Author Profile - Paul McIntosh ( 12 Posts )

Great analysis from Paul McIntosh leaves only one sensible conclusion – Alan Pardew has to go.

As the fans reel from the Yohan Cabaye fiasco, Paul McIntosh asks ‘ Are you really angry/surprised Joe Kinnear said something that wasn’t true?’

I think that he and Joe Kinnear are mates, Mike Ashley doesn’t know a huge amount about football as a sport, so he wants a ‘football person’ that he trusts operating at what is effectively boardroom level. Much as he had Dennis Wise doing a while ago. He undoubtedly has shocking taste in friends.

As fans we are being played for mugs. No doubt there will be attempts in the coming weeks to portray us, once again, as angry Cockney-hating, black & white coffin-carrying simpletons with an inability to recognise the skills of anyone but Geordie pure-bloods.

In the three years since we gained promotion back to the Premier League, we have sold eight players for a fee. Of the players we received money for, you would genuinely struggle to make a case for most of them currently being a regular in our starting XI; Forster, Enrique, LuaLua, Nolan, Routledge, Best, Carroll and Ba.

Since the euphoria of that last minute header by Papiss Cisse to put us through to the Europa quarter-finals it’s been a tough week to be a Newcastle fan.

No, not the performance on the pitch – that was poor of course. The real embarrassment was the cacophony of morons who decided to boo the team off at the final whistle.

This is in stark contrast to last season when we kept a clean sheet in 19 of our league matches and conceded just one in a further 10 of them.

Phantom trophies, perhaps. Trophies that require no polish, no shelf to put them on, but trophies all the same.

“Pardew definitely looks unhappy, you can tell if you read between the lines”. “Cabaye wants to leave – no doubt about it. You can tell from the way he’s been playing”.