A question rather than a definitive point. Newcastle fans went NUTSO at the start of the season to get Pardew out. Banners, websites, chants the lot. He stayed but there was a remarkable turn in fortune ending with them beating Chelsea. Would that have happened without the protests? For me no...
Blimey. It's been a tough contest but you win "most ridiculous post of the year" and, with only three weeks left of it I don't think you will be beaten. Ernest is, of course, a characature but, knowing who he is in real life he certainly wasn't a shrinking violet back in the day. HB&B...
That's where the die hard support comes from. However there are plenty of rugby club and City types around the ground or at least there were until the Wigan game when only the hardcore turned up again. Those empty seats? The people who piss off on 83 minutes? They're not from Whitehawk I can...