Kevin Doocey (Newcastle Utd fan)
1) We have an owner that won’t speak to fans.
2) We have a manager that isn’t capable of doing his job.
3) We have a backroom team that are so incompetent it’s not funny.
4) We have no hope as a football club if we continue this way.
Mike Ashley has littered the stadium with advertising for his cheap sportswear company. He doesn’t pay a penny for this advertising. This alone, is criminal.
This is the same Mike Ashley that paid £3m to say “F**k Off, PK” in the infamous Goal III movie. Yet when it comes to sanctioning funds to recruit new players, he will, and has plenty times in the past – scuppered a move over half a million quid or less.
Newcastle fans, including myself, want our football club back. We want a club to be proud of. We want to have a desire to compete at the very least, from board level to pitch-side. We don’t want to be a cheap advertising vessel for a tacky sports brand which has been exposed as employing people in foreign countries for a pittance. Slave labour, even.
This is where the protests come in. Nothing will change at this football club until Mike Ashley leaves. There will never be trust between the board (which has admitted in court to intentionally misleading, and lying to Newcastle fans on a consistent basis) and supporters ever again. This is a loveless, stress-inducing marriage, as West Ham’s Karren Brady so rightly put it.
We are a crossroads and there is a decision to be made, but I know for a fact that if John Carver is given the full-time role in the summer, it will be the end for many Newcastle United supporters, including myself.
As the worst team in the Premier League at the moment with no real purpose, we would like to have an owner that likes the club for a start, and secondly, wants to see happier days on Tyneside. Too much to ask?
But Newcastle fans are fickle, aren’t they?