Kevin Keegan. Only a Newcastle United supporter could believe that he wasn't going to do the club any harm. I feel really sorry for Newcastle but you have got what you deserve for poaching and then sacking Big Sam.

If Big Sam was still at the helm then you would have been guaranteed premiership football for years to come. As it is thanks to King Kevin, it's good luck in the championship. And then the Johnson's Paint Trophy when you will finally be able to re-live those glory days when you are reunited with Leeds.

As for blaming Dennis Wise. sure he's useless but he is not the one that walked out is he. If King Kevin truly loved the club then he would have acted like a man and stuck around and done the job he was paid to do. Yes, even if he didn't get all the players he wanted... And even if he did have to work with Dennis Chopper Wise.

An excellent article! MSN eat your heart out. Think i will be lifting some of this when i preach my weekly drivel to my numbers on my own radio show this weeeek (thats Stoke-on-Trent Polytechnic Radio by the way - thanks for your support, mum, dad, aunty and unkle).

But you gotta laugh aintcha? A Nigerian consortium looking to buy Newcastle? Don't we all get them emails at least twice a month? No dout they want Mike Ashley to invest in some stocks and shares, left by some executed dictator to his mistress, via his second cousin twice removed. I suppose they want Dennis the Menace to get a taxi to Nairobi and then jump bail with a suitcase after having kicked the taxi & driver to death?

and Joe Lewis at Spurs? 100 Companies? Jesus.

As For Man City, well anyone who has 444 billion in the bank and invests in a club like that is obviously two supporters short of a Kippax. 444 Billion? What is the point? With that amount of dosh, the Arabs can play a real life ver$ion of Championship Manager and drive their 8 or so wives each positively bezerk. Bet Man City don't win fuckall this season anyway. Allah be praised.

Final word on me own club the beloved, (and since 1990) deluded LFC. Our owners have got it sussed, football these days, especially in the Carling Cup is often a close shave. When i heard Gillette had bought the Kop I rang me mate who runs a burger stall, went out and invested in one thousand pounds worth of shares in MACH 3 razors. I am still car booting 'em but i hope to become a millionaire myself one day. As the saying goes - you gotta spend money to make money...

@#$% is that the time? gotta go and prepare my insignificant internet podcast. Bye.

The owners are all t0ssers

Surely the question should be "Are Newcastle fans the Leagues worst supporters?"

mike ashleys big mistake was dennis the dwaf wise what does he know about newcastle u could write on the back of a stamp get shot of him and beg king kev to come back

mike ashley is said to be doing what is best for newcastle united.if he is selling the club then he wll have no need for wise and company.so let them go get kegen back in place and lets all move on.im sure this will settle it all down,and get the players playing again

"Abramovich is really the best owner a club could have". thats funny.

before anything else,its football,it is a buisness.only in the respect that its a franchise,that aside,its something that cnt be fu*ked around with,if you dont know football you have no buisness getting involved ,fans are loyal when they have something to support,when you rip the soul from a club,and bring in people who have no buisness being there your gonna have probles,denis wise played for chelsea,that aside,what credentials gives him the right to be director of football at one of the best supported clubs in england?some rich @#$% with ideas above his station thats what.for all the mucking about that the liverpool owners do,they let benitez pick his own team and buy his own players,thats a start,newcastle is a ship with now no captian.and no real direction ,there taking on water,and theres no one to bail them out it seems,but a group of nigerians who maybe are looking for an aquisition to add to there financial portfolio.god help us all

Personally I thought there was too many foreign players in our football league ruining everything. This article goes to show how many foreign investors are ruining our once beautiful game. My opinion is kick them all out and lets see some home grown talent and keep the british paying footballing publics money in this country for a change. Why is our national team so poor because our own boys have no opportunities and we seem to think foreign is best. Total rubbish.

who in there right mind besides a group of nigerians who possibly dont realise that newcatle are in the shizz,are going to want to throw money at a blackhole that is newcastle.no matter how much money you have the club swallows it up and still under achieves,long since are the times of lol,tino asprilla,the rubber legged oddity who graced your team in the champions league win over Juventus,now your struggling for your very identity,if i were a billionaire,id look to buy a club lower down in the championship,and bring it up then compete.newcastle is a thirsty horse that keeps on drinking,i really feel for the fans,they support through thick n thin,not like united.who dissapeard to set up a new club cos someone came in to buy there's,The prawn sandwich munching fans bemoan everyone else,count your blessings you have stability,for now!!!!

fkj
calm down, its just an article, dont take it to heart! I found it funny when man city wealth was 11/10! brilliant! keep it up boys!

Interesting artical....
man,man city are loaded....!
it should be fun to see what they do with it.
only a possitive for the EPL as it makes it even more competitive.
theres always a feeling that some clubs will never win anything,
no matter how much they spend,i.e. NUFC.
but saying that, I don't think NUFC has ever been the biggest spenders in a single season ?

I'm a Newcastle fan. I think Mike Ashley has bailed the club out a hell of a lot. his mistake was perhaps to bring in Dennis 'un' Wise, and then Keegan in a knee jerk. Let's be honest Keegan left Newcastle in a bit of a storm originally - there was no reserve team then - he had splashed the cash of Hall and Shepherd but to no avail. Yes we played great football - but Keegan, relative to the time, had as much as Jose at Chelsea was given - don't believe me? remember in 96 he bought BArton, Ginola, Shay Given, and Les Ferdinand in one close season alone - a year later he got Shearer for 15 million. He won nothing. The reason that the likes of Wenger, Fergie, Scolari get the last word on players is that they deliver. Wenger in particular buys cheap and sells for more - he's never had a Newcastle United budget.
Newcastle fans are very ungrateful for an owner that did try and balance the books - maybe he made two mistakes - Wise and Keegan. The fans - if that's what they are should turn up and support their club - especially if they want a proper investor - who's gonna invest without fans?

Football is turning into Cancer and spreading fast

Best Chairman is Butcher of Kirton United, he's invested more than £50 over the 200 years he has managed and ran the club. (He's still running it today).

Hmmmm. Very surprised. That many points for WBA? Absurd - Far, far too many. Masquerading as Premier League outfit/football club. Mike Norgrove , Exmouth - life-long Wolves fan.

Oh well said Mr Hawkins! Fjk seems to have forgotten all the abuse the Glazer family suffered when they first assumed control. 76000 glory hunters may inhabit Old Trafford but that surely pales into insignificance compared to the 50000 idiots who go to St James Park to see a team which hasnt won a major trophy since the late 1960's. Steve Gibson is the head kiddy amongst all this for me. Quietly going about his business and providing a small club in Yorkshire with dreams beyond all those imagined when Ayresome Park was closed down

Manure,(sorry,man utd),fans were so besotted with the Yank trailer-park owners that they promptly upped-sticks and formed their own club.
The Glazers have faced constant abuse,death-threats and a concerted "love united,hate glazer" campaign.
The 6 out of ten mark reflects the popularity of the owners,not the 70 odd thousand southern sheep who would travel up to watch the shirts being washed and who get off the Euston train at Piccadilly asking for directions to Old Trafford.
I would say that the assessment was more than generous.
Nice set of "fans" who print stickers bearing the message "three strokes and you're out" when Malcolm Glazer suffered a heart attack.
And people wonder why they are universally disliked?

Not sure how Eursport arrived at their marks out of ten; i can't comment for other clubs but the results for The Glazer family and Man Utd are way off the mark! I'm referring to the following...
1) Fan support: 6/10 - 76,000 full house every game at Old Trafford equates to 100%
2) Sticking power: 7/10 - Took over in 2005 and are still there in the background and going no where equates to another 100%
3) Letting the manager do his thing: 9/10 - I have not heard of one single incident where they have undermined any decision made by Sir Alex equates to another 100%
The fact that they have doubled their wealth is a clear indication of the ship under good control and heading in the right direction. I think the guys at Eurosport need to go back to the drawing board and re-evaluate their findings

Not that much wrong with Ashley. He bailed them out financially, sacked Big Sam when they wanted, brought back Keegan. The flaw in his plan was that he listened to the thick jocks that inhabit Newcastle. He should never have brought Keegan back, it was always going to end in tears. Now he is being hounded out of the club and it will be sold to Nigeria. Fortunately they have loads of money because I keep getting e-mails from there offering me £1 million. Be careful what you wish for!