Author Profile - Simon Ritter ( 202 Posts )

Remember, the obnoxious oaf had been suspended because of a petulant foul in the semi-final but still managed to be the centre of attention on Chelsea’s greatest night while contributing absolutely zilch.

50,000 Newcastle fans will be happy to applaud whenever you can be arsed to sweat blood for the cause…

On leaving my final train of the day at Hove, I started talking to a Manchester United supporter (with the obligatory south-east accent)…

What I don’t expect any time soon is that we will be signing a striker even half as prolific as Jermain Defoe.

Newcastle fans can see that we have the players to escape the drop. Now is the time to let them play.

Jesus might have walked on water; Laurie Cunningham definitely floated across that quagmire.

I sincerely hope Sam Allardyce achieves something that remains missing from his pompously inflated CV, namely relegation.

Mourinho ever so quick to reject suggestions that success had been bought with the owner’s millions. “That’s rich,” I thought at the time.

Boycott: Who can say what Ashley’s reaction would be, if indeed he did react, to the sight of a half-empty St James Park?

Message for Newcastle players…’You don’t always get what you deserve but only rarely are you given more than you deserve’.