Newcastle United have been panned more often than California gold!
You know, for not meekly accepting their place when Mike Ashley was balancing the books and unbalancing the team over a decade and a half. For not being grateful at what that nice Steve Bruce was achieving by keeping United up. For the unrealistic relentless demand of fans for trophies as though it was a Geordie right. And now merely for having Saudi owners.
It's been a never ending torrent of accusations levelled at the Toon when in reality we have been the biggest loyal supporters of failure this country has ever known. Fifty two thousand packing into St James' Park match upon match, season upon season, to witness yet another desperate relegation fight, some just won and two spectacularly failing and plunging a proud club into the abyss of the Championship.
