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Robbo Robson15 Sep 08, 12:13 PM

I've tried loads of times to begin this blog about the latest goings on at Newcastle United but you know what - it's impossible to know where to start. so I'm going to go to the basics - the Toon Army.

Now, I know a lot of Geordies - and most of 'em have a healthy sense of humour. But put 'em in a barcode outfit and stand 'em on the terraces and they go mental.

First of all, let's get it clear. Sam Allardyce's reign produced deathly dull football but the team weren't doing much worse than normal in terms of points.

When Big Sam was shown the door and Ashley consulted his tea leaves to get a replacement, there wasn't a thinking person in the whole country who didn't think that Keegan's return was going to lead to disaster.

He is football's version of the Runaway Bride, although I reckon Julia Roberts has more underarm hair and is less prone to a hissy-fit.

Just to prove that this was a decision motivated entirely by sentiment, the chairman popped into his own shop and bought a jersey with "King Kev" on the back and sank lager in the stands like a natural.

 

Now this is a bloke who's a billionaire - a business success story and some. He gets up to Newcastle and his brain and belly turn to jelly.

On the one hand Ashley plays the "I'm one of you" card - on the other hand he tries to play the businessman.

It's like Del Boy Trotter has bought the gaff and employed Rodney and Trigger to help him out.

No-one really ever bought the "man of the people" act and now it turns out his true loyalty is to the mates he brought in, and not the club. And that's his biggest misjudgement.

He's not one of the boys no matter how many XXXXXXXL footy shirts he buys, no matter how many pints he sinks, no matter how many times he sings the Blaydon Bloody Races. But Keegan is.

Keegan's exactly like your average Toonite - passionate, over-expectant, a bit irrational. He loves attacking free-flowing stuff - he's all for 4-3 rather than 1-0.

And he nearly did it before. He nearly fulfilled the dream. To be honest, Kev, we'd all have "loved it" if you had.

So Ashley has drawn on the sloppy sentiment of the fans without understanding the true meaning of what he did. And now they feel betrayed. He's turned from the Angel Gabriel into Judas in a few short months.

And Kev's walked (obviously straight out of the door across the Tyne without getting his two-inch heels wet if you believe the Gallowgate End).

 

In a nutshell, what Ashley didn't get was that if you want to stay on the side of the believers, then it's best if you don't undermine God. He's committed blasphemy, which was why he didn't show up on Saturday to the Hull game (Mind you, neither did the team and who can blame them?).

The thing I really don't get - and maybe I'm jealous cos we Teessiders learnt long ago that we should be grateful for what we get - is where all this massive expectation comes from.

I mean, Newcastle United have won precisely nowt for nigh on 50 years. That's diddly, nada, zilch. In that same period the FA Cup has been won by Sunderland, Southampton, Portsmouth, West Ham, Spurs...

The League Cup has been won by Boro, Villa, Leicester, Norwich, Oxford Bleeding United, Wolves, even the League somehow found its way into the hands of Leeds, Derby, Forest, Villa, Everton.

In all that time, Newcastle have done nothing. So where does this inner-belief come from?

When a woman says "he ruined me life", you've got to ask whether that woman ought to have more important things to worry about.

I mean, I love Middlesbrough football club but I don't think Bryan Robson made me suicidal - he just made me bloody miserable for a bit.

 

Ashley's put the 'For Sale' sign up but you've got to ask who's going to want to fork out money to get this sort of treatment from a group of fans living on virtually non-existent past glories?

Ashley put 250 million quid into the club and it's still struggling financially. That aside, Ashley has been a disaster but until the fans get a grip on reality it's going to be an impossible job for anyone.

We seem to be saying this about Newcastle every three months but whoever comes in now needs to be given time, lots of time, be it owner, chairman, manager, director of football, or even tea boy.

What's more likely to happen is that there'll be a glorious sentimental cartel of great Geordies from popular culture who'll form a showbiz take-over.

Just imagine Alan Shearer, Mark Knopfler, Sting, and Brian Ferry singing Brothers in Arms as they mount a podium at the centre of St. James' Park, while the chairmen Ant 'n' Dec look on with pints in their hands and pride in their hearts.

Actually that won't happen cos it might work. Let's be realistic: what does a prospective buyer need to be successful?

They need to be:

(A) Local

(:ph34r: Thicker-skinned than Simon Cowell

© Richer than one of me Nan's Christmas puddings

(D) Maybe a bit delusional

(E) Probably a bit stupid

Well, there's only one person that fits the bill if you ask me - Heather Mills, your time has come.

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/robborobson/200...g_the_mike.html

 

Keegan's a quitter - check

Ashley wears a strip - check

Bonus points for xxxxxxxl reference - check

Ashley likes a drink - check

preference for 4-3 - check

Religious Messiah, Judas walk on water bollocks - check

Delusional - check

won nowt in 50 years - check

The fans are too impatient for anyone to succeed - check

Ant and Dec/Sting reference - check

 

Obviously this Robbo is a dipshit smog monster, but that has to be a record for stereotypical banality.

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Couldn't he just have written "them" instead of 'em? :ph34r:

That's the problem with the internet, it gives everyone an equal voice regardless of how stupid they are. It's probably not too far from exactly how loads of people view the current situation though. Despite its being a truly dreadful piece of writing in every sense.

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;)

 

I wouldn't have posted some random bloggers opinion.

 

This is BBC impartiality at it's license fee subsidised best.

 

:ph34r:

I read your comments first then the 'article' but I just assumed it had been pointed out to you by someone. Then I clocked the link. That Robbo Robson is shit (I realise his stuff is meant to be tongue-in-cheek) but that is unbelievably bad.

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The problem is when your club is in a mess anyone can have a go.

Aye, it takes a special talent to do that and still look stupider than one of the shell-suited school kids riding his scooter in front of Sky Sports' cameras at SJP though.

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The problem is when your club is in a mess anyone can have a go.

Aye, it takes a special talent to do that and still look stupider than one of the shell-suited school kids riding his scooter in front of Sky Sports' cameras at SJP though.

 

He will only look stupid to us, most readers will lap that up.

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The problem is when your club is in a mess anyone can have a go.

Aye, it takes a special talent to do that and still look stupider than one of the shell-suited school kids riding his scooter in front of Sky Sports' cameras at SJP though.

 

He will only look stupid to us, most readers will lap that up.

He'll have hit his target audience then.

I already made the same point as you I think anyway, but it sums up the average modern fan as well if they think that's good craic. To paraphrase Oz Osbourne, that piece has more holes in it than Newcastle's defence.

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This is a 'robbo robson' article.

 

It is actually intended to be light hearted and a joke - he isn't a real person (he has a back story about being coach for a pub team at his local, in boro) and hes never written a serious article. Every week or month an article is written about the big stories of the month, in a jokey way.

Can't be taken seriously and I thought reading it you'd get that impression,

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This is a 'robbo robson' article.

 

It is actually intended to be light hearted and a joke - he isn't a real person (he has a back story about being coach for a pub team at his local, in boro) and hes never written a serious article. Every week or month an article is written about the big stories of the month, in a jokey way.

Can't be taken seriously and I thought reading it you'd get that impression,

Nowt gets past you mate.

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This is a 'robbo robson' article.

 

It is actually intended to be light hearted and a joke - he isn't a real person (he has a back story about being coach for a pub team at his local, in boro) and hes never written a serious article. Every week or month an article is written about the big stories of the month, in a jokey way.

Can't be taken seriously and I thought reading it you'd get that impression,

 

You mean he's cleverly satirizing lazy journalism?

 

I thought satire was supposed to be funny.

 

..and original if possible.

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Robbo Robson15 Sep 08, 12:13 PM

I've tried loads of times to begin this blog about the latest goings on at Newcastle United but you know what - it's impossible to know where to start. so I'm going to go to the basics - the Toon Army.

Now, I know a lot of Geordies - and most of 'em have a healthy sense of humour. But put 'em in a barcode outfit and stand 'em on the terraces and they go mental.

First of all, let's get it clear. Sam Allardyce's reign produced deathly dull football but the team weren't doing much worse than normal in terms of points.

When Big Sam was shown the door and Ashley consulted his tea leaves to get a replacement, there wasn't a thinking person in the whole country who didn't think that Keegan's return was going to lead to disaster.

He is football's version of the Runaway Bride, although I reckon Julia Roberts has more underarm hair and is less prone to a hissy-fit.

Just to prove that this was a decision motivated entirely by sentiment, the chairman popped into his own shop and bought a jersey with "King Kev" on the back and sank lager in the stands like a natural.

 

Now this is a bloke who's a billionaire - a business success story and some. He gets up to Newcastle and his brain and belly turn to jelly.

On the one hand Ashley plays the "I'm one of you" card - on the other hand he tries to play the businessman.

It's like Del Boy Trotter has bought the gaff and employed Rodney and Trigger to help him out.

No-one really ever bought the "man of the people" act and now it turns out his true loyalty is to the mates he brought in, and not the club. And that's his biggest misjudgement.

He's not one of the boys no matter how many XXXXXXXL footy shirts he buys, no matter how many pints he sinks, no matter how many times he sings the Blaydon Bloody Races. But Keegan is.

Keegan's exactly like your average Toonite - passionate, over-expectant, a bit irrational. He loves attacking free-flowing stuff - he's all for 4-3 rather than 1-0.

And he nearly did it before. He nearly fulfilled the dream. To be honest, Kev, we'd all have "loved it" if you had.

So Ashley has drawn on the sloppy sentiment of the fans without understanding the true meaning of what he did. And now they feel betrayed. He's turned from the Angel Gabriel into Judas in a few short months.

And Kev's walked (obviously straight out of the door across the Tyne without getting his two-inch heels wet if you believe the Gallowgate End).

 

In a nutshell, what Ashley didn't get was that if you want to stay on the side of the believers, then it's best if you don't undermine God. He's committed blasphemy, which was why he didn't show up on Saturday to the Hull game (Mind you, neither did the team and who can blame them?).

The thing I really don't get - and maybe I'm jealous cos we Teessiders learnt long ago that we should be grateful for what we get - is where all this massive expectation comes from.

I mean, Newcastle United have won precisely nowt for nigh on 50 years. That's diddly, nada, zilch. In that same period the FA Cup has been won by Sunderland, Southampton, Portsmouth, West Ham, Spurs...

The League Cup has been won by Boro, Villa, Leicester, Norwich, Oxford Bleeding United, Wolves, even the League somehow found its way into the hands of Leeds, Derby, Forest, Villa, Everton.

In all that time, Newcastle have done nothing. So where does this inner-belief come from?

When a woman says "he ruined me life", you've got to ask whether that woman ought to have more important things to worry about.

I mean, I love Middlesbrough football club but I don't think Bryan Robson made me suicidal - he just made me bloody miserable for a bit.

 

Ashley's put the 'For Sale' sign up but you've got to ask who's going to want to fork out money to get this sort of treatment from a group of fans living on virtually non-existent past glories?

Ashley put 250 million quid into the club and it's still struggling financially. That aside, Ashley has been a disaster but until the fans get a grip on reality it's going to be an impossible job for anyone.

We seem to be saying this about Newcastle every three months but whoever comes in now needs to be given time, lots of time, be it owner, chairman, manager, director of football, or even tea boy.

What's more likely to happen is that there'll be a glorious sentimental cartel of great Geordies from popular culture who'll form a showbiz take-over.

Just imagine Alan Shearer, Mark Knopfler, Sting, and Brian Ferry singing Brothers in Arms as they mount a podium at the centre of St. James' Park, while the chairmen Ant 'n' Dec look on with pints in their hands and pride in their hearts.

Actually that won't happen cos it might work. Let's be realistic: what does a prospective buyer need to be successful?

They need to be:

(A) Local

(:ph34r: Thicker-skinned than Simon Cowell

© Richer than one of me Nan's Christmas puddings

(D) Maybe a bit delusional

(E) Probably a bit stupid

Well, there's only one person that fits the bill if you ask me - Heather Mills, your time has come.

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/robborobson/200...g_the_mike.html

 

Keegan's a quitter - check

Ashley wears a strip - check

Bonus points for xxxxxxxl reference - check

Ashley likes a drink - check

preference for 4-3 - check

Religious Messiah, Judas walk on water bollocks - check

Delusional - check

won nowt in 50 years - check

The fans are too impatient for anyone to succeed - check

Ant and Dec/Sting reference - check

 

Obviously this Robbo is a dipshit smog monster, but that has to be a record for stereotypical banality.

The only thing it missed was having a misguided attempt to knock our attendances in the eighty's or when we were out of the top flight. Actually given that it's supposed to have been written by a smoggie, having a go at our attendances might have actually achived the comedy it tried and failled to hit.

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More of the 606 brigade I'm afraid. Ill-informed armchair big four supporting titheads who don't go to matches and learn everything about football from Spoony and Sky Sports News. No nowt over-opinionated fuckers. This boils my piss, can you tell?

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