Newcastle Stay Afloat Again
Fuck this fucking club. Fuck Steve Bruce.
Name another FIFA-licensed manager in any professional league who has his squad play like this up two goals and with an extra man on the pitch? Name another manager who wouldn't start Joe Willock, one of the best players on the roster?
Enough. I have had enough. I want the murderous Saudis to buy this club now. Yes, I resisted. I don't care about human rights anymore. I want new ownership yesterday.
Do not step inside the stadium until there are new owners. This is not football. This is not a normal club. A normal club with this roster would be comfortably finishing 12th.
And I know what you Geordies say. I respect you. You know this sport better than any other city in the UK. You will say, 'piss off, we know, we've heard it all before.' But you need to hear it again. Your country invented professional sports. But here in the States, even the worst-run MLB, NBA and NFL teams have a faint level of normalcy in their front offices. Even the Washington Department of Football and the New York Knicks. Newcastle are not normal.
How many more times must a club this big, with a giant fan base, barely stay afloat in the English Premier League? Why does there have to be a relegation scare every December through April? Because the owner, that’s why. The owner and his transfer policy. The owner and his neglect of the youth academy. The owner and his neglect of the training facilities. And that all led to a once great club unable to attract a competent coach to mange it. Rafael Benitiez was a saint. He tried in vain to make Newcastle normal. But it can’t be normal until it is sold. It’s time to sell the club and give this city a normal sports franchise.