Dear Sir,
THE NEWCASTLE SOAP OPERA: PART 150!
IT is very difficult to see how Kevin Keegan could have done other than resign. Every manager knows and accepts that it is his head on the block when the often unreasonable expectations of fans and chairman are not met. However that can only be a workable arrangement if the manager controls the playing staff. It is amazing how Chairman never seem to accept their own responsibility for appointing managers in the first place!
That said, I do sometimes wonder what it is about Newcastle United that seems to make every drama a crisis and every appointment a messiah. Perhaps a turning down of the media temperature might help next time.
The fact is that, aside from their own passionate supporters, nobody much else cares about Newcastle United other than for the soap opera appeal. They are a mid range Premier team who have won nothing for 40 years and should expect no more than steady progress to that area just below the golden 4.
If they reconcile themselves to that there is a chance that the successor to Keegan will stand a chance. That, of course, does rather depend upon the Chairman picking and sticking with a winner- not something that appears to come naturally!
Dave Partridge
Port de Pollensa