Oh dear!!!
No doubt some readers of this blog will find it difficult to care much one way or another, but to my despair Newcastle United went down today – relegated from the Premier League, they’ll be playing in the Championship next season. What a tragedy this season has been – but I hope they’ll hang on to Alan Shearer anyway. Maybe life in the Championship will not be all bad for them, as they’ll be able to sort themselves out a little, which on the evidence of much of this season is badly needed.
And the lessons to be learnt? That rich owners coming in and thinking they know better how management should be structured is a disaster. I suspect that the whole framework governing football (soccer) needs to be reviewed. But while big money is still flowing into the game there may not be much urgency in all that.
There, I needed to get that off my chest. No more posts about Newcastle for a little while!
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May 24, 2009 at 10:09 pm
My sympathies (from a Stoke fan)
May 25, 2009 at 7:36 am
You have my sympathy.
Was the patient expected to survive.