The Most Bizarre Toon Protest EVER? - Newcastle United FC

We thought we'd seen it all over the years, with "Sack The Board" protests, the walk from Roker to St James' Park (in protest because they wouldn't give us derby tickets), and the "Cockney Mafia" banner. But ....

... a fashion designer has made a wedding dress out of recycled Newcastle United shirts in protest at the continuing chaos at the club.

Angy Morton and her husband Mike are both Newcastle United fans, but decided to tear up their shirts after Kevin Keegan left the club.

Angy (who runs her own fashion design business near Lake Windermere in Cumbria) say the dress will feature in a fashion show at Rheged near Penrith on October 10.

Now we wonder if this protest is simply a way of promoting the event.

She says: "Newcastle United fans have a real love hate relationship with their team at the moment.

"So I thought tearing up the shirts and turning them into a wedding dress was a good way to express how we feel.

"Many fans are finding it difficult to wear their shirts with pride with the way things are going at the moment.

"But ultimately there's no escape because they are really married to football and the team!

"A lot of clothing gets thrown out because we've grown tired of it or because something new comes along.

"I like to think how I can make a beautiful new outfit or perhaps a bag out of these things.

"The Newcastle United shirts are a good example. Two new shirts are brought out every year, but what happens to all the old ones?

"Many of them probably get thrown out or just end up at the back of a cupboard.

"It's such a waste when we could be doing something new and exciting with them."

I know one Toon fan ... married to a Mackem ... and he recycles her old Mackem shirts.

He makes incontinence underpants for her grandfather!