Newcastle bloody United.

Blimey they love their footy in Southeast Asia. Turn on the telly at any given time and you can guarantee there'll be a repeat of at least 3 Premiership games being shown.

What's even better though, is with most kick off times being staggered, you've a better than evens chance of seeing a broadcast of your team's matches live.

It's great.

Or at least it would be great if your team was Man U, Tottenham or any other side that tends to score more than one goal every 5 hours.

In the past month I've stayed up late in Laos to watch Newcastle score Nil against Wigan, put Wend to bed early in Hanoi so I could catch us score Nil against the Smoggies and completed the hat-trick last night in Cambodia by tuning in to see the magnificent Magpies notch another Nil against Charlton Athletic.

Has anyone spotted a pattern developing here?

I told a few of the lads before setting off that this would be the year Newcastle finally picked up a trophy. My thinking - and I was absolutely convinced this was true - was that we hadn't won a pot in the previous 38 years because I'd been at most of the matches.

It was all my fault you see, my legendary negative karma had been holding the Black & Whites back all along and the solution was simple; all I had to do was bugger off 'round the world for 8 months and the silverware was as good as in the cabinet.

Aye, well the past week has seen that theory blown out the water good and proper hasn't it?

Maybe it's Juzz's fault.