Fat Sam, Ugly Fred, the Barcodes and all

[monty]

Like who?

All their fans were clambering to keep Roeder full time after his first few games...

The amount of money he has put into that football club doesn't warrant the abuse he gets from them.

Danny, look at the appointments he's amde, Souness was a belter. Look at the underwhelming success they achieved, passionate fans continually let down by false dawns, simple as that, and he was in charge on top of which he is ugly

 

[Dylan]

I can maybe see the Souness appointment. He is a disciplinarian, and they where having all those problems with Bellamy, Boyer and Jenas(??). That still doesn't excuse firing Bobby Robson though!

 

[monty]

I can maybe see the Souness appointment. He is a disciplinarian, and they where having all those problems with Bellamy, Boyer and Jenas(??). That still doesn't excuse firing Bobby Robson though!

as far as barcode fans are concerned all that crap is down to one man, UF, imo they have it right, at last

 

[SuitsBlue]

the man has complete disdain for the fans describing them as fat slags who will buy a new team shirt every time one is released.

News of the World Exposé

In March 1998, Shepherd and Douglas Hall were the target of a News of the World exposé, led by the “Fake Sheikh” Mazher Mahmood. The pair, believing Mahmood to be a wealthy Arab prince trying to set up a business deal, were caught mocking the club's own supporters for spending extortionate amounts of money on merchandise, calling female supporters “dogs”, and mocking star striker Alan Shearer by calling him the "Mary Poppins of football", all while frequenting a brothel.

Amidst heavy media coverage, the Newcastle Independent Supporters Association and the then Minister for Sport, Tony Banks, called for the resignation of the pair[7]. Although reports from sources close to Shepherd initially indicated he was contractually unable to resign, he and Hall had both left their posts within two weeks of the scandal breaking.

Only ten months after resigning, Shepherd and Hall, the majority shareholders at Newcastle, voted themselves back on to the board. This led to the immediate resignation of the PLC chairman David Cassidy, who had taken the position just six months earlier. Shepherd has since taken over as PLC chairman.

Sacking of Bobby Robson

In August 2004, Shepherd fired manager Bobby Robson four games in to the new season. In the week before the sacking, Shepherd was quoted as saying that Robson would not be offered a new deal at the end of the season, and that Robson would be “in the Guinness Book of Records” if he were still the manager at 73 years old[10]. It is unclear if Shepherd made his statement after consulting Robson, but Robson admits that he had an agreement with the club that he would retire at the end of the season. Robson also stresses that there was an agreement that he would not be sacked[11]. Afterwards, Shepherd said that sacking Robson was “the hardest thing I have ever done in my life”, but then added “I didn’t want to be known as the man who shot Bambi"[12].

In his 2005 autobiography Sir Bobby Robson provides detailed criticism of Shepherd's chairmanship, claiming that while manager he was denied information regarding the players' contracts and transfer negotiations. He also criticised Shepherd and Douglas Hall, the club's deputy chairman, for their focus only on the first team and St James' Park, causing them to neglect less glamorous, although equally important, areas such as the training ground, youth development and talent scouts. The club's training ground has been notorious in the past, due to its unkempt state, for causing injuries to first team players.

the mans a pillock (FS) and when poll and maradona have kicked the bucket i hope he (FS) is following quick on the midnight train to the big adios.