I’m sure the hundreds of protesting Newcastle fans who made their voices clearly heard after Saturday’s humiliation against Sheffield United will be suitably pacified now that they know that Geordie top dog Freddy Shepherd has been in to see Glenn Roeder and the players and has reminded them exactly what he and the club expect of them.

Sadly there doesn’t seem to be anyone who is able to take a quick visit to Fat Freddy’s office and fill him in on exactly what the fans, players and management expect of him and maybe point out that spending millions of pounds of other people’s money doesn’t constitute a transfer policy (not a sustainable or successful one anyway) and the continued pressure on manager after manager under Shepherd’s stewardship should maybe get the finger of blame pointing a little higher in the Newcastle corridors of power than Glenn Roeder’s office.

With David Beckham looking like getting ready for a move (LA Galaxy or Newcastle United?) and Sven hovering around the Premiership to help bump up his paypacket like a spectre of footballing death I’m quite sure many Newcastle fans can see all the old mistakes being made all over again in an attempt to patch over the real gaping holes in the Newcastle United empire which are really the root cause of the problem. Freddy Shepherd sized holes in fact.

Surely it’s no coincidence, is it? At least Freddy’s put the player straight anyway this week so he can now get his mug in the papers again and then head back to that office on high, content in the knowledge that he’s done all he can to right the wrongs of those incompetents he employs.

Is it vanity or ineptitude that keeps him clinging on? Like most Premiership chairmen and owners I think it’s a little bit of both and rather a larger portion of the infamous green folding stuff that makes the world really go round, whether it’s Kevin Keegan, Ruud Gullit, Keny Dalglish, Bobby Robson, Graeme Souness or Glenn Roeder waiting on the directions to the exit door coming down in the morning mail.

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