It looks like we’re in for yet another season where the pleas for patience try in vain to drown out the voices of angry frustration. Fans of every club tend to go into the season with over-optimistic expectations, but I do feel that there is an undercurrent of bitterness about Geordie protests that make us almost unique. At times like these, I do wonder whether we are still bearing the scars of the failure of 1996.
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