Quote Originally Posted by upthemaggies View Post
Still think there's a chance we might have got the investment had that Fword fan kept his nose out. Ours (& svens) reputation was damaged beyond repair largely thanks to him. That's not to defend Russell King or to suggest that we wouldn't have been in a mess, but I don't think that journalist helped us one bit, nor gave a **** what happened to us afterwards. We ended up with The Trews for god's sake.

Feel for Newcastle fans at the moment, regardless of the rights or wrongs.

It was a bloke called Matt Scott, but I think he’s an Arsenal fan. I hated him at the time, and clearly it was a bit of a scoop and he didn’t give a monkeys about us one way or the other. To be fair, it should have been a local journalist who picked it up, but they’re clearly useless.

Not sure what would have happened if the whole fiasco had carried on unmolested. It was only when Ray Trew took over that we got a decent manager in and won the league, so nothing would have been guaranteed.