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  1. it must be time for me to confess. many years ago, i think it must have been in the early 60. i was invited be a boss of mine to watch his team newcastle  play at the sags gas works in a cup game. never having slummed that much before it all became a bit of a shock. apart from the awful smell we had some of the best seats in the old  rotting stand the one with the buckets of water to put out the fires from the rubbish and fag ends dropped between the gaps in the wood planking floor. a sort of fire watch duty. my seat was directly under an old loudspeaker that hung from its wire.  i drew the stewards attention to this and was told it was ok because it had been like it for years. the game started and shortly after the loudspeaker  and its wire parted and it landed on my head giving me a cut that bled  rather well, the steward  rushed to me and offered me his dirty snotty handkerchief.  on the monday following i phoned to complain and was offered a free ticket to the next sag  home game . i declined of course. the point i make is that if this had happened today with the claim and blame society    i would have prob ended up sueing and owning the lot   could have then shut the club down and sold the old gas works to ikea.

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