22 Problems Only People From The North East Will Understand

20. This Man

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6Afz_UYq3c Barry "The Horse Puncher" Rogerson. A mighty skidmark on the face of the North East, and a particularly giant brown splash on the pants of the Toon. Most of you will remember when Barry punched police horse "Bud" in the neck at the Sunderland-Newcastle derby match this time last year. Embarrassing, much? What appeared in the media next was a solemn-looking Barry posing in the Daily Mail with his dog, as proof he truly did love animals. He even had fishpond, for crying out loud. The reason he was wearing a bandana to cover his face in the riot was because he "had a toothache and wanted to keep the cold off of it". Obviously. It then turned out he'd actually been living on disability benefits since 2005, and was under the influence of a lot of medication when he punched the horse. And perhaps some lager. Yes, definitely lager. Rogerson was naturally sneered at, circulating the Internet with memes, temporarily standing as a lousy representation of a Newcastle fan.