Pardew, don’t tell me that I have to buy into Newcastle United!
Posted on August 9th, 2011 | 92 Comments |
“People need to buy into what Newcastle United is all about, we haven’t got the riches of some of the clubs.”
Well of course, I can’t speak for all of the fans, and wouldn’t attempt to, but writing personally as someone who was born in Gosforth and who has bought into what the club is since childhood, I feel a little patronised when a manager who has been at the club for less than a year should be telling both myself and my fellow sufferers who have supported the team through thick and thin, including times when the club had far fewer riches than it does today that I have to “buy into what Newcastle United is all about”. Unless, Mr.Pardew wasn’t really asking us to get behind the team, but get behind himself, Ashley, Llambias and the constantly misleading statements they are making to us, the ever decreasing investment in new players as the best of the old ones are shown the door, the huge increases in prices for disabled fans, the cheapening of our stadium with tacky, garish Sports Direct advertising, the breaking up of the singing section. Mr. Pardew, please don’t conflate the right to express an opinion on how much fans of the club are taken for granted with not buying into Newcastle United itself.
As for the players, while some of the outbursts on Twitter have been ill advised to say the least, there were no signs of dissent from them under our previous manager, when comments on ongoing contract negotiations weren’t freely offered in media interviews at every opportunity. What two of the players (Joey Barton and Jose Enrique) did was wrong, but it was you who set the bad example by contstantly bloviating on issues which should have been kept behind closed doors. You set a bad example Mr.Pardew.
Apologies dear readers, but I had to get that one off my chest!
The bloke is a smarmy sleazy self promoting ignorant toss pot,but unfortunately he is our smarmy sleazy etc. etc.