Re: Kevin Keegan Returns To Newcastle Utd.
Posted: Thu Jan 17, 2008 6:28 am
Bob Singleton wrote:
> Newcastle fans want attacking football. The new chairman, who
> sits with the fans and hears their gripes first hand, has given
> them what they want... a "local hero".
>
> Sadly the current Newcastle side doesn't have any attacking
> players worth mentioning, and has a defence as solid as a sand
> castle when the tide is coming in.
>
> Playing Keegan's style of attacking football with the players
> currently at his disposal, Newcastle will be joining Derby and
> one other at the EXIT door come the end of the season.
>
> They say Keegan will attract top players? Really?? Any top
> player will remember, or hopefully be reminded, that Keegan
> blew a 12pt lead and lost the Premiership to Man Utd in 96 when
> he couldn't cope with Ferguson's mind games. He later resigned
> from the England job acknowledging he wasn't up to making the
> tactical decisions necessary to win games that were slipping
> away.
>
> His earlier "success" at Fulham was done with the equivalent
> funds RA lavishes on Chelsea, so not exactly difficult to get
> them promoted to the Premier League given that backing and he
> hardly set the Premiership on fire at Man City, either.
>
> A retrograde solution to a problem that should never have
> existed in the first place. It's always nice to see an old
> flame, but it's never as good as the first time... let's hope
> Newcastle fans are aware of this, or they'll get disillusioned
> very quickly.
>
> The best thing that could have happened was to offer the job to
> Shearer. He would make a pig's ear of it and leave by "mutual
> agreement". Until he's had his turn, he will forever be a
> shadow of doom looming over the club, and no decent manager
> will take the job under these circumstances.
>
>
Well done, think you have summed this situation up rather well
> Newcastle fans want attacking football. The new chairman, who
> sits with the fans and hears their gripes first hand, has given
> them what they want... a "local hero".
>
> Sadly the current Newcastle side doesn't have any attacking
> players worth mentioning, and has a defence as solid as a sand
> castle when the tide is coming in.
>
> Playing Keegan's style of attacking football with the players
> currently at his disposal, Newcastle will be joining Derby and
> one other at the EXIT door come the end of the season.
>
> They say Keegan will attract top players? Really?? Any top
> player will remember, or hopefully be reminded, that Keegan
> blew a 12pt lead and lost the Premiership to Man Utd in 96 when
> he couldn't cope with Ferguson's mind games. He later resigned
> from the England job acknowledging he wasn't up to making the
> tactical decisions necessary to win games that were slipping
> away.
>
> His earlier "success" at Fulham was done with the equivalent
> funds RA lavishes on Chelsea, so not exactly difficult to get
> them promoted to the Premier League given that backing and he
> hardly set the Premiership on fire at Man City, either.
>
> A retrograde solution to a problem that should never have
> existed in the first place. It's always nice to see an old
> flame, but it's never as good as the first time... let's hope
> Newcastle fans are aware of this, or they'll get disillusioned
> very quickly.
>
> The best thing that could have happened was to offer the job to
> Shearer. He would make a pig's ear of it and leave by "mutual
> agreement". Until he's had his turn, he will forever be a
> shadow of doom looming over the club, and no decent manager
> will take the job under these circumstances.
>
>
Well done, think you have summed this situation up rather well