Glenn the monarch: 'I can kick ass with the best of them'
By Simon Turnbull Published: 21 May 2006
Not for the first time in recent memory, the media suite at St James' Park was filled with fighting talk. Thirteen months ago Graeme Souness hauled Lee Bowyer and Kieron Dyer in there to offer sheepish apologies for the outbreak of on-field fisticuffs that Freddy Shepherd described as his "blackest" moment as chairman of Newcastle United. Last Tuesday morning it was Shepherd who was pulling no punches in front of the microphones. "If he was standing in front of me I'd punch him on the nose," the Newcastle chairman said, failing to restrain his anger towards John Barnwell, chief executive of the League Managers' Association, on the occasion of Glenn Roeder's confirmation as Souness' managerial successor.
Nufcmismanagement view:
Grow up Freddy, stop bringing this club in to disrepute, we're sick of you showing up the club, the city and everybody associated with both, give it a rest and act your age.