Newcastle 1988

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Cocaine, acid, champagne, skunk… and strawberries. And all before nine in the morning! Yes, Wormer took his training seriously in those days, guzzling all of that before we’d even set off in the mini-bus. Well, it was his birthday, after all. Small wonder he preferred his elliptical runs!

But oh dear, oh dear, oh dear…. Until the Tornados hit the Toon, the Mufti was the sort of upstanding fellow to pay all of his bills on time. Sadly, fuelled by cheap drink and unable to control his base urges, he pulled Sue Jones and it was the birth of Debt Boy!

After all, as Yazz put it so wisely during the song of the tour, The Only Way is Up. And so it seemed for the Mufti! Ooer, missus.

Wor Lad was obviously on the fiddle, directing us to stay at the B&B of a friend of his dad. No wonder he’s so rich!

It was also time for yet another new nickname. Step forward Dr Bubblehead… At least his injury looked like a gigantic tit. Every cloud has a silver lining!

A fine time was had by one and all – and topped off by the birth of Shitria Law in the motorway service station, to the huge amusement of the elderly couple who were sitting next to Timmy…

TFC v Social Services score?
TFC v Dinnington score?