Superior Acuña Posted March 7, 2016 Share Posted March 7, 2016 Can someone paste that please? I don't want to give The Sun hits. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
54 Posted March 7, 2016 Share Posted March 7, 2016 It was an honour for me to play for Newcastle. Not just because I was a local lad and a fan. It was an honour to play for a set of supporters with so much passion and pride and hope and desire. I wouldn’t have changed that for more titles and medals. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mick Posted March 7, 2016 Share Posted March 7, 2016 Can someone paste that please? I don't want to give The Sun hits. Ten games to go? Newcastle fans can’t stomach another 90 mins of this rubbish Alan Shearer runs the rule over the sorry situation on Tyneside By ALAN SHEARER, SunSport columnist 22:30, 6 Mar 2016 THE MOST shameful slur anyone can possibly aim at a professional player is that they simply don’t care about their club. But today that can be aimed at 90 per cent of Newcastle’s players. Their pathetic performance against Bournemouth proved it once and for all. Was I surprised by it? I shouldn’t have been after the dross that has been served up by the team this season. But still I expected so much more in a must-win game. Bournemouth arrived at St James’ Park knowing they were still in a relegation fight — and rolled their sleeves up. They came with an attitude that they were simply not going to be beaten, not going to go down. They put their bodies on the line with every single player pulling in the same direction. Not so their opponents. I think in Newcastle’s side only midfielder Jonjo Shelvey can escape criticism. Then the manager Steve McClaren comes out after the game and tells us the positive is that there are ten games left. I would suggest that’s actually a negative, because many fans can’t take another 90 minutes of this, never mind ten of them. They have Leicester up next — and having witnessed another superb display from them on Saturday in winning against Watford — I think boss Claudio Ranieri’s men could rack up a cricket score. Newcastle owner Mike Ashley is a very wealthy businessman but surely even he can see that this model is not — and will not — work at the club. They have spent £80million on players this season and, at the moment, Shelvey looks like the only good investment. The person who never seems to get a mention in this whole mess is chief scout Graham Carr. He holds a lot of power in terms of recruiting and selling players — and has quite frankly made a pig’s ear of it. We keep hearing statements of intent from the club, shame we never get one on the pitch. Most recently on Saturday the players issued one as to how they were behind their manager. Well if that was playing for their manager, goodness knows what will happen when they down tools. Quite simply they are not playing for McClaren or the Newcastle fans. Steve was very lucky to get this job after overseeing Derby’s implosion last season. For some time now he has looked powerless to stop a slide into the Championship. Because that is where I am CONVINCED my club is heading now. And don’t believe that the size of the club means they will be bouncing back any time soon either. They could go right through the Championship as well, because there are barely any characters in this side who would fight to get the club back up. They simply do not care. They have betrayed a club, a city, a community, with their lacklustre and totally heartless performances. They may even be responsible for losing a generation of fans. When I joined this club in 1996, it was everyone’s second-favourite team. Fans from outside of Newcastle loved the passion around the club, the feeling and the way we played football. Now everything around it is just negative. The club even alienates a media that wants them to do well by having unedifying rows and bust-ups. Quite simply, to save themselves Newcastle are going to have to do better than Sunderland between now and the end of the season. I don’t see that happening. You watch Sunderland under Sam Allardyce and you see a team that wants to stay in this division. A team that wants to fight for their club. They will meet at St James’ Park in a fortnight, in what could be a winner-stays-up clash. It is now five years since Newcastle last beat their local rivals — and Sunderland have won the last six meetings. I expect them to make that seven. There is simply no evidence that this Newcastle team are suddenly going to turn the corner and find a performance anywhere near worthy of a shirt graced by so many great players down the years. It was an honour for me to play for Newcastle. Not just because I was a local lad and a fan. It was an honour to play for a set of supporters with so much passion and pride and hope and desire. I wouldn’t have changed that for more titles and medals. I would have liked to have got some for the club and we came mighty close — but it was still a fantastic time. A time when the club was the heart of the community and had players who wanted what those fans wanted. Not now, not any more, and that is shameful, just shameful. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Geordie Posted March 7, 2016 Share Posted March 7, 2016 Big Al Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
nufcjb Posted March 7, 2016 Share Posted March 7, 2016 Well done. Legend. Should let the players, McClaren and the whole stinking board read that. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AyeDubbleYoo Posted March 7, 2016 Share Posted March 7, 2016 Very surprised to hear him say something so definite, but he's right. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mouldy_uk Posted March 7, 2016 Share Posted March 7, 2016 Well Said Al Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Howaythetoon Posted March 7, 2016 Share Posted March 7, 2016 He looked angry as fuck on MOTD the other night. If only a handful of players had his professionalism and mentality we wouldn't be in the mess we are in. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
High Five o Posted March 7, 2016 Share Posted March 7, 2016 Legend! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hakka Posted March 7, 2016 Share Posted March 7, 2016 He's let rip there and said the bits I always wondered why he would leave out. Fair play Al! We need more legends coming out like this giving the whole club a real bashing. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Norseman Posted March 7, 2016 Share Posted March 7, 2016 Shearer Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
timeEd32 Posted March 7, 2016 Share Posted March 7, 2016 It's hard to imagine anyone remotely close to Shearer's quality ever playing for NUFC again. Depressing as fuck. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leazes_End_Mag Posted March 7, 2016 Share Posted March 7, 2016 Bang on that article. Shearer has absolutely nailed it. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foluwashola Posted March 7, 2016 Share Posted March 7, 2016 It's hard to imagine anyone remotely close to Shearer's quality ever playing for NUFC again. Depressing as fuck. How we need someone like him in the dressing room. He'd be banging the wankers' skulls together. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ally Posted March 7, 2016 Share Posted March 7, 2016 Shearer in "understands the club" shock horror. Legend Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest neesy111 Posted April 9, 2016 Share Posted April 9, 2016 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dinho lad Posted April 9, 2016 Share Posted April 9, 2016 Great picture. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heron Posted April 9, 2016 Share Posted April 9, 2016 I used to say God about Shearer but now that is reserved for Sir Bob. What a legend though. Cannot believe people genuinely put someone like Ben Arfa in that bracket. Sometimes this forum is laughable. #CueCriticismFromEveryone Sent from my SM-G800F using Tapatalk Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronaldo Posted April 9, 2016 Share Posted April 9, 2016 Nobody thinks he belongs in the category, man. Apart from 1 or 2 dafties. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Holloway Posted April 10, 2016 Share Posted April 10, 2016 Yeah the God thread is a bit of a cringey title Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hanshithispantz Posted April 10, 2016 Share Posted April 10, 2016 It's probably the most obvious joke on the forum like Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Holloway Posted April 10, 2016 Share Posted April 10, 2016 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Posted April 10, 2016 Share Posted April 10, 2016 Hatem like Shearer is forever in Drogba's shadow so it's moot anyway. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Interpolic Posted April 10, 2016 Share Posted April 10, 2016 Wtf, "I used to call Shearer God, now I call Robson God, can't believe you's call Ben Arfa God in your thread title" ffs Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kaizero Posted April 10, 2016 Share Posted April 10, 2016 Wtf, "I used to call Shearer God, now I call Robson God, can't believe you's call Ben Arfa God in your thread title" ffs Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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