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Mike Perren @mikeperren.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

You know Dan Burn had that framed on his wall as a centrepiece… May have been replaced now mind. 😉

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Mike Perren @mikeperren.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It’s 21 years old????!!? Just refreshed my memory and that is scary. 😧

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Mike Perren @mikeperren.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Enjoy! The second and third seem to garner all the plaudits these days, but I remember sitting down to Batman Begins and having an absolute blast. Don’t check out just to get to 2, and 3, savour them all!

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Mike Perren @mikeperren.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Looks like #nufc are going to be pushing the castle as somewhat of its own brand, much like the Arsenal cannon, Man Utd’s Red Devil, etc. Ya reckon?

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Mike Perren @mikeperren.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Yes this! And the irony is that if City are demoted to the bottom of the football pyramid it will be the die hard “legacy fans” that City turn to in order to survive. Legacy fans previously priced out, shafted by tv schedules, fans whom the club would prefer to have been replaced by tourists.

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Elmo I Don't Know Idk

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Mike Perren @mikeperren.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

We don’t need to wait for official sanctions or owt, it needn’t be accepted by the wider footballing world, this can be our thing. Like that Palace Brighton derby, these emergent animosities and traditions are what we “legacy fans” (🤢) do best. Cisse&Borini carry out the trophy before every derby

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Mike Perren @mikeperren.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

In light of Man City news: a proposal! City beat #nufc and Sunderland that year, robbing the world of a Tyne Wear derby in a cup final (IMAGINE!!). I say every derby day henceforth is a cup final with claim to the 2014 League Cup at stake. It should pass back and forth like the ashes urn. Discuss

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Mike Perren @mikeperren.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Question! If Eddie takes over at Man Yoo, must we instantly hate him? Man that’s gonna be tough.

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Mike Perren @mikeperren.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Miley perma-right back… Dedic right wing? 🤔 #nufc

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Mike Perren @mikeperren.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Ginola and Parker went on to win Player of the season after leaving. If we’re going that far back then Tomasson did. Dietmar Hamann too. Thauvin?

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Mike Perren @mikeperren.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

It’s madness. Bought by City for half of that. Two goals since? Yikes. Could smash it of course but probably won’t prove to be worth that.

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Mike Perren @mikeperren.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Appreciate the point you are making. 👊👍 Let’s see. The problem is Villa are recruiting heavily too and this summer there is no question as to which club a player would rather sign. As an aside, that Emery was a decent appointment wasn’t he.

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Mike Perren @mikeperren.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

I love these annual friendly double headers. ☺️ Heading to the Gallowgate end this afternoon and hoping today is Sean Steur’s outing. Dying to see him play in person. Wissa 2.0 too, why not. #HWTL #nufc

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Mike Perren @mikeperren.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

“Hey ambitious club, give up your excellent assets more quickly please and we’ll let you eat just that little bit closer to the top table. Good boys.” “Don’t hold on to them!! “What? You did hold on to them and won a cup? GUT THEM”

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Mike Perren @mikeperren.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

He sums up the Catch 22 nature of it all doesn‘t he? We ”should“ have sold sooner... but we won a cup. In hindsight should we have sold sooner in order to have a more complete squad capable of challenging for top 6 every season… and NOT won a trophy?🏆 Is that the aspiration now? #nufc #legacyfan

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Mike Perren @mikeperren.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

At this point he should also be telling us which club Dedic and his agent is trying to bait... then we can get a quick answer to see if they’re interested, and if not then wrap up the signing to his obviously-not-first-choice of club #nufc *sigh

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Mike Perren @mikeperren.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

youtu.be/MxcZ3z5t_gQ?... Outstanding. Sums up the justifiable optimism beautifully. Dismantles the broken system eloquently: "fans don't turn up for 'effective player trading', they don't get a stiffy for a player to increase their future value..." I may have paraphrased. 😅

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Why Matthias Jaissle Changes Everything For Newcastle

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Mike Perren @mikeperren.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Football Manager 26 approved. GERRIMIN!!!! 😅

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Mike Perren @mikeperren.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Poole and still have family there! My dad is a cherry so as you can imagine, Eddie need never pay for a round when at the same bar as one of we Perrens! ☺️

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Mike Perren @mikeperren.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

What incredibly sensible squad building! Gan on lads. 👊

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Mike Perren @mikeperren.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Wew I’m like you in reverse! I was brought up from aged five in the north east and Dorset beforehand. Also a Mike. Reckon we’re part of some social experiment? 😂

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Mike Perren @mikeperren.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

If his heading was better we’ve got ourselves a decent No Nonsense Centre Back in Matthias Jaissle! Tempted to sign, but would only block one of the many stockpiled wonderkid centre backs I have. Player/coach though? 🤔

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Mike Perren @mikeperren.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Playing my annual FM12 save and came across this fella. I hope he’s worked on his mentals since then! Nowadays it’s Strength 20. 👊 😅 #nufc

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Mike Perren @mikeperren.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

In the hour I've spent with them they have grown on me. I'm going with my traditional seahorse heads. Not the hardened, rough, radge sea horses on the other two. Though they may be more in keeping with Matty Jazzle's general air and most definitely his biceps.

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Mike Perren @mikeperren.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

I mean, its canny old now like, but still.

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Mike Perren @mikeperren.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Yeah fair point actually re the castle! Something the circular magpie crest on this season's away shirt has over these designs, it is roughly the New Castle!

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Mike Perren @mikeperren.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Homophobia cured instantly as even Big "Bomber" Bob from Billingsworth is forced to confess, upon being shown the Schar footage that even he himself: The Straightest Man Alive Bomber Bob, wouldn't be able to resist slipping Fab a finger.

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Mike Perren @mikeperren.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

They should make that the new badge!!

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Mike Perren @mikeperren.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Interestingly they are being delivered and presented in a different order to different people. Probably in the hope of eliminating a positional based bias? In your three I've gone for the middle as my first choice. 👍

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Mike Perren @mikeperren.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Also, to anyone that sees this (both of you), You have to promise not to steal VaJaissle as your FPL team name. K? K. ☺️

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Mike Perren @mikeperren.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Time to move one. VaJaissle's Mental Mags here we go!

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Mike Perren @mikeperren.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Ginola the prime example! Booed and ridiculed during a 6-1 cup win over Spurs (he got theirs! 😅), and yet something akin to a #nufc club ambassador these days!

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Mike Perren @mikeperren.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

firstly I do agree with you, but I can’t help but be enormously frustrated with the pervading urge amongst #nufc fans now to “just have it be done”. Thats exactly the sentiment the Arsenal-led agents, and the paid purveyors of piss (journos) have been wanting to embed all along. They’ve won. 😔

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Mike Perren @mikeperren.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Graeme has surprisingly been announced to be leaving. Seems Howe has adopted him into the clique! Funny to remember the time he was rumoured to be the brains behind the team under Bruce! 😅

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Mike Perren @mikeperren.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Remember when a Coutinho sale, or a Grealish sale, meant that a Liverpool/Villa could spend indefinitely? Well we’ve done three such sales, four with the 🐀, surely we can now spend as much as we like? #nufc

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Mike Perren @mikeperren.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

There better be a goosebump inducing, tear making, soul ripping, joyous, and above all: celebratory, montage incoming from the official #nufc account ! Hopefully they’re just choosing the perfect song now. #GanCannyEddie

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Mike Perren @mikeperren.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Yeah you do need the membership apparently.

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Mike Perren @mikeperren.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

A hero. Mine. Probably yours too. The nufc.com boys: "His passing severs another connection with football as it once was..." RIP KK

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Mike Perren @mikeperren.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

I'm struggling with football having been a fan of 34 years. Always knew it isn't healthy to have happiness hang on something you cannot effect, but god how could you not fall madly in love with it when there's Kevin Keegan drawing you in with his unique siren song? Passion. Fierce passion. Pride.

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Mike Perren @mikeperren.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Wasn't there, was 11 and sat in a room with a radio and with my uncle who had me on a 'silence under pain of death' notice whilst he finished his uni essay due the next day... That notice went out the window when Clarkie scored. Though it was quickly reinstated 😂 98% he got apparently.

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Michael Martin @tfmick1892.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Absolutely devastating news that Kevin Keegan has passed away. Simply the greatest person involved with #NUFC in my lifetime. God bless the Keegan family and thank you for sharing him with us. We loved him.

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Mike Perren @mikeperren.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Had Jerome what’s off Robson and Jerome in that one. 😅

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Mike Perren @mikeperren.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

At the risk of asking you to relive the episode… which one? ☺️ I have nightmares over the squid game where they have to make a repeated 50/50 call and one contestant is a mathematician and calculates the odds of success and laughs maniacally at the impossibility of it all. 😅

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