friendly like, “hey, what’s up guys? Want some crack?” I’m just waiting on those two things to flesh themselves out.

Had a phone call from our Malc saying that last night he passed me at Widecombe Fayre traffic lights, and that I was messing about with my hair and singing away to my music :lol: He even pipped me a few times, but I was in a world of my own HAHAHA

Also Vicky has been very nasty to me! She told me yesterday she was making a trifle, making me really hungry, and wanting some trifle, so late last night, the evil cow sent me a picture of it GRRRRRR

*EDIT* I would like to apologise for lying! According to Maddsy i’ve never been 5ft 7! IT must have been the same machine that spat out that he was only a mere 12 stone :lol:

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