NOTW Ashley article! Behind Sam and we're pushing for Anelka & Brown?

[Willow]

And the article is followed up on the following page with a full page opinion article from some prick called Andy Dunn having a massive dig at Ashley and Mort for not backing Allardyce in public, when the article a page earlier said they had stopped doing so because it adds fuel to the fire... It's one thing being fickle enough to contradict yourself week on week but to do it on adjacent pages is an absolute joke. Really have to stop buying it!

 

True but thing is, with humanity, theres ALWAYS going to be idiots there to buy it and believe it 100%.

Maybe one day there'll be an idiot virus like moron flu or meat-head malaria....

 

heres hoping....

[Wullie]

I was going to mention that Andy Dun article. Apparently he's the "UK's Number One Sports Columnist."

 

Number One Mong tbh.

[Thespence]

And the article is followed up on the following page with a full page opinion article from some prick called Andy Dunn having a massive dig at Ashley and Mort for not backing Allardyce in public, when the article a page earlier said they had stopped doing so because it adds fuel to the fire... It's one thing being fickle enough to contradict yourself week on week but to do it on adjacent pages is an absolute joke. Really have to stop buying it!

 

Andy Dunn used to be Sports Editor for The People but is now a columnist for NOTW. The guy he used to employ as a columnist at The People (who incidentally is now the Sports Editor at NOTW) Paul McCarthy used to like having a pop at us as well. Different newspaper, roles reversed but the same shite.  

[Thespence]

Here is The People's Columnist Dave Kidd with his say:

 

 

ALAN SMITH was taken to hospital last weekend suffering from amnesia. There's no truth in rumours that he wandered into the infirmary, Canoe Man-style, and claimed that he had no recollection of leaving Manchester United for Newcastle.

 

Sam Allardyce, though, might fancy taking a hefty bash on the head and coming up with some similar alibi - "Doctor, order me a cab to the Reebok, I'm the manager of Bolton Wanderers."

 

The Newcastle boss is the man who craved the England job but ended up with club football's equivalent ... taking charge of a team which has won nothing since the Sixties but whose fans expect the Earth.

 

But Allardyce is no Steve McClaren. He won't be cowering under an umbrella when the heavens fall in. He's made of tougher stuff than that.

 

Don't get me wrong, I haven't got a lot of time for Allardyce. I would rather have listened to Celine Dion than watch his old Bolton teams, while his current Newcastle side aren't exactly eyeball-pleasers either.

 

Neither am I convinced that Big Sam is half as clever as he makes out he is.

 

But the Newcastle hotseat is a position you wouldn't wish on your worst enemy - so by wishing this hellish job on Alan Shearer, the Toon Army are in danger of seeing their greatest hero tarnished by failure.

 

Allardyce and Sven Goran Eriksson found themselves in similar situations last summer - appointed to the nation's two greatest under-achieving clubs, both under new, filthy-rich ownership, and both able to splash the cash on a raft of new players.

 

 

By the final whistle at St James' Park on Wednesday night, after Manchester City's 2-0 victory, the two men were a world apart.

 

 

Sven is worshipped by the Blue Moonies for taking City to the brink of the Champions League, Big Sam is contemplating the sack if Newcastle are beaten at Stoke today - and, by God, if you have ever watched one of Tony Pulis's teams, you will know that the BBC's 6pm kick-off is not going to resemble the Chelsea Flower Show.

 

 

Now it could be that Eriksson is an infinitely greater tactician than Allardyce, or a better man-manager, or simply luckier.

 

 

Or it could be that there are far more deep seated problems at Newcastle - impatience, unrealistic expectations and delusions of grandeur. A belief that because 52,000 Geordies turn up every week, they have a God-given right to a world-beating team which entertains like Brazil circa 1970.

 

Of course, the Toon Army pay their money, put in the hard motorway miles and don't deserve to be branded "vicious" by a toe-rag like Joey Barton when they boo a desperate performance.

 

 

But they do need a reality check because they are a large part of their club's problem.

 

 

I'm not convinced that Allardyce is the ideal man to turn Newcastle around and I doubt that Mike Ashley thinks so either, but I'm equally certain that changing managers every year is not a recipe for ending a trophy drought stretching back to the year man first landed on the Moon.

 

 

Allardyce has stubbornly employed players out of position. The biggest bugbear with the Geordie faithful is that cavalier winger Charles N'Zogbia has been operating at left-back while Jose Enrique - the man Big Sam paid £6million to play at left-back - languishes on the bench.

 

 

Neither has the manager done much to dispel his image as a long-ball merchant who believes football is all science, no art.

 

 

And, unlike Eriksson, Allardyce cannot claim that many of his nine buys have been successful so far. His belief that he could tame Barton has turned out to be both misguided and arrogant.

 

 

Yet this is a manager with a proven track record of success who has been in his job for less than eight months.

 

 

The answer, according to a large and voluble number of the Toon Army, is to sack Allardyce and replace him with Shearer, a man with no managerial experience but with the grandest of reputations to lose.

 

 

As a Geordie and a truly heroic Newcastle player, Shearer would be cut more slack than Allardyce or Graeme Souness, Ruud Gullit or Kenny Dalglish.

 

 

Ashley knows this and must be tempted to make the change, to give the natives what they want, as so many other owners have done in this age of lynch-mob rule.

 

 

But employing Shearer would be a hopeful, crowd-pleasing, stab in the dark and Ashley is a self-made billionaire.

 

 

You don't make billions by taking decisions like that.

 

http://www.people.co.uk/sport/kidd/

 

 

[NG32]

Dave Kidd talks ballocks.  another one of these twats who spout jizz about the club, fans and probs hasn't even been to the city or spoken to the fans.  Yes, you sit in your little office reading/listening to other peoples sounds bites and you write your little article.

 

TOSSER.

[Guest geordie01]

i agree with most of what he says in the article tbh (apart from the usual shearer ballix)

 

i dont think allardyce is the man for newcastle, nor do i see sacking him bringing any benefit to the club

[NG32]

impatience, unrealistic expectations and delusions of grandeur. A belief that because 52,000 Geordies turn up every week, they have a God-given right to a world-beating team which entertains like Brazil circa 1970.

 

 

Total Bollocks of the highest order.

 

Who is thjis wanke anyway.

 

 

[NG32]

But they do need a reality check because they are a large part of their club's problem.

 

What reallity check , most pople are annoyed at the current situtation as they can see the problems and some people seen the problems coming and predicted them.

 

Fck off mn Kidd have a word with yourself and do some proper journalism.

 

 

 

 

[brummie]

There was a similar article to this in the Telegraph this week (which I am surprised nobody posted here, tbh) (obv unless they did and I missed it)

[Yorkie]

Where's the stuff about Anelka and Brown?

[Guest Anders Rye]

Where is the Anelka bit, hasn't he almost signes for Chelsea, but no matter what I would love him here.

[Thespence]

What I find strange is Bob Cass is saying people need to get off BSA back & let him do the job on the Sunday Supplement............errrrr it yoursfooking fellow fooking scribes who are adding fuel to the fire. These fuckers write there articles calling for calm & patience on Tyneside, or members of the Toon Army while at the same time adding petrol to the fire.

[nufc4eva]

the anelka and brown bit is in the news of the world where it says ashley is going to back him by sanctioning these buys

[pinkeye]

I was going to mention that Andy Dun article. Apparently he's the "UK's Number One Sports Columnist."

 

Number One Mong tbh.

 

I read that aticle this morning and quite frankly couldn't believe what I was reading.  The amount of disrespect that is shown to Newcastle United and the fans of our club by National journalists is unbelievable.

 

 

[nufc4eva]

aye I read that as well pinkeye he comes across as a right obnoxious wanka like

[Thespence]

THE MUCH TALKED ABOUT ANDY DUNN ARTICLE

 

PHONEY ASH IS PLAYING WRONG TUNE

MIKE ASHLEY is easily Britain's answer to the late Howard Hughes. A recluse.

 

So said the compilers of the annual Rich List, since when the publicity-shy Ashley has stretched black and white nylon over his belly and been seen in virtually every bar in the Bigg Market, virtually every away end in the Premier League, on virtually every supporters' bus heading out of Toon.

 

Some recluse.

 

We've seen less of the Spice Girls.

 

It might go down well with the thirsty masses, who can sniff out a free pint from a thousand yards, but it just helps make Newcastle United an even bigger laughing stock. As if it needed help.

 

Before every away game, Sam Allardyce must look to the rafters and his heart must sink.

 

Apparently, Ashley has given his manager total support.

 

CRYING

 

But if he wants to show it, the billionaire should climb down from the cheap seats and stand shoulder-to-shoulder with Allardyce.

 

If only metaphorically speaking.

 

Because quite simply, Newcastle is a club crying out for leadership. Strong, authoritative leadership. In the boardroom, at the training ground, on the pitch.

 

It is a ship that needs a captain at the helm, not carousing below decks.

 

Ashley's public displays of solidarity with the fans — whether it is getting the ale in Quayside, slumming it on a charabanc to Wigan, bouncing up anddown in the visitors' pen at the Stadium of Light — is tokenism at best, phoney at worst.

 

After all, not many can recall him donning the stripes prior to buying the club.

 

Not many heard him dissecting a performance over a Newcy Brown.

 

With his chief executive Chris Mort, Ashley needs to provide clear direction, to confirm his allegiance to Allardyce, to dispel rumours that his ownership willbeshort-lived, to map out a master-plan.

 

It is this lack of communication, this lack of clarity that has made Ashley such an unpopular figure in the City.

 

Of course, it is not only Ashley — whose sanctioning of a bid for Wes Brown was at least a positive sign — who needs to lead from the front.

 

Allardyce's less than adventurous tactics have failed to produce the sort of results he achieved at Bolton. And the efforts of the players he signed in the previous transfer window have seriously dented his reputation as one of the shrewdest operators in the market.

 

DISASTER

 

But there are two reasons why he should remain in charge.

 

Firstly, as the previous regime grew ever more trigger-happy, the gun merely homed in on one target...the foot.

 

And secondly, you don't employ a manager with such a distinguished reputation and boot him after six months even though the threat of relegation is still a remote one.

 

OK, Newcastle will probably not win anything. But they haven't won anything since the year dot.

 

So even defeat at Stoke today will hardly rank as an unparalleled disaster.

 

Ashley is unlikely to be back from holiday in time for this evening's game at the Britannia Stadium, depriving the travelling ranks of one of its number.

 

Which is fine.

 

Because the Toon Army doesn't need another celebrity footsoldier — it needs a general.

[Colos Short and Curlies]

Funny how there have been a number of stories saynig the same thing about Ashley (even that tit Lawro got in on the act yesterday).

 

Yet not one has bothered to look up the early stories where Ashley makes it clear that he has bought the lcub to be a fan and not to get bogged down in the day to day running.

[Thespence]

yet not one has bothered to look up the early stories where Ashley makes it clear that he has bought the lcub to be a fan and not to get bogged down in the day to day running.

 

Come on SP60H, most of these dimwits call Mike the chairman & Mort job title various depending what trash you read.

[Guest Knightrider]

Fighting talk, i like it.

 

he's just brushing them off like nothing.

 

 

 

He's doing the right thing, no need to make a crisis out of things.

 

The club needs that type of leadership in my opinion.

[Happy Face]

THE MUCH TALKED ABOUT ANDY DUNN ARTICLE

 

PHONEY ASH IS PLAYING WRONG TUNE

MIKE ASHLEY is easily Britain's answer to the late Howard Hughes. A recluse.

 

So said the compilers of the annual Rich List, since when the publicity-shy Ashley has stretched black and white nylon over his belly and been seen in virtually every bar in the Bigg Market, virtually every away end in the Premier League, on virtually every supporters' bus heading out of Toon.

 

Some recluse.

 

We've seen less of the Spice Girls.

 

It might go down well with the thirsty masses, who can sniff out a free pint from a thousand yards, but it just helps make Newcastle United an even bigger laughing stock. As if it needed help.

 

Before every away game, Sam Allardyce must look to the rafters and his heart must sink.

 

Apparently, Ashley has given his manager total support.

 

CRYING

 

But if he wants to show it, the billionaire should climb down from the cheap seats and stand shoulder-to-shoulder with Allardyce.

 

If only metaphorically speaking.

 

Because quite simply, Newcastle is a club crying out for leadership. Strong, authoritative leadership. In the boardroom, at the training ground, on the pitch.

 

It is a ship that needs a captain at the helm, not carousing below decks.

 

Ashley's public displays of solidarity with the fans — whether it is getting the ale in Quayside, slumming it on a charabanc to Wigan, bouncing up anddown in the visitors' pen at the Stadium of Light — is tokenism at best, phoney at worst.

 

After all, not many can recall him donning the stripes prior to buying the club.

 

Not many heard him dissecting a performance over a Newcy Brown.

 

With his chief executive Chris Mort, Ashley needs to provide clear direction, to confirm his allegiance to Allardyce, to dispel rumours that his ownership willbeshort-lived, to map out a master-plan.

 

It is this lack of communication, this lack of clarity that has made Ashley such an unpopular figure in the City.

 

Of course, it is not only Ashley — whose sanctioning of a bid for Wes Brown was at least a positive sign — who needs to lead from the front.

 

Allardyce's less than adventurous tactics have failed to produce the sort of results he achieved at Bolton. And the efforts of the players he signed in the previous transfer window have seriously dented his reputation as one of the shrewdest operators in the market.

 

DISASTER

 

But there are two reasons why he should remain in charge.

 

Firstly, as the previous regime grew ever more trigger-happy, the gun merely homed in on one target...the foot.

 

And secondly, you don't employ a manager with such a distinguished reputation and boot him after six months even though the threat of relegation is still a remote one.

 

OK, Newcastle will probably not win anything. But they haven't won anything since the year dot.

 

So even defeat at Stoke today will hardly rank as an unparalleled disaster.

 

Ashley is unlikely to be back from holiday in time for this evening's game at the Britannia Stadium, depriving the travelling ranks of one of its number.

 

Which is fine.

 

Because the Toon Army doesn't need another celebrity footsoldier — it needs a general.

 

Aye, I passed that one round the coach down.  The first two colums were woeful, the common sense 3rd column was like a qvc bit of diamonique in the shit.