Wullie

Fucking mint. As I was saying the other day, we have good players and getting the spark back into the club is half the battle - Keegan's presence alone managed that. The players looked like a massive weight had been lifted off their shoulders for the first time in a long time. Only Stoke it may be, but this time last year we got slaughtered by a team in the same position when we had 10 men. Tonight we simply stepped up a gear upon losing a man and played some superb stuff second half. We've played worse teams than Stoke this season and looked woeful.

I'm fucking astonished. I had a feeling it was going to happen since his "interview" the other day but I'm still stunned by it. Going to the match has been a chore for far too long now. This'll put the spark back into the crowd and hopefully the players and that's half the battle won. Sentimental, yes, but this is as excited as I've been for a long time. He's never failed in club football (failed at City, my arse! He did a brilliant job for them) and he knows good players.

Cheers for the info, even if it does turn out to be bollocks. By "prodigal son", do you mean one of our ex-players? Probably a limo stealing one.

Oh cheer up Dave, you're bringing my mood down. Keegan in! £20m over three year btw? Shut up.

He'd also have an immense amount of contacts and also is a well respected bloke to players too, seeing as he's won it all with juve and is still about 40. Tbh I don't care anymore, I'd happily take Didier or Gerard right now altho I like the idea of Deschamps better He's hardly won it all with Juve. Edit: oh as a player? Gotcha.

Is there a source for NUFC's rebuttal?

Houllier's transfers at Liverpool where often highly shit. He worries me. Indeed. Lyon and Liverpool, he took over good sides with good players. Can he buy well enough from our position? Hmm.

Nut'll be happy.

He actually has too, right across the board. http://www.oddschecker.com/football/football-specials/next-newcastle-manager/next-permanent-manager

I've slept on it. I still want Keegan. I'd take Houllier though, just a question of can he get us going again and quickly?

Has it been mentioned that Hughes is trying to sign Amdy Faye?

Pretty pathetic dig at the .com lads in that case. Does he think he's better than them cos he writes fictional tales for a two-bit local rag? Tosser.

What does he say about the telephone man? I know, but I really don't want to look at him/listen to him.

See? Now you're getting into it!

Whatever we said, whatever we did, we didn't mean it, we just want you back for good. (Want you back, want you back, yeah we want you back for goo-ood!) I like the sound of this. "It only takes a minute Kev, to ring that phone, to rinnngg that phhoonne" [/it only takes a minute girl] You've spoiled it now.

Clemett's a proper odious little inbred twat.

One thing that makes me think Keegan could be the man is simply that we need the spark back. There's no way, for example, Hughes would ignite any passion in the supporters. We need something to tear us out of our apathy first and foremost.

Have a listen to yourself you extremely pathetic ungrateful individual. Your getting off on slagging off a man who turned Newcastle United around from a sinking ship of 17th to 3rd, 4th, 5th Champions League football and consistent European football qualification managed Newcastle United to its best EVER points total of 71 points in our Premiership history joint with Keegan's 71 points that came 2nd not only that but a man that loved this club more then anyone I mean the man is 74 years old where was he last Tuesday night at Newcastle United's reserve game his love for our club despite how he has treated him is quite unbelievable. I don't know where the f**k have you been for the last 5 years? and where the f**k were you during the 5 years before Sir Bobby Robson? But I suggest you go get some perspective before spouting your mouth off. One thing is for sure you will be waiting a VERY LONG TIME till Newcastle United hit the heights of Sir Bobby Robson's 3rd, 4th, 5th and consistent European football again a very very long time. Give your head a shake man for God's sake.

First season with Man City he took them up with a record breaking points total and scored 125 (125!) goals in the process. The next season he took them to 9th in the Premiership. If someone did that now who wasn't Kevin Keegan, the media would be jizzing all over him. They would indeed. The fact as I can see is that he saved us twice when we were f&&&&d. Why not a third? Its a track record of success with us. I realize that there were no trophies but 2nd in the PL would be a great place to be right now. Apparently not, he's a loser. To be honest, I genuinely don't have a clue if Keegan could do it now but I do absolutely hate seeing Newcastle fans slag the man off. Nowt like being grateful is there? I don't think people are being ungrateful, just putting a touch of reality in the mix with all the romance. I'd rather remember him for the manager he was for us rather than him come back here and get us around a Uefa up place. No, some people do just slag him off. Not tarring the people who don't want him back all with the same brush by any means.

he also spent alot of money, all 3 times. No more than any other club has spent to reach the summit of the Premiership or in Man City's case to get out of the second tier and into mid-table safety and European football. Everton have spent a fortune recently, Spurs have too. That's what a manager needs to do to achieve something. People talk as if KK spending money was a bad thing. I'm sure Man City fans didn't mind seeing the likes of Anelka play for them when only a few years before they were in the old 2nd division and who without KK would probably still be in the championship today or just another mackems, up and down. What Everton fortune? Yakubu apart who has cost more than £8million? Andy Johnson? Perhaps. But that was some 3 years ago, they've spent less than any other team in the top half this year than every other team except for Blackburn. It was a season and a half! Same summer we signed Martins. They spent in the summer too. He's doing a fine job though is Moyes.

First season with Man City he took them up with a record breaking points total and scored 125 (125!) goals in the process. The next season he took them to 9th in the Premiership. If someone did that now who wasn't Kevin Keegan, the media would be jizzing all over him. They would indeed. The fact as I can see is that he saved us twice when we were f&&&&d. Why not a third? Its a track record of success with us. I realize that there were no trophies but 2nd in the PL would be a great place to be right now. Apparently not, he's a loser. To be honest, I genuinely don't have a clue if Keegan could do it now but I do absolutely hate seeing Newcastle fans slag the man off. Nowt like being grateful is there?

he also spent alot of money, all 3 times. No more than any other club has spent to reach the summit of the Premiership or in Man City's case to get out of the second tier and into mid-table safety and European football. Everton have spent a fortune recently, Spurs have too. That's what a manager needs to do to achieve something. People talk as if KK spending money was a bad thing. I'm sure Man City fans didn't mind seeing the likes of Anelka play for them when only a few years before they were in the old 2nd division and who without KK would probably still be in the championship today or just another mackems, up and down. What Everton fortune? Yakubu apart who has cost more than £8million? Andy Johnson?

Sam's problem was that we were/are shite.

First season with Man City he took them up with a record breaking points total and scored 125 (125!) goals in the process. The next season he took them to 9th in the Premiership. If someone did that now who wasn't Kevin Keegan, the media would be jizzing all over him.

Keegan is a born & proven managerial loser. We know this, the man will crack when the pressure cooks. Blackburn finished 6th last season, playing good football and reached the FA Cup semi-final beating some good teams in the process and narrowly getting beaten by a side assembled for atleast 10 times the amount of Blackburns. What a load of absolute cobblers.