3rd April 2005
It pains me to say this but it's nigh time this was said - the club
we follow unconditionally is a damn disgrace to us all. That's right,
an absolute disgrace. Bow your collective heads in shame and apologize
for this traumatic and down right disgraceful season you have forced
us to endure. Apologise to those of us that have put you in your positions
of power, that have built St. James' Park our magnificent home that
the class of 2005 aren't fit enough to grace, who have bought your
luxurious homes, expensive cars, flash tom and showered adulation
on your sorry arses without fail.
For years we have waited for just a glimmer of reward for our loyalty,
our patience and our millions of pounds which we have pumped into
the club but all we get in return is a kick in the stones from the
steel cappers of thug United.
Where is the respect we deserve? If it wasn't for us, there would
be no NUFC, no luxurious homes, expensive cars and hero status, nothing.
We support the badge out of sheer love for what it represents - it
represents us all. We are proud of that badge and for 125 years it
has been the epicenter of our lives, generation after generation,
year in - year out without fail. We can cope with failure, losing
a football match and losing out in the transfer market - that's football.
We accept that. What we don't accept is being taken for mugs, being
shown utter contempt and no respect whatsoever.
This season has been a disgrace not for the pitiful football which
has been served but for the none footballing factors and off the field
incidents that have just about taken it's toll on us, stretching our
own pain threshold to breaking point.
From Kieron Dyer wiping his arse with our shirt to the disgraceful
manner in which Sir Bobby Robson was treated prior to his sacking,
the after-math of that and the subsequent treatment of an old-aged
man who gave us 5 great years of his life. Treatment which has forced
the proud local man to seek legal action against the club he adores,
the club that once represented what was in his heart - a Black & White
heart. A man who's father once took him to the Old Gallowgate as most
Geordies fathers did and still do with their sons - giving NUFC a
constant conveyer belt of new true believers or as the market Dpt.
refer to us as; (mug) punters.
Sir Bobby was a true gentleman of the game and a man who like ourselves,
deserves the utmost respect and admiration yet he has been resorted
to looking petty and bitter following his dismissal in August 2004.
But that's what Newcastle United does to it's people - it makes them
become petty and bitter. It beats them with a stick repeatedly until
they squeal and lash out. It eats them up and spits them out without
remorse or feeling.
Then there was the flagrant disregard for supporter opinion and feeling
with the appointment of Graeme Souness. If proof was needed that the
club do not listen to it's employers than this was it. We have been
suffering since.
That was quickly followed by Craig Bellamy showing a complete lack
of respect for those of us who pay his wages, not once but twice -
just one of the bad apples that have fallen out of the box marked
"damaged goods". Restated: Newcastle United Football Club.
Just when you thought it couldn't get any worse either, two of our
very own players have a brawl in front of a full house, a vicious
punch-up in front of a crowd containing many bairns. As an uncle myself
I don't want my nephews to witness that. That's not football or a
side of the badge I want them to wear with pride.
Thankfully they weren't at the match but had they been, that would
have been the last time I would have taken them. When they are adults
they can make their own choices but I want no nephews of mine having
their emotions torn by two jumped up little arseholes earning thousands
of pounds per week who don't give a damn about those that pay their
wages (you and I) or the club they play for (our club).
What do the club do aside from hauling the disgraced pair in front
of the cameras giving Sky Sports another exclusive and helping their
ratings along? They try to win back a few hearts and minds with the
oldest trick in the book, a gimmick straight out of the idiots guide
to marketing which I believe is under lock and key in Freddy Shepherd's
office, marked down as "to be opened for emergencies only". This gimmick?
Sell them a dream or restated: Mention the name of Michael Owen to
their bum chums at Sky Sports.
"That will pull the wool over their eyes and take their minds
off of our inability to manage a football club."
Just who do they think they are? How dare they use the name of Michael
Owen and the medium that is Sky Sports to divert attention away from
the real issues that yesterday's shameful scenes further highlight.
That nobody at this football club gives a damn about you or I. That
they have no respect for us whatsoever. That they hold us in sheer
contempt and are so out of touch and ignorant they don't even mind
flouncing it either.
They are a disgrace to Newcastle fans the world over, lest we never
ever forget.
In years gone by they could get away with it but people are now waking
up to the club's MO, the propaganda, the tricks, deceit, acts of incompetence
and sheer disregard for those of us that bankroll the very existence
of OUR club. Via supporter sites like Newcastle-Online and that other
magnificent site across the browser that we are proud exists,
the sheep are deserting the flock and aren't being lead by the Shepherd
anymore.
Keep the faith, support the badge not the man and don't let the bastards
get ye doon. |
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