M4

Nah, he's probably also desperate for Keegan to be right here, and that the club doesn't see any of the money... because that's what is more important

Chomp

As if that wasn't your honest opinion.

The people who side against Keegan are either too young or too stupid to appreciate what he did here when he was allowed to choose his own players.

There is no other explantion for some of the guff in this thread.

And those who will unconditionaly defend him are just burrying their head in the sand. Refusing to acknowledge he walked out on the club twice and decided to be part of the problem in a season where we got relegated.

Say what you like about the timing of his exit but ultimately Keegan was just an employee of the club, he can do what he likes and owes Newcastle United nothing.

I don't think it was unrealistic to expect more from him. It also isn't accurate to portray this as any other club/manager situation. Especially when Keegan himself was the first one to always go on about how special the circumstances were.

Yes, the Keegan party line - and the independent Premier League panel party line.

I guess it's a good thing that some can find such solace in KK being 'right', whilst the club then had to endure Ashley, Kinnear and relegation.

left him looking like a lame duck [...] leaving him looking like an idiot time and time and time again

Yes, certainly not denying that played a big part in his decision. How his morals would be perceived was more important to him. Even though the truth would have come out anyway, as he had all the cards to make sure it would.

It's a travesty some would side with an obese billionaire...

fucking hell.

especially when said man was proven to have been correct in everything he did in an employment tribunal.

despite the damning evidence against Ashley and co heard by an independent panel - and that independent panel's damning judgement against Ashley and co in KK's favour.

A judgement that confirmed what people suspected of Ashley and co, but also meant that Keegan's decision for the club that 'means so much to him' was to leave it in the lurch and solely in the hands of those people.

Some utter cretins in this thread like.

 

How anyone can side with Ashley...

As always: no one is.

http://www.newcastle-online.org/nufcforum/index.php/topic,64823.0.html

 

Just incase anybody out there needs reminding.

 

5.2 The Club admitted to the Tribunal that it repeatedly and intentionally misled the press, public and the fans of Newcastle United.

 

That also means his decision was to leave the club/team sportingly in the lurch and solely in the hands of those people

Was more intent of clearing himself, really. The same truth would have outed eventually and he would have been backed, no doubt. But no, misplaced 'morals' and shortermism prevailed.

In Keegan's position, would you have worked for the club under the same circumstances?

 

I'm not a manager, so who cares. But I hoped he would have felt compelled to put the club first if that's what he really felt.

 

Perhaps he though the lies and contempt shown to us fans by our wonderful owner and his cronies needed to be exposed? Is that not putting the good of the club first?

It's the kind of shortermism thinking he knows all too much about.

Slazenger

In Keegan's position, would you have worked for the club under the same circumstances?

I'm not a manager, so who cares. But I hoped he would have felt compelled to put the club first if that's what he really felt.

he wishes Newcastle well (again)

Hooray for Nufc, then.

His words about how much he supposedly cares for the club mean nothing. We also know that.

Sounders must have gotten really unlucky drawing for them... All the other new Adidas shirts look very good.

There's a good chance that he is right, we all know that.

I love Keegan but I really hope he's wrong on this. One thing is for sure though, he knows what they're like far, far better than any of us do so his opinions hold quite a bit of sway with me.

He had his chance to do or say anything about it a long time ago. I resent him having anything to say about the club now, even just a soundbite like this.

wasn't Mascherano already at Liverpool though?

Yeah.

David Wetherall. That guy that scored the header for Bradford on the last day vs Liverpool.

Not so sure what the goalkeeper did wrong. The defender takes almost all responsibility for not dealing with that ball IMO.

 

Yep. No way you go in swinging your leg like that if you don't clear it.

One of those where we don't really know who messed up most. All depends if the keeper clearly called for it or not. If he didn't and just appeared as thingie was about to clear then that's not good.

Shearer: "I know Oba. I played with him at Newcastle"

... no you didn't

(or how to get a load of hits on your twitter site)

Hey, don't shoot the messenger.

WayneRoutledge

Important win.. Now hello Newcastle #imback

http://img97.imageshack.us/img97/2378/pressconference11.jpg

Those boots 

Blllleeeuuuuuurgggghhh