Disclaimer: I work, my parents work, and before them their parents worked and for many generations my family have worked. And I’m also a Newcastle United fan.
I had planned on this post being partly about the working class, but in fact I’ve found that it’s not going to be. Spurred on by this scathing attack of the people of Newcastle, I’ve jumped into action and with my trusty keyboard I’m wholeheartedly agreeing with the article.
Newcastle United, are a club in turmoil, a club that in recent weeks has become the laughing stock of English football. It all started when Kevin Keegan, a man heralded as the “Messiah” in these parts turned his back on the club which I have no doubt he loves, citing an unworkable system that was thrust upon him. Was he right to walk? If it wasn’t as promised then I’d say YES!
So the public get wind of this unrest and the whole drama is played out in public, and yet there is no official coherent voice coming out of St James (Newcastle United headquarters). So the fans are unsure. Has he left? Has he been sacked? Nada!
During this whole debacle a significant number of Geordies have managed to get time off, from sponging off the government, and have arranged for their state handouts to be delivered directly on-mass to Shearers bar (if only they’d know this earlier they could have saved themselves years of queuing) where they plan on spending the foreseeable future insulting “cockneys”, and not taking the time out to check that their grasp of “English” is sufficient to stop them looking like complete pillocks!
All in all it’s not been a great time for the region. The club is in disarray, and the governments education department have a great advert for what happens when you don’t attend school.
