Usually when a new manager joins a football club a fresh feeling of new found optimism sweeps through the air.
The players are extra motivated, keen to impress, the fans have an extra spring in their step and the ’honeymoon period’ often yields a few early results.
Somehow I don’t expect that to happen up at Newcastle and neither do those following the latest scores at St James’ Park.
The supporters were incensed at the news of Chris Hughton’s sacking earlier this week. The former Tottenham assistant was a popular figure with the Geordie faithful after re-building the shattered squad following relegation in 2009, leading them to the Championship title and guiding them to a comfortable mid-table position in the Premier League.
They have a reputation for being the division’s resident crisis club and in the past their passionate fans have often contributed to the feeling of hysteria that surrounds St James’ Park.
But on this occasion this was all of owner Ashley’s own making. The fans appreciated Hughton for what he did and saw him as the safe pair of hands the club needed.
Those assessing the Live football scores regularly believe that Ashley’s bizarre desire for someone with more experience has created needless disruption within a club keen to have a nice, calm, uneventful season – for once.
The appointment of Alan Pardew – hardly the big name the sacking of Hughton justified – has further riled the supporters.
They will, as ever, get behind their team but it can’t be denied that Pardew will have a fight on his hands if he is to appease the supporters who feel betrayed once more by their club’s chairman - He
received only 14 votes in a poll run by a local newspaper, less than 2% of the vote.
Pardew faces a tough baptism against Liverpool on Saturday, though I expect he will have more than just the opposition to overcome in the coming weeks.
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