The two main teams in the North East have been relegated today. I'm glad they have both gone to be honest, Middlesbrough as they have bored me to death on Match of the Day over the years and despite a great Uefa Cup a few years ago, they have played boring football. It was inevitable Newcastle went down-hill due to all the messing about with managers over the years. Firstly, the big mistake was Bobby Robson getting sacked as he got them Champions League football two seasons running and then a Uefa Cup spot, but as they had a bad few games at the start of the 2004-2005 season, he got sacked, so the club went down-hill from there with the spells of Greame Souness and Glen Roeder. Then in came Big Sam and everyone thought great, but he didn't succeed, so he was sacked. If you ask me, that was a mistake as I believe Big Sam would have got them back on track had he been given more time. Then Kevin Keegan came, purely on sentiment in my opinion. So he left (as he always does, but he was right to leave this time in my opinion as the politics of the club were all wrong), so in came Joe Kinnear, who obviously needs to go on a public relations course- had N'Zogbia for example have stayed, would Newcastle have been relegated today. Due to Kinnear's illness, in came Assistant Coach Chris Houghton who didn't have the know how to be a manager, so it was left to the legend that is Alan Shearer. A great player maybe, but having no managerial experience in a relegation fight isn't a good idea. The politics at the club is all wrong and this day has seemed likely for some time, due to the club's politics. There is no doubt about it, with the squad and the players the club have, had managers been treated better by the board, then there is no-way this team would have been relegated.
Do you have a barbed wire glove for BSDM-style fisting sessions?
