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Who wouldn’t want to be the next Joe Harvey? Cup winning Newcastle United captain and the last manager to lift any sort of major silverware at St James’ Park over 46 years ago now.
Newcastle are now in a desperately uncertain search for a manager, or head coach as they insist on calling the position now with absolutely no say in any transfers and the like.
It has always been said that the Newcastle job is one of the most poisoned chalices in football with the Geordie public, their fickleness, over inflated expectations, misplaced sense of entitlement and unparalleled delusion.
They’re an impossible crowd to please, you know.
This most incorrect of stereotypes has made a number of high profile candidates for the job turn their back. They forgot about managing an institution the size of Newcastle United and all the glory that comes with it.
Who wouldn’t want to be the next Joe Harvey? Cup winning Newcastle United captain and the last manager to lift any sort of major silverware at St James’ Park over 46 years ago now.
Newcastle are now in a desperately uncertain search for a manager, or head coach as they insist on calling the position now with absolutely no say in any transfers and the like.
It has always been said that the Newcastle job is one of the most poisoned chalices in football with the Geordie public, their fickleness, over inflated expectations, misplaced sense of entitlement and unparalleled delusion.
They’re an impossible crowd to please, you know.
This most incorrect of stereotypes has made a number of high profile candidates for the job turn their back. They forgot about managing an institution the size of Newcastle United and all the glory that comes with it.
- 5/8/2015
- by Ross Tweddell
- Obsessed with Film
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Unless Newcastle manage to pull something spectacular out of the bag this year, the 45 years of hurt that have stretched out since Joe Harvey lead the Magpies to Fairs Cup glory in 1969 and tied his name into Tyneside history forever will continue towards the dreaded 50 mark.
Since that momentous occasion, the Magpies have made 30 managerial appointments, including caretakers and interim bosses and the results have been very much a mixed bag. Sadly, not even those good enough to be classed as heroes, or even to be knighted by the Queen have managed to return the days of silverware to Tyneside, with only a few near misses.
But which manager deserves to be crowned the very best since Joe Harvey hung his managerial suit up for the last time in 1975, and who deserves to be ridiculed as the very worst? Let’s start by...
Unless Newcastle manage to pull something spectacular out of the bag this year, the 45 years of hurt that have stretched out since Joe Harvey lead the Magpies to Fairs Cup glory in 1969 and tied his name into Tyneside history forever will continue towards the dreaded 50 mark.
Since that momentous occasion, the Magpies have made 30 managerial appointments, including caretakers and interim bosses and the results have been very much a mixed bag. Sadly, not even those good enough to be classed as heroes, or even to be knighted by the Queen have managed to return the days of silverware to Tyneside, with only a few near misses.
But which manager deserves to be crowned the very best since Joe Harvey hung his managerial suit up for the last time in 1975, and who deserves to be ridiculed as the very worst? Let’s start by...
- 11/17/2014
- by Simon Gallagher
- Obsessed with Film
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