Goodbye King Kev

He's resigned now - I've not been this angry in a long time.

Will be interested to see :

a) Who Ashley & co. try to install as the new manager. If it's Wise, then they DEFINITELY don't understand what fans up here are like. The guy is universally despised, and seen as pivotal to the issues KK brought up over the last few days.

b) How many turn up to the Hull game, how loud they are - and what they're chanting!!

c) Will Ashley dare to sit with the fans at any game, anytime soon? He better have minders with him; or get someone to check his pint for arsenic. He's totally underestimated how KK was viewed up here. The 'Messiah' thing is a joke created by the London media to paint Toon fans as mindless zealots, the reality is that the guy was extremely well liked and respected as being 'one of us' who would always give you a straight answer and made the players understand what it means to the fans to wear the shirt.

d) Who even declares an interest in a manager's job where it's now explicit that control over players in/out is completely and utterly out of their hands...?

When Kev was first asked about Wise coming in, he said that 'he (ie. KK) still retains full control over comings and goings'. The position was simply meant to provide a streamlined scouting network to largely suggest YOUNGER players to sign for the long run, nothing to do with proper first team matters in most respects. Did KK misunderstand, was he lied to, or did the goalposts change?

Already the media are laughing their arses off over 'crybaby' Keegan running away again (gimme a break, learn to read) and what a joke the Toon are.

They can only really import a foreign manager now, who is totally compliant and used to working 'the european way' where, basically, they simply and purely coach what they are given by the higher-ups, and keep their trap shut. I didn't rate Curbishley, but KK and Curbs walking within a couple of days over essentially the same issue? This has to be a wake-up call that this is two more clubs turning into corporate committees, and away from their roots.

Could you see the Glaziers telling Fergie who to buy? I think not.

I read someone elsewhere make a really good point - look at Portsmouth! They were sinking out of sight under the 'new european way', but as soon as they cleared out the totally unnecessary 'admin & meddling' layer at the club and let Harry wheel and deal, they were on the up and up.

Iam seething.Even if 'the new guy' somehow steadies the ship, it'll take an awful lot to bring the fans back on-side, and Ashley & co. will be stained badly by this. He needs to sell up, take his cronies (all of them - Wise, Vetere, Llambias, Jimenez) and play Champ Manager 08 or something, where he cannot revive then slowly strangle a real club ever again.