Blue Mondays and yellow bellies!
Posted on June 22nd, 2009 | 34 Comments |
And so another week begins and what do we have to show for it? No updates on the sale of the club and a rotten new strip.
Quite what possessed the designers to come up with yellow and white (or is it cream?) stripes is beyond me. As a wise supporter has already pointed out today, yellow has been a feature of our history for a long time now.
However, none of the previous efforts was quite as sickly as the current offering. Somewhere between an ice-cream parlour canopy and a bottle of perfume, it manages to look worse on than off. The inevitable jibe about the colour of the yellow stripe being reasonably symbolic of the fight and endeavour (or lack thereof) displayed by the players last season, already doing the rounds.
So what else is new? Well Michael Owen has been quoted as saying he believes he’ll leave the club when his contract is up. Not that any of us had much doubt but these are a few excerpts from Owen’s interview with Sky Sports News –
“I don’t think I am going to be re-signing at Newcastle,”
“I don’t think I am going to be offered a new contract and I want to play in the Premier League or a top division somewhere else.”
“I’m still a Newcastle United player but only for a matter of weeks”
So there you have it in print. Any doubts now laid to rest and Mr Owen off on his next adventure sooner rather than later. Ah yeah, and it would seem we’re playing Shamrock Rovers at their place in July. No disrespect to a very successful Irish side but in the grand scheme of things……woo-a-hoo.
And I’m afraid that’s about it. I can’t remember feeling so disheartened about the future of my football club. Impatience is a ridiculous emotion because there’s little or nothing you can do about it other than convince yourself that something will eventually have to happen.
Or will it?
“And I’m afraid that’s about it. I can’t remember feeling so disheartened about the future of my football club.”
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Snap BBM. I felt particularly sour about things this morning.
Surely we’re at rock bottom now though (please!).