Ha'way the Lads!: Illustrated Story of Newcastle United

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My advice if you are going to the ground, take a packed lunch and stay in your car and get to the ground 5 minutes before kick-off. Have a care" is a traditional battlefield warning, especially as adopted by Military/historical re-enactment groups. Geordies are born on the banks of the river Tyne - eg Newcastle, Gateshead and South and North Shields. If you continue without changing your settings, we'll assume that you are on board with our cookie policy however, if you would like to, you can change your cookie settings at any time.

Up til now I always thought it was to do with Newcastle's support for King George (hence "Geordies") during the Jacobite Uprising, when "Sunderland welcomed the Scottish garrison whose soldiers subsequently besieged Newcastle"* - supporting the "Macs". You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice.

The word probably came from the term 'have way', which was used by early settlers to express an urgency to 'move on'. ha wa/ Used by 'mackems' or people originating from the Sunderland area (North East England), similar meaning and use to the geordie 'howay'. So the term most probably derived from 'have way' and has been shortened over the generations to ha'way.

It's the sort of book that you can dip in and out of and the author brings to life all the great personalities of both clubs, especially some of those who have played for both sides like Bobby Moncur, Len Shackleton and Paul Bracewell. Anyone reading this book will know it's not possible to support both teams - come on Mr Candlish, which colours do you really wear? Was at the Arsenal game here (nearly 45,000 attendance) recently and the view of the game from the stand was really good. No doubt people will have varying views on all of this, but hopefully this attempt at an explanation helps you to understand the purpose of the apostrophe in this context. It tells the story of the rivalry between the two clubs with match reports on every team match with the team line-ups, scorers, referees, everything.And if you fancy yourself a bit of an expert already, put your knowledge to the test with our Geordie dialect quiz. To my understanding that is why the apostrophe appears, as an apostrophe of omission, accounting for the varying number of a’s in such a shout. The eminent playwright George Bernard Shaw was one who wanted to abolish the apostrophe which, as ever, continues to create debate. Some of my dads legendary sayings of 'hadaway and shite man' (thats nonsense you fool), 'why aye man' (yes, certainly), 'thants canny' (its very good), 'bliddy helles belles man woman' (for Gods sake usually aimed at my nan lol) - I miss them all and the bonkers Sunday dinners. I've attended functions in various suites again well organised with polite helpful staff great food either set menu or buffet style.

No missing or damaged pages, no tears, possible very minimal creasing, no underlining or highlighting of text, and no writing in the margins.

All images are printed on Lustre paper, featuring a very natural photographic finish reminiscent of traditional photographic printing. Contains reviews of every match they've ever played against each other and "player of the decade" biogs. The staff have been very helpful and polite at all times and the events well planned and controlled. Terrifyingly, the latter is actually a Sunderland spelling of a word meaning something very similar.