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THE PETER HUGHES COLUMN - PARIAH v MESSIAH
Peter Hughes
I was going to start my first piece for this site by talking about our history.
I was going to mention the way we have suffered throughout the decades, about how every time we get a decent team, a world war or a points deduction ruins it.
I was going to discuss the fans - the grandfathers and great-grandfathers who have frozen on the bleak concrete of Ayresome Park and how throughout their decades of undying devotion, they never saw the Boro in a major final. Indeed, some of them were lucky to see the Boro in the top flight.
I was going to write about how proud we should be to be an established Premiership side that the top teams fear to play against and how this is a golden period for the club.
I was going to write about how bright the future looks with Gareth and Steve leading the way to the promised land.
There are two great things about being a football fan. One is taking the utmost pride in your club. The other is laughing at your neighbours.
I have decided on the latter.
My Mam always said if you can’t say anything good about anyone then don’t say anything at all. But Mam won’t be reading this, so here goes...
You wouldn’t have thought it was possible for one club in this millennium to be run as badly as Newcastle.
It’s so easy to forget that ten years ago, with the much respected Sir John Hall backing a passionate Kevin Keegan, they had an attacking, exciting team that was everyone's favourite second side (even if we didn’t admit it in public).
I remember having mixed feelings when they were twleve points ahead of Manchester United in the League. I was glad that some success was coming to the North East but I was also aware of the ribbing we would get from the Mags.
But now I luv it, really luv it, that they did not win the Premiership.
Their fans now talk as if they are one of the "Big Four" yet in the last eleven years they have only finished in the top half FOUR TIMES!
They are the most deluded set of fans in the world. Their team has not won a proper trophy in over half a century but because they are a big city with only one team, they think they deserve success.
The way they turn on any new manager before he has had a chance to change the team is ridiculous. Didn’t Sir Alex take four years to win a trophy for United?
Yet they demand instant success and harp on about Keegan and the glory days.
If we look into things more deeply, we find that KK is very much like Bryan Robson:
Both took an average club into their most successful period in recent times.
Both managers played an exciting, attack-minded team that had little spent on their defences.
Both spent millions that their predecessors could only have dreamed of.
Both had great chairmen backing them to the hilt.
BOTH WON NOTHING.
The main difference between Boro fans and the Mags is that we don’t constantly go on about how we need to get Robson back.
Whereas we have moved on and had success, they seem to be stuck in the past like fans of Burnley or Preston.
But this millennium they have bought the sort of players their fans deserve: Bellamy, Dyer, Bowyer etc. When Manchester City had the sense to get rid of Joey Barton, you knew there was only one club that would have him.
But it's not just the fans and the players that make the club so bad - their chairmen are also unbelievable.
Fat Shepherd ridiculed the fans for buying overly expensive shirts and he described their best ever player as ‘Mary Poppins’.
Then along comes Fat Ashley and he sacks a competent manager who hasn’t had time to alter a poor team.
He then swaggers about necking pints in one as he sets up some sort of corporate management group that takes away all the power from the guy that’s supposed to make the decisions and treats him like a regional manager for Sports Direct.
If you were imposing a continental system, why in God's name would you put Dennis Wise at the helm of it? It makes you realise how lucky we are to have a chairman of the quality of Steve Gibson.
Thank God our club is run by a guy from Park End who feels passionately about the club and the fans and not a foreigner who looks upon a club as a cash cow/status symbol/latest fashion trend.
But my main problem with Newcastle fans is their obsession with Keegan.
Am I missing something here? Why is it KING Kev? Never in the history of the game has a manager been given so much money to spend by so many different owners and has walked away from every job after winning ABSOLUTELY NOTHING!
The guy is a joke. He is not a great motivator (we found that out when he was in charge of England) and he never 'discovers' a great player for peanuts.
He has only one talent and that is to hoodwink owners into spending millions of pounds for him to play 'fantasy football'.
If there was a nationwide survey for worst manager, Steve McClaren would no doubt win it. Yet he won silverware and got a team to a European final on a small fraction of the budget that KK recieved and never walked away from a job.
So while McClaren is treat like a pariah, Keegan is treat like the Messiah...
"Well he's not the Messiah - he's a very naughty boy."
Peter Hughes
BACK TO THE TALKING
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