All 'Good' Things...
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- Written by Darren Douglas
Many papers and news outlets will be picking over the remains of Newcastle United's end to a 16 year tenure in the top flight today. Whilst relegation has looked like an increasing possibility in recent weeks, there is still a lot of shock and glee over the demise of the black and white Geordies. They say that all good things must come to an end, but really Newcastle United have been a miserable team for a few seasons now. As silly as it may sound, a season or more in the Championship might actually help to revitalise this ongoing 'sleeping giant'.
As is the norm when any team, particularly an established one gets relegated, there are masses of recriminations and questions. With Newcastle Utd it really isn't that difficult to see what has gone wrong, the club has increasingly become a walking soap opera- almost a self -parody. The mistakes of Mike Ashley have been frequent, ranging from bad PR to strange managerial choices, and he will naturally be the major scapegoat.
Manchester United, Inter Milan and Barcelona all scooped their domestic league titles last weekend. To achieve the feat the three clubs spent in the region of €200m between them on new players in 2008-2009. Little wonder then that they emerged victorious. But, in fact, the vast majority of that money was wasted on poor and ineffective signings. That they still emerged victorious after such large financial blunders tells of the pre-eminent clubs’ dominance. 
So it came to pass that Wednesday night was the final, final of the 
If I said the words “Luis Figo”, “non-alcoholic beer”, “street” and “drinkers”, how would you pin the four together?
I have to say that in my twenty odd years as a football fan I’ve never enjoyed a season as little as I’ve enjoyed this one.