Newcastle United FC, A History of Mismanagement
Any Newcastle supporter will understand when I say that the peaks are high and the troughs are low and they come about as regular as clock-work:
St James Park, home of Newcastle United Football Club, the Stadium is actually older than the football club itself. The ground has been used for football matches since 1880. 10 years later in 1890 the club became a limited company with the issue of 2,000 shares, shares which were to be fought over by Sir John Hall and Gordon Mckeag slightly more than 100 years later.
Our Aims Look As If They've Been Realised, Shepherd is no longer Chairman, He's Gone.
Friday 7th December, 6 Months On. Today, Friday 7th December 2007, should be a day of celebration for all Newcastle fans. Why? Because it is exactly six calendar months to the day since Freddy Shepherd became nothing more than a part of our history.
What do we do with this site from now on?
What we plan to do is give it one last update, we'll update the site to reflect the current situation, and we’ll also try to come up with something to explain what the club was like when Mike Ashley finally wrestled control from the former regime.
We've all read many stories which may or may not be based on fact, a lot will be the media putting 2 and 2 together and coming up with something different to 4.
Our only reason for setting up this site was to put people like Freddy Shepherd and Douglas Hall under pressure to stop making the wrong headlines. We felt it was too easy to discredit the club, hide away for a few weeks then turn up as if nothing had happened. We didn't hide the site, we made sure that those making the headlines knew this site was going to catalogue whatever they did, and we do know that people from within the club were visiting this site while Shepherd was running the show. We also know that the clubs solicitors were well aware of the site although we have no way of knowing if they stumbled across the site by accident or were pointed towards the site from within the football club. We do know from checking our access logs on a daily basis that the solicitors were visiting within a couple of days of the site being accessed from within St James’ Park, draw your own conclusions, we have done so.
We may even try to gain an insight into where the club is heading, what is planned by the new custodians of the Cathedral on the hill. If we achieve this we'll sit back and wait to see what develops. The football may not be too pretty, nobody can deny that the club is once again off the front pages for non-footballing stories, we're almost a normal football club once again, long may that continue. It would appear that some Journalists are determined to carry on trying to find a story and will not stop short of inventing what they can’t find but it has to be acknowledged that a few were brilliant while Shepherd was running the club, an honourable mention goes out to Henry Winter and many others who made sure Shepherd was partially held to account for his actions.
Some Journalists are blamed for stirring up trouble for the club, we would agree with that, some still seem unable to understand that no matter how much they dig they’re not fooling anybody. We can all guess what is going on but none of us know for sure but we are more than happy to give the new people every change to get this club running the way we all want, we’ll have highs in future and no doubt we’ll have lows. What we are sure of is that if mistakes are made they’ll be errors made while trying to do the right thing for the club and it’s often too loyal fans; let’s face it we’ve been mugs in the past. Now though, we’ve got every chance of pulling together and reaching the heights we’ve all craved, heights which are long over-due. Now is the time to unite behind the club, let’s see what we can do when we all pull together for the good of the club, let’s see if we can make a difference, if we can make a difference then we’re all winners.
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