lies in the future.
may be dwarfed by what
be,
know what that future may
None of us
agree that, in the same way
but we can all
have managed to make the
that Cameron and Clegg
Labour a whole lot worse,
fiasco left behind by New
ip have been even more
6 years of Ashley’s ownersh
the
inistration.
us than the Shepherd adm
disastro
wing the end
standards, the period follo
By any
e farcical than
2/2013 has been even mor
of the 201
appointment of a
No new players and the
usual at SJP.
abuse as
redited figure of scorn and
contemptible, disc
endering
l has had the effect of eng
Director of Footbal
of sympathy for Pardew
a rekindling of the flame
out with his incompetent
that was effectively snuffed
out of jail card from
misuse of his 5 player get
ever, tough as it may be to
February onwards. How
belief that whoever pulls
pt this is the case, it is my
acce
r we end up in the
k and white shirt, whereve
on a blac
s of back room
whatever happens in term
league and
are all complete
ments during 2013/2014,
staff appoint
irrelevant
as near as damn it utterly
red herrings and
United.
re wellbeing of Newcastle
to the ultimate futu
e
ed before and it doesn’t scar
Relegation has happen
ng
thought of Ashley remaini
me; what scares me is the
FROM...
10 9
“
AT THE
IN THE SAME WAY THAT BOB CROW ATION
THE FORM
BIG MEETING CALLED FOR
THE
OF A NEW PARTY TO REPRESENT ABOUR
SES NOW THAT L
WORKING CLAS
IF THE
IS FINISHED, IT SEEMS TO ME AS ’ TRUST
ORTERS
NEWCASTLE UNITED SUPP
HAVE HAD THEIR DAY.
bury
ch is why I urge us all to
in charge of our club, whi
s, then get involved
and accept olive branche
hatchets
to help topple this terrible
in a mass movement of fans
re we lose our club forever.
regime, befo
t can be done to bring it
So, that is my position; wha
131 years old;
I said before, this club is
about? Well, as
game and
we need to play the long
history tells us that
icism
d. Perhaps the biggest crit
we need to be organise
has
fans of Newcastle United
we have of ourselves as
us
lting media stereotype of
nothing to do with the insu
anding immediate success
impatient cry-babies dem
as
and laugh at that farcical
or else (look at our history
e found it impossible
, but the fact that we hav
opinion)
self-interest,
s to work together. Ego,
over the year
ns have nullified
and whispering campaig
back-biting
y
’ve tried to work tirelessl
all those supporters who
then and
in the past, but that was
for positive change
s of
passed when photograph
this is now. The time has
sfy
NUST are enough to sati
Steve Harmison joining
ng our support. To suggest
the desire for change amo
ST do tremendous
gestures, and I’m aware NU
such
the right direction or,
munity work, are steps in
com
fluke
forget all about this if we
worse, that our fans will
day, is patronising,
Man city on the opening
a point at
g
inaccurate. Ignore the smu
insulting and downright
as Secret
claim this to be the case;
Twitterati who
e for action.
Affair said, this is the tim
In the same way that Bob
Crow at the Big Meeting
called for the formation
of a new party to represen
t the
working classes now that
Labour is finished, it seem
s
to me as if the Newcastle
United Supporters’ Trust
have had the