One Chrissy Hughton?
Posted on November 1st, 2010 | 39 Comments |
As results go they don’t get much better than that, but one thing I found that was a nice extra touch was the widespread backing for Chris Hughton that sounded out from the crowd on a number of occasions yesterday.
In a week where Hughton’s tenure as Newcastle boss had been called into question, mainly by the media, it seemed quite appropriate that the crowd united behind Hughton in front of a worldwide television audience. It was a proper ‘two-fingers’ to the press who have been trying to stir up some trouble where none had previously existed.
Chants of ‘One Chrissy Hughton’ and ‘Walking in a Hughton wonderland’ rang out from various parts of the ground yesterday, although I have no doubt that the media will try to paint us as fickle and suggest that we were only singing those songs as we were winning against our unwashed rivals from down the road.
The fact is that we know different. The controvrsial poll that Workyticket put up a week or so ago where he asked the question of whether or not Newcastle should sack Chris Hughton may have cause a stir on the ‘blog, but the results of the poll can’t be argued with.
The fact is that the vast majority of fans have always been behind Chris Hughton. Most fans recognise the job that he has done as our manager and realise that it is he who has helped to mould a team that has the best team-spirit that I have seen in black and white for a good number of years, possibly in my whole Toon supporting lifetime.
As for his supposed contract wrangle, I’ll guess we’ll have to wait and see on that one. One thing that can be made certain is that the Hughton detractors, including the “fans” who have access to the media, will have been sileneced by yesterday’s performance, and yes I am looking squarely at you Mr Malcolm Macdonald!
No doubt Supermac will try and wriggle out of what he said yesterday, and given the calibre of the man I wouldn’t be surprised if he tried to turn it around and claim that he was trying to fire the Newcastle players up for the game yeatserday.
If he does end up claiming something similar to that then he needs reminding that nobody of any real importance at the club, and by that I mean players and manager, really gives a toss what comes out of his motormouth.
Next up it is Arsenal away, and there is a very real chance that we will lose the game. Arsenal are Arsenal after all, and they are looking rather tasty at the minute. My main hope is that the toys don’t come back out of the pram again if we do lose next weekend.
Hughton deserves time. We have tried everything from big-time managers to superstar players, but the one thing we haven’t tried is giving people time.
Now there is an idea…..
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I know we shouldn’t get carried away by it all, but looking at the table now, if we’d only produced that kind of performance against Wigan, Stoke and Blackpool, as well as not being cheated out of the Man Shitty game, we couldve been sitting pretty at the top. Anyhoo, that’s all why fors