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A LETTER FROM A NEWCASTLE FAN
Last week we received a letter from Thomas, a Newcastle fan. We felt that many of the issues raised would be appropriate for publication on ComeOnBoro.com.
Thomas' Letter:
What is with your obsession with Newcastle? Seriously, it's a bit childish and pathetic really.
Now I am interested in what fans have to say about their club, which is why I am on this website.
But the amount of articles which talk about Newcastle United is quite pathetic. Are you obsessed with trying to make us look bad? You just make yourselves look worse to be honest. The whole country knows you wish you had fans like us and wish you were as big a club as us. That is obvious.
For example, in the Newcastle v Boro game recently, every song you sang was about Newcastle. Was that not annoying? Be honest.
About 95% of your songs were about us - you would think you would want to support your own team. The 1900 Boro army were loud but I have seen much better.
On that subject of the 1900 Boro army, what was with that figure? Shouldn't it have been 3000? It's very poor support for a team who is apparantley taking almost 5000 to Sheffield. We all know Newcastle is your biggest game of the season, you would have thought you would sell out.
You have abused the Keegan appointment and although he hasn't had the best start, you haven't really given him much chance have you? Keegan knows he is the only man, bar Shearer, who will be given time at this football club.
Let's look at the facts. He came in three days before the Bolton game and he had to change the style of play to suit the fans. He had two days to do this in, That's not an easy task, is it? Especially when Bolton always come away from home to play for a draw.
Keegan inherited a team who was playing boring and slow football under Allardyce. It was going to take time to get them to play in the way that he wanted.
Arsenal away was his next game. Now come on, give the man some respect. Arsenal away! "The Mighty Boro" wouldn't have even scored there. We dominated the first half in the cup tie but once again fell asleep in the second.
Three days later came Arsenal away AGAIN. The first half was good again but the goal before half time killed us.
You lot at home next and in fairness we were robbed. That should have been Keegan's first win. You may argue that it wasn't a freekick for Owen's goal. However, your goal was offside and the Owen goal that was disallowed three minutes in was just poor goalkeeping on your behalf.
Three points were taken from us that day and if the result had gone the way it should have done, you wouldn't be writing all these articles about Newcastle.
To be fair, Boro have played some decent football lately and deserve to be above us but what happend to your cocky selves when you were below us?
You all praise Alves and call him a goal machine. I'm sorry, a goal machine? For what team? I haven't seen him score in a Boro shirt yet. And you laugh at our fans for when Keegan came back? Thinking the good times were back. Hypocritical.
Newcastle fans don''t see Boro as a derby game. I know you wish we did but in all honesty we don't.
It would be much appreciated if you started talking about your own club a bit more and left ours out of it. Newcastle and Sunderland fans all agree that you are the laughing stock of the north east. When you look back at our performances, I'm shocked you weren't already above us by Christmas.
This wasn't an article to start an argument, I was just stating facts that you go a bit overboard when you abuse our club. You don't get retaliation from Newcastle fans but you wish you did. It's all attention seeking I think.
It would be great if you replied and once again it wasn't an article intended to wind you up.
Regards, Thomas.
The Editor writes:
Hi Thomas
Thanks for writing to us, we appreciate your views. I accept that your letter may not have been intended to wind us up but there are a few points that need clarifying.
If Newcastle don't consider Boro to be a derby game then why are Newcastle fans so obsessed with Boro?
On FansOnline.net (and many other sites too) the Boro board is often inundated with Newcastle fans ribbing us after poor performances. Yet when we give it back, you either go off in a huff or bite back with the standard "my Dad's bigger than yours" rhetoric about the size of your support.
This was particularly the case before the Tyne-Tees game and it suggests that Newcastle fans DO care about the Boro, despite your protestations.
If we are the laughing stock of the north-east then I pity your position. The fact is that Middlesbrough have been the most successful club in the north-east over the last twenty years. We won the Carling Cup and got to the UEFA Cup final whereas both yourselves and Sunderland have won nothing.
Equally, the derision over Keegan's appointment did not come just from Middlesbrough but came from fans from all over the country.
The football world was somewhat bemused by Keegan's appointment. In a situation where your defence is a shambles (just look at the Aston Villa debacle) do you really think Keegan is the best man for the job? What has Keegan ever won? When has Keegan ever shown the bottle and gumption that your club needs at the moment? Surely if you analyse these questions then you can see how your club has become a laughing stock.
Added to this is your demands that we should all give Keegan a chance. Is this coming from a fan of the same club who did not give Sam Allardyce a chance? This is another reason why your club has become a laughing stock.
I agree that Keegan had a tough start but you knew what fixtures you had before you decided to change your manager. I can't really sympathise with that.
The fact is that you were well beaten by Arsenal on two occasions, you struggled against Bolton, you failed to beat us and you were abject against Villa. Granted you seem to have had second half collapses in all these games but there must be a reason for this. Is it pyschology? Is it fitness? Or are you just a poor side?
With regards to the Newcastle v Middlesbrough game, I accept that Owen's goal should have stood, that the free kick should never have been given for Owen's actual goal and that our goal was offside. On the balance of play, however, we deserved to get something from the game.
Added to this is that had Owen scored in the third minute, the complexion of the game would have changed and who knows what might have happened. It's all down to conjecture and speculation.
Who said Newcastle is our biggest game of the season? I would argue that it is a big game but hardly the biggest of our season. I also accept that the Boro game is not as big as the "Big Four" games and Sunderland for you. I'm not that deluded and I don't think the majority of Boro fans are either.
It seems that Newcastle fans seem to be obsessed with crowds as it's the only thing that you have that can trump us at the moment. The reason why 1900 Boro fans were there is a combination of inflated ticket pricing, the game being on TV, the fact that the away end at St James' is up in the gods, the fact that the game was on a Sunday and that Newcastle fans are hardly the most hospitable towards the Boro crowd.
On another point, why would we, as fans, want to be like you? If we had been as quick to criticise our manager as a section of your fans did, then we would have sacked Steve McClaren before he won the Carling Cup and before he got us to the UEFA Cup Final.
We would also have dispensed of Gareth Southgate's services by now had we gone down the same route. Three months ago we looked relegation fodder but now we have optimism again. Perhaps if your fans showed more faith in your own managerial appointments then you wouldn't be in the mess that you find yourselves in now.
The fact of the matter is this. There is a section of your fanbase who live in delusion. You may have a big support and have a massive turnover but this does not necessarily make you a big club.
The sad fact is that Newcastle fans are perceived as being arrogant and when you fall in the way you have, a lot of other fans get pleasure from that.
This is not just a local perception but a national one. Living in the north-east, however, this is force-fed to us by local news who are very Newcastle-centric. Perhaps if you looked at yourselves, your own attitudes and expectations, then people wouldn't feel so much pleasure at your current demise.
It must also be said that the columnists on ComeOnBoro all have their own points of view and their reasons for talking about Newcastle may be different to those I have addressed in the above response.
I do sincerely wish you the best of luck this season and I hope Keegan can turn it around for you. I have my doubts, however.
Yours
Andy Morgan
Editor, ComeOnBoro.com
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