Newcastle United club crest, tattoos and the next generation of NUFC fans | OneFootball

I got a call from my good mate Colin Watson Jnr to inform me that his first Grandbairn, a boy Leo, had been born on the 9th of June.

I could tell how happy he was that the lad had been born on the anniversary of George ‘Geordie’ Ridley’s first performance of his new song, ‘The Blaydon Races’, at Blaydon Mechanics Hall way back in 1862.

Colin is a North Shields lad born and bred, who lives near Middlesbrough now. He is Newcastle United through and through just like his late Dad.

Colin Snr was one of the blokes in the crowd in the 1990s and early 2000s that Sky Sports would regularly pick out whenever United appeared live.

A larger than life character with a deadpan lived in face, he was ideal for their typical Geordie stereotype/narrative so to speak.

Young Colin looks nowt like him, although they both shared a love of having multiple Newcastle United tattoos.

Regularly being a shorts and tee shirt man, the tattoos are plainly visible, and Colin has told me that he has never had any problem down on Teesside whatsoever.

Colin has every one of our club crests among his repertoire of Toon tattoos but my favourite is the mock up Saudi themed version of our current design.

That Newcastle United club crest variation (see below) features the seahorses wearing shemaghs, a Saudi flag flying and Newcastle United written in green.

I had spotted it back in 2022 after the Newcastle United takeover had ruffled so many feathers in the EPL and recommended it to Colin. He obviously loved it.

Colin and his missus regularly go to New York and his local over there is Peter Dillons on 36th Street, which is where the New York based Newcastle United supporters club meet.

The manager and locals now know them well and thankfully the native New Yorkers like all his tattoos, including his Saudi inspired one. They realise it is a micky-take and know all about the Septic Six.

Recently on the ‘Letters to the Mag‘, a bloke sent in his own design idea for our upcoming new Newcastle United club crest. It was a bit “out of the box” and some scoffed but I quite liked it.

The Newcastle United owners have apparently indicated that there will be no Saudi influence in any new design but I have to say that if there was, it wouldn’t bother me in the slightest.

Anyway, back to the new bairn Leo and I know this lad will be black and white from the crib.

His Granda is a bit younger than me but just like me and my mates, he’s done all the hard rounds watching United home and away, both man and boy.