Premier League Nonsense

Kevin Keegan for some reason still excites fans who love his boyish enthusiasm but will that be enough to see the former England captain and manager ever work again? It seems that the beer swilling Mike Ashley appointed King Kev in a vanity bid to win over the fans rather than for sound footballing reasons. I mean let's face it. A guy who by his own admission hadn't seen a game for three years?

Keegan is a serial walker outer having done it before at Newcastle, Fulham, England and Manchester City. In fact the only title he can claim is, oddly for a manager in such a risky business, is that he has never been sacked. Truly remarkable. Of course he hasn't won anything either and that is surely how a manager should be guaged.

Newcastle United are a mess but then that is their role. They along with Manchester City and Tootenham are the Marx Brothers of the Premier League. Their role is to bring light relief to the masses bored with teh tedium of Manchester United, Arsenal and Chelsea dominating all before them. Fans of other clubs, northern shit pot sides like Blackburn, Bolton and Accrington Stanley need to be able to look at St James Park, Eastlands and White Hart Lane and go phew. Thank fuck I don't follow that shower of shit. They make you feel less bad about your side's consistent underachieving.

Football is about what happens on the pitch. Newcastle are a hoot as a soap opera and will remain so for a long time to come. A populist beer swilling chairman makes for a great Mike Baldwin but I'm sure glad he ain't infecting my club.