Where’s our next trophy coming from?
Posted on March 14th, 2011 | 41 Comments |
I haven’t been on top form lately so I’m just throwing a few things together to give us something to talk about.
It’s always rotten on a weekend when there is no game, particularly when it’s one where your wife cuts all your hair off with a pair of garden sheers. That’s true by the way. Ask Worky – he saw the photo.
Obviously I exaggerated with the garden sheers bit, although not by much. Hair has long departed this writer’s head and the prospect of adding the word ‘style’ after it is frankly ludicrous. It’s one of them oxymoron things that were all the rage a while back (although I could never afford one). So my wife set about me with clippers and a razor.
An hour later we’d mopped all the blood away, filed for divorce and torn the cat in half for custody reasons. And I came upstairs with bog roll on my head to stem critical blood flow and thought there are tougher things than being a Newcastle supporter, even if they don’t involve being married to a homicidal wife with a passion for murdering by haircut.
This got me, by my usual rambling way, around to thinking about trophies (although not those given out for haircuts obviously).
How much does a trophy matter?
Let me qualify that and tell you about how I was thinking. Under ‘The Entertainers’ era we came close to winning both the league and the cup and, yes, some of it was frustrating. But do you know what? We were still the better team. I must qualify that too. We had every neutral behind us just because of the way we played and I reckon that meant something in that we were ‘better’ entertainment.
But, still getting to my point (slowly!). I think sometimes a supporter has to take more than trophies as a measure of success.
Cups are luck. No, really, they are. One lucky win can get you there as opposed to 38 games over a season where, I think we all know, it’s money that counts most.
What are our prospects of trophies?
And whilst we wait on them what other measures of success do we use?
So, in 1, 3, 5 years time, what is a ‘successful’ Newcastle?
Off to bathe my head and glue the cat back together.
Still being in the premier lge, challenging the top 6, with 3 or 4 of today’s youth team becoming key first team players…..ie vuckic, street, airey