OK, but...
...It's a fucking car crash.
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1402Rick Reuben wrote:He went to bed about a decade ago, or whenever he sold his soul to the bankers and the elites.daniel robert chapman wrote:I think he's gone to bed, Rick.
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1403Josef K wrote:I saw the interview with Shearer too and thought that he wasn't too happy with Keegan's appointment. It didn't sound as if they parted on very good terms either.
I doubt that very much. Why do you have the impression that Shearer wasn't too happy with Keegan being appointed?
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1404Either he wanted the job or he is pretending he did to save face.
run joe run wrote:Kerble your enthusiasm.
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1405tommydski wrote:Either he wanted the job or he is pretending he did to save face.
Newcastle is his club, remember he turned down Man Utd to come to Newcastle. Of course he would have liked to be offered the job, it is widely accepted that he will be probably offered the job at some point. But I'm sure he realized that this was not the correct time for him to take it on. He has the best interests of the club at heart.
Every time I have seen, read or heard Shearer talking about Keegan it is with respect, admiration, and awe.
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1406chairman_hall wrote:Every time I have seen, read or heard Shearer talking about Keegan it is with respect, admiration, and awe.
Yes, but every time I have seen, read or heard Shearer talking about creosoting a fence it is with respect, admiration, and awe.
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1407daniel robert chapman wrote:chairman_hall wrote:Every time I have seen, read or heard Shearer talking about Keegan it is with respect, admiration, and awe.
Yes, but every time I have seen, read or heard Shearer talking about creosoting a fence it is with respect, admiration, and awe.
He likes his chicken and beans too, apparently.
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1408I think Shearer would be privately relieved they passed him over. Right now he has a low stress, well paid job where the results no longer matter. Compare that to the strange terror of being a Premiership Manager in this day and age. Two or three losses on a trot is enough to get you fired these days. Looking at the top of the table right now I can't see Newcastle are going to find it easy to even secure a place in Europe. This season or the next. Remember that we're looking at another club with bottomless resources emerging soon.
Even if Newcastle have money to spend, I think they will still find it hard to attract the prestige players because of the attraction of other teams with similar spending power.
Even if Newcastle have money to spend, I think they will still find it hard to attract the prestige players because of the attraction of other teams with similar spending power.
run joe run wrote:Kerble your enthusiasm.
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1409From NUFC.com:
Shearer interview
Speaking to the BBC's Look North programme on Thursday evening, Alan Shearer had this to say:
Tell me about your reaction to Kevin getting the job:
"Delighted.
"I was as surprised as a lot of people but what he will bring is tremendous enthusiasm, great commitment and I think he will just bring a spark to the area.
"You saw the reaction to the game on Wednesday evening - that's the effect he has on the area.
"He knows the football club, the people and what they want. And he knows that they want a style of play there - they want to be entertained.
"He certainly did that the last time he was manager and I'm positive he'll do the same again."
Do you want the assistant's job if it's available?
"First and foremost, I don't know whether Kevin wants me as his number two and I don't know whether I want to be a number two.
"He hasn't been in the job very long. He needs to go into the football club, have a look around and see what he needs: whether he needs to bring his own people in or stick with the people who are already there.
"But if he was to ring me then of course I would speak to him because I have great respect for him."
Is it something you're considering already - or not until you get a phone call?
"No I haven't considered it - I haven't had anything to consider to be honest.
"He's his own man - I have tremendous respect for him.
"I worked with him as a player at Newcastle and England and I'm sure he'll do well and whoever he brings in - if anyone - it will be for the benefit of the football club."
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1410I think Shearer on Match of the Day said pretty much what you would expect him to say, in the tone that you would expect him to say it. That was why the addressing-the-nation simulcast seemed so ridiculous - he really revealed nothing. When he mentioned that he'd been phoned about the job - so he could be told that they were looking for someone with more experience - Lineker seized on this as if it were a stone tablet - "THEY PHONED YOU!!??!!"
"Well, yeah."
It was the same with the live coverage of Keegan's press conference today: did he actually say anything out of the ordinary (that wonderful City quote and the horrible theatre comment aside)? Anything that really needed to be broadcast live? I'm sure most people could wait until the evening paper to find out that Keegan is pleased to be back at Newcastle and thinks he can do well.
I'm not having a go at Newcastle - although they can be Paris Hilton-esque in their disbelief at the levels of media attention - but somewhere the sense of proportion has been lost. It's at the point where, had Eastenders been on when Keegan was announced, I bet the BBC would have considered a newsflash.
"Well, yeah."
It was the same with the live coverage of Keegan's press conference today: did he actually say anything out of the ordinary (that wonderful City quote and the horrible theatre comment aside)? Anything that really needed to be broadcast live? I'm sure most people could wait until the evening paper to find out that Keegan is pleased to be back at Newcastle and thinks he can do well.
I'm not having a go at Newcastle - although they can be Paris Hilton-esque in their disbelief at the levels of media attention - but somewhere the sense of proportion has been lost. It's at the point where, had Eastenders been on when Keegan was announced, I bet the BBC would have considered a newsflash.
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