That was the first weekend of the season Newcastle got beat 4-0 off Man City and it could have been double figures but they still had more touches in the oppos penalty area than Fulham
Seeing as you have decided to honour us with your presence and following on from a post on your board there are a couple of links to articles relating to you lot abusing Bobby Robson - please feel free to share with your little friends on your board. I particularly like the one that says NUFC supporters spitting on him because he didn't pick Keegon but there again the LAST SENTANCE WAS BOLLOCKS - jog on tosser www.nufcblog.org/2011/08/bellamy-on...y-and-why-he-would-never-return/#.Uy4Vb7lF200 www.express.co.uk/comment/columnists/mick-dennis/118097/Shame-on-the-critics-who-now-mourn-Sir-Bobby
Of course like an alcoholic or a drug addict you and your little friends are in denial - apparently the first step to rejoining the human race etc is to admit your failings go on you know you want too - go on say it - we were wrong to spit on and boo Bobby
There was possibly a few who boo'd him, who were quickly drowned out by the vast majority. You lot used to sing songs about him being senile and stinking of piss.
just incase you cant open links - this is how the world sees the Newcastle treatment of Sir Bobby Robson The honourable men and women who have lauded him since his death will queue to eulogise again. They will include those who mocked, derided and maligned him during his life. Doubtless there will be tears on Tyneside again this week. Yet Newcastle supporters spat on Sir Bobby when, as England manager, he dropped Kevin Keegan. Years later they booed him when, as Newcastle manager, he dared to drop Alan Shearer. Presumably there will be more mournful comments this week from the Supporters Club, yet when Sir Bobby was sacked as Newcastle manager, their statement was: “Recently he has lost the confidence of the players and the fans.” Perhaps there will be another thoughtful contribution from Kieron Dyer, who marked Sir Bobby’s passing by saying: “I am going to look at all the great memories he brought to my life and all the special bits.” This is the same dire Dyer who refused to play for Newcastle when Sir Bobby wanted him to operate on the right flank. And there will surely be reverential remarks from Freddy Shepherd, who has already announced: “He was certainly the best manager I ever worked with at Newcastle.” Yet it was Shepherd who, as chairman, sacked Sir Bobby four games into a season and announced the news with weasel words. The craven statement was: “The club agreed early in 2003 to extend Sir Bobby’s contract by one further season. However, after careful consideration the club decided it was in the best interest of all concerned to revisit that decision.” So Shepherd had told his “best manager” that the 2004-05 season would be his last. But, in the first month of that season, Shepherd and his cronies put their considerable intellects to the task of careful consideration. Then they “revisited the decision”. In their use of mealy-mouthed euphemisms they provided a model for every hasty board that does not have the courage to speak plainly about their actions. Sir Bobby’s achievements at Newcastle can now be seen as extraordinary. But the accusation whispered behind his back at the time was that he was too old at 71 to relate to modern footballers. Perhaps he did not understand Dyer, who, during Robson’s tenure at St James’ Park, was fined for driving a BMW M3 at 80mph in a 50mph limit, then fined for driving a Mercedes S500 at 104mph, and then drove a Ferrari into the side of a bridge late at night. Or perhaps Sir Bobby did not relate to Patrick Kluivert, one of the many quixotic signings made during his reign which, later, Sir Bobby suggested had not been of his doing. Shortly after Sir Bobby was sacked, Kluivert halted a training session because he had lost an expensive earring. If Sir Bobby did not understand modern footballers, the failing was not his. Yet it is definitely not only in Newcastle that Sir Bobby’s death has prompted a rewriting of history so as to erase uncomfortable memories of wrong-headed assessments. My profession gleefully ladled ordure on to him 20 years ago and yet now rushes out revisionist appraisals. The truth is that, particularly after the shockingly inept performances in the 1988 European Championships, Sir Bobby was vilified for most of the time he managed England. He was “Booby Robson” according to one paper. Another responded to a draw with Saudi Arabia in a friendly with the headline: “In the name of Allah, go”. The Football Association – and yes, they have added hypocritical valedictories in recent days – vacillated. Instead of backing Sir Bobby or sacking him, FA chairman Bert Millichip briefed journalists that unless England won the 1990 World Cup, the manager would not have his contract renewed. So Sir Bobby sought other employment. He agreed to join PSV Eindhoven after the World Cup – and English newspapers condemned him as a traitor. In the event, the World Cup went well. England’s stumbling but exhilarating charge to the last four brought one of the game’s all-time dramas; the epic semi-final against West Germany that brought Paul Gascoigne’s tears, defeat on penalties and a dignified acceptance of football’s vicissitudes by Sir Bobby. It was only then that the nation he adored began to reinvent him in the collective consciousness as an avuncular, if absent-minded, football sage. As he added European successes and a remarkable longevity to his CV, the game he loved began to return that affection. Finally, as his indomitable spirit raged against age and vicious illness, we acknowledged a great man. So if we truly want to honour his memory, perhaps there is a universal truth to be gleaned from his treatment at Newcastle and England. It is that we – the media and the fans – rush to shallow judgments. A few wins, and we consider someone a genius. A few defeats, and we “revisit that decision”. ‘ It is not only at Newcastle that Robson’s death has prompted the rewriting of history’
