Originally Posted by
ramAnag
Seriously? I suspect Newcastle fans are a little deluded. It’s a huge football city but, a couple of minor Euro successes apart, they’ve done little since the fifties. They’re not unlike us...only from twenty years earlier. They had huge success in the early fifties as we did in the early seventies and it has, imo, left them with ideas above their station and a level of over expectation.
In Ashley’s favour he’s largely kept them up and on the one occasion they slipped to the Championship he oversaw their immediate return as Champions. Doubt I’d like Ashley much, but, as Rich says, their last ten years have been a helluva lot brighter than ours.