Derek the Llama says: That's it I'm trademarking SportsDirectFootball™ "Quality direct football at an affordable price. Directly to you." ...its not gonna be pretty and mostly its going to be down right dull and unpleasant, but you'll keep a bit of money in your pocket in the end.
Might want to sit down for this one.... http://www.themag.co.uk/the-mag-art...newcastle-united-warning-this-is-not-a-joke/?
Sky Sports has a story with quotes from Kinnear confirming it will happen. One of his tasks ostensibly will be recruitment and transfers (thought that was Carr's department?). I don't even know what to think.
Needless to say Twitter has gone apoplectic. Two schools of thought (among others): 1. Ashley feels sorry for Kinnear's health and had a standing offer for him to have some non-essential role at the club (and Kinnear is saying something else just because); 2. Kinnear is on board as the fallback as Ashley is trying to engineer Pardew leaving without having to pay him off. Don't particularly like either, but at least they help this make sense?
It is with great sorrow I announce the demise of Newcastle United: http://www1.skysports.com/football/...ar-to-control-recruitment-policy-at-Newcastle You thought we needed a defender? You thought we needed a striker? Nah, we needed another clown in the front office! Listen to the interview. Kinnear can't remember Lambias' name. He has yet to speak to Pardew. He talks like some wanker on big soccer, reading his resume to the SkySports interviewer and assuring us that had he not had a heart attack, Newcastle would not have gone down. This guy is a master of "Not My Fault." Doomed I tell you.
It's Ashley getting back at Pardew for being a c*nt...you need help? I'll give you help, I'll bring back Jokin here.
Quality Direct Football, it's entertaining and affordable both on and off the pitch! We have llamas! we have clowns!! The sheer absurdity of Yer Fookin joe Kinner's return is brilliant. The man is herpes. Hunter S Thompson on an ether binge couldn't have written this better. Oh my this will not end well, not at all.
"I know more about football than anyone at the club." -Joe Kinnear We had to take someone who's been out of football, who's last go around was a complete disaster?? He also said he knows more about tactics, so I expect he'll giving input there, solicted or not. These type of people need to be subservient to the manager to get the right type of players for how the team will be playing on match day. It sounds like we'll instead have two guys who are not on the same page. I only hope the result will not be relegation this time.
For ages now Kinnear has been telling anyone who will listen that he's coming back to our club, it had mostly been dismissed as the ramblings of a confused muppet. I'm still hopeful that this is another of those situations, which in itself says a lot about how idiotic this appointment is if it is actually true. So we're getting a director of football? Because it worked out so well the last time we tried it with Dennis f*cking Wise? I'm not even against the role in itself but Kinnear? If the role is to assist the manager and be responsible for the overall football ethos of the club then why appoint a footballing dinosaur? He's not even a has been, he's a never was. It isn't 1995 Mike. For f*ck's sake he was woefully out of touch 5 years ago.
Not to ruin the doom and gloom but I don't think this is the worst situation possible. Who actually liked DL in charge of the football side? The guy is a glorified casino host... IF (note the big if), this just means that a football guy handles Pardew's transfer paperwork etc, then it makes sense. Joe Kinnear isn't the best choice but at least the role makes sense.
Joe Kinnear's epic Talksport interview. http://theworldofsport.tumblr.com/p...-talksport-interview-remarkable#disqus_thread
We managed to sign the French national team and a couple of Senegalese strikers with the moppet in charge. Somehow I don't think we get the time of day with any of them if it had been JFK. I can't see what he brings to the table unless Ashley is planning to put the screws to the supporters again and he needs a distraction. Best we can hope for is that the football takes care of itself and we can all enjoy the sideshow. Thx, Jay!
The man is a f*cking head-case, seriously I'm still hoping its just his own mental ramblings, he has a loose grip on reality. Here's George Caulkin's blog from yesterday for those that missed it. Read it and then consider if it's really that bad:
Probably best you don't try and make sense of this. My head hurts just trying to comprehend it. Just shows you that for all his business acumen (Ashley), money can't buy you class, common sense or any sort of connection with the fans. Just some semblance of sensible PR would be a start.
[Buhl, ID: the Gosforth of the American Northwest. That's why United's mascot was almost a cartoon alligator... ]
Calling him Lambezi is just the first of a string of misremembered names at the club: C.C., Ben Afri, Gaultierrez, Yohan Kebab, and Amamobi? Wait a second, shouldn't he have remembered Ameobi?? Oh well, at least he's got Alex Fergeson on speed-dial.