Newcastle fans don't support their team as they should

[Christmas Tree 3997]

Sam Allardyce has lifted the lid on his final, crazy days as manager of Newcastle United.

 

The Blackburn boss blames Tyneside hostility for wrecking his plans to rebuild the club and continuing to undermine Newcastle’s own ambitions.

 

He reveals that he had drawn up a list of transfer targets and even brought Croatia star Luka Modric to the training ground for talks.

 

But early in 2008 Newcastle owner Mike Ashley bowed to pressure from the fans and Allardyce’s eight-month reign at St James’ Park was over.

 

 

Since then Newcastle have had a sobering term in the Championship, while Allardyce has consolidated Blackburn’s position in the Premier League. His restored credibility is mirrored by that of another Newcastle casualty, Scott Parker, who almost single-handedly dragged West Ham clear of relegation this season.

 

Allardyce said: “I had got the staff in place and we were ready to rock and roll.

 

“What we needed was bigger and better players – like a Modric. Modric was in our training ground, having a look around. He was top of our list.

 

“But then somebody told Mike I wasn’t the man. They told him Harry [Redknapp] was – and I got booted out. Then Harry changed his mind.

 

“I have no problem at all because Mike Ashley settled my contract immediately.

 

“It was Freddy Shepherd who had taken me on, and I would have been bitter and twisted if he had sacked me, but it does get difficult after there’s been a ­takeover.”

 

But Allardyce clearly still has an issue with the Geordie fans who turned on him and others in their ­frenzied hunt for success.

 

“Fan pressure there is hostile towards the players. They don’t really support the team as they should, they’re very critical and the players can’t handle that. That’s what Scott Parker couldn’t cope with. He said he couldn’t play at Newcastle.

 

“Gary Speed told me when I went up there that it’s a very difficult place to play your football. If the fans don’t take to you, you’re knackered.

 

“I had spent a huge amount of time recreating a football club that needed recreating. That was behind the scenes, with an induction of staff who had moved with me.

 

“We’d created a whole new working environment, but that staff got dismantled over the next six months – the club appreciated nothing and started all over again.”

 

Allardyce, once close to winning the England job, now admits he will never be able to achieve true fulfilment as a manager. He said: “I don’t think I’ll get a chance to be England manager. That would have been the fulfilment of my career.

 

“I’m not sure I would get the chance with a top-four club either.

 

“I could manage abroad, but there’s no better place than the Premier League – the last 10 years have been the best of my life.”

Edited May 9, 2010 by Christmas Tree

[Asprilla 96]

You blew it Samuel, get over it.

[Guest Barrack Road]

I'm lost for words. When Blackburn come up, I hope he gets a reception akin to the one Gazza got in 1988 when he came back with Spurs, only this time FFSA would deserve it 100 times more than Gazza. As for Parker he can go and fuck himself as well the shit cunt. All these people who fail here, blaming everybody but themselves. You never saw SBR do that, or Nobby Solano, or Habib Beye, I wonder why, maybe it's cos they were good enough to be here, just a thought like.

[Sonatine 10007]

Best mates with this tosser, nothing more needs to be said

 

[Ayatollah Hermione 12768]

Smug, horrible wanker of a man. Like Stevie says, it's always the blame laid at someone else's door with him.

[Barney 0]

Last memory I have of the fat pig is getting a cracking reception after a poor away FA Cup draw at Stoke.

 

Fans turned on him when we rolled fucking over at home to Liverpool. He was out of his depth at NUFC. He's much more comfortable playing negative football in front of 20,000 and turnig players like Okacha and Pedersen into long throw specialists.

[acrossthepond 707]

Played for the draw away to the worst team in PL history. Nothing else needs to be said really. Worthless fat shite who would've sent us down given long enough; it's no wonder we wanted rid of him.

[sammynb 2929]

Played for the draw.

 

That would have to be the twat's epitaph.

[Tom 13883]

When talking about Allardyce or he talks about himself people tend to forget he was absolutely fucking awful!

[sammynb 2929]

When talking about Allardyce or he talks about himself people tend to forget he is absolutely fucking awful!

 

FYP

[Guest alex]

Played for the draw. And Lost

 

That would have to be the twat's epitaph.

Would be better.

[toon_don 0]

The thing that really winds me up is when other fans tell us the main reasons Newcastle went down is that we had hugely over paid mercenaries who weren't good enough, and we sacked Big Sam when he would have kept us up. Nobody ever points that he was responsible for signing the likes of Smith, Barton, Viduka, Cacapa and Geremi, that we failed to beat the worst side in premier league history over two games, and we played absolutely awful football. I can stomach poor football if progress is being made, but getting thrashed at home by Portsmouth, and losing to the likes of Derby, Reading and Wigan isn't progress. And the Fulham match at Craven Cottage, even though we won, is genuinely the worst game of football I've ever seen. Fulham had been and were atrocious that day, and yet we still turned up looking for a 0-0, and happened to win a penalty in the last minute.

 

The amount of revisionism that goes on when people talk about us is ridiculous.

[The Fish 9017]

I honestly don't know from where he gets the nerve to say that shit.

 

Can't wait to meet his anti-football team when they come up here. He should be torn to pieces by a pack of angry cats

[NJS 3986]

As I've said before, I was happy when we sacked the cunt so I could go back to hating the football murdering piece of shit.

 

I also believe 100% we would have been relegated* if he'd stayed

 

 

* 2007-2008 obviously.

Edited May 9, 2010 by NJS

[Papa Lazaru 0]

Predictable shit from Fat Sam, the fans could have got on his back long before they got annoyed with his antics of playing for draws against the likes of Derby. Also none of that season is ever his fault if you listen to him talk about it.

 

The Scott Parker bit is fair enough for me though, Parker may not have been good enough in many fans eyes but he got a load of shit off the fans everytime he touched the ball and eventually you can't play in that at your best whoever you are. And whether you think he was good enough or not, he gave everything so he didn't deserve alot of the abuse that came his way.

 

However just the normal "pressure" of playing for the big crowd who expect the team to put in the effort at home and a certain level of performance is not even an argument, if you can't handle that why are you in the game. When its personal against one player then that's different.

[Isegrim 8876]

Played for the draw.

 

That would have to be the twat's epitaph.

I reckon we see a lot of this shit next season though.

[Papa Lazaru 0]

Played for the draw.

 

That would have to be the twat's epitaph.

I reckon we see a lot of this shit next season though.

 

First game we lose next season will be entirely the fans fault as we were expecting to win the domestic treble and the champions league, even though we're not in it, because we're so deluded and the poor players collapsed under the expectation!

[Isegrim 8876]

Played for the draw.

 

That would have to be the twat's epitaph.

I reckon we see a lot of this shit next season though.

 

First game we lose next season will be entirely the fans fault as we were expecting to win the domestic treble and the champions league, even though we're not in it, because we're so deluded and the poor players collapsed under the expectation!

I was rather talking about sending out a team playing for draws tbh. In the end that's how we played a lot of away games this season after all...

[Papa Lazaru 0]

Played for the draw.

 

That would have to be the twat's epitaph.

I reckon we see a lot of this shit next season though.

 

First game we lose next season will be entirely the fans fault as we were expecting to win the domestic treble and the champions league, even though we're not in it, because we're so deluded and the poor players collapsed under the expectation!

I was rather talking about sending out a team playing for draws tbh. In the end that's how we played a lot of away games this season after all...

 

I don't know, i think Hughton will keep it tight and perhaps employ his system of Nolan (or other) off the striker at times away from home, but i'm not sure he'll quite be of the Fat Sam "spoil the game and try to cling desperately to a draw in games you should win" school of thought.

[Guest Barrack Road]

Last memory I have of the fat pig is getting a cracking reception after a poor away FA Cup draw at Stoke.

 

Fans turned on him when we rolled fucking over at home to Liverpool. He was out of his depth at NUFC. He's much more comfortable playing negative football in front of 20,000 and turnig players like Okacha and Pedersen into long throw specialists.

He got a fuckin easy ride apart from that game for how shite we were. That Portsmouth game could've caused a riot it was that bad. Cacapa dragged off (his signing, the world class Cacapa - according to Sima) after 20 minutes for being wank 0-3 down. The Liverpool game, that SCOUSE BASTARD, and that's what you are if you read this website, Barton in the paper saying the fans were a disgrace. Well I tell you why there was a poisonous atmosphere in the ground, because we have a man in charge of us getting paid 50 fuckin grand a week, who substitutes our best attacking option (and only threat) for a defender, while we're 2-0 down at home. That's why he got the abuse. This is Newcastle United I'd rather lose 0-10, than settle for 0-2 by not having a go. He's a cunt I feel as bad about him as I do about Souness.

[Papa Lazaru 0]

Last memory I have of the fat pig is getting a cracking reception after a poor away FA Cup draw at Stoke.

 

Fans turned on him when we rolled fucking over at home to Liverpool. He was out of his depth at NUFC. He's much more comfortable playing negative football in front of 20,000 and turnig players like Okacha and Pedersen into long throw specialists.

He got a fuckin easy ride apart from that game for how shite we were. That Portsmouth game could've caused a riot it was that bad. Cacapa dragged off (his signing, the world class Cacapa - according to Sima) after 20 minutes for being wank 0-3 down. The Liverpool game, that SCOUSE BASTARD, and that's what you are if you read this website, Barton in the paper saying the fans were a disgrace. Well I tell you why there was a poisonous atmosphere in the ground, because we have a man in charge of us getting paid 50 fuckin grand a week, who substitutes our best attacking option (and only threat) for a defender, while we're 2-0 down at home. That's why he got the abuse. This is Newcastle United I'd rather lose 0-10, than settle for 0-2 by not having a go. He's a cunt I feel as bad about him as I do about Souness.

 

They've both spent their time talking bollocks and blaming everyone else for their fuck ups here and re-writing history wth the help of the media and in Souness' case his mates on MOTD. Only difference is i didn't think Allardyce was a bad appointment at the time, but with Souness like everyone else bar Shepherd, i knew that was a disaster waiting to happen.

[Guest alex]

Allardyce can say what he wants, even if it is bollocks to mask how shite he was up here but what makes him a real twat here is bringing up stuff other people said to him, probably in private and (even more likely) completely out of context.

[Guest Barrack Road]

Allardyce can say what he wants, even if it is bollocks to mask how shite he was up here but what makes him a real twat here is bringing up stuff other people said to him, probably in private and (even more likely) completely out of context.

I thought that, it makes Gary Speed look bad to be honest, and by the time he left GS had a good relationship with the fans, the way FFSA has worded it, it makes him look like he's been bad mouthing us. I wonder what Speed thinks about the comments.

[Park Life 70]

Thing is good players thrive under enthusiastic and demanding crowds and bad players wilt. Case closed.

[Holden McGroin 4897]

I dont think there was a massive public discontent about the fat cunt at the time he got sacked. I think a lot of fans were willing to give him some time to get his act together.

 

The football was tedious though. Especially when you're getting beat every week.