Souness Gone

Another Newcastle manager bites the dust - been a while since we sacked someone, so you could tell it was coming. Actually, a series (or season) of shocking results, a gradual slip down the table towards a relegation battle, and a defence that can never stop the opposition scoring made it inevitable.

Souness did have to battle the biggest and most serious injury list I think I've seen at the club, which can't have made his job any easier. However, there have been rumours that some of this was his own doing - Mark Hughes criticized the Blackburn team he took over as being the least fit of any he has seen.

Anyway, the merry-go-round begins again - Shearer and Roeder in charge for the time being, with the usual list of names being touted around the news - personally, I'm hoping for Sven or Martin O'Neil, but given I've never had my wish yet, it's unlikely....

Comments from NUFC...

Owen's metatarsal and Boumsong's positioning won't instantly improve, but in terms of unity, tactics and motivation things could scarcely get any worse.

Souness said after the Manchester City game that he was getting everything he could out of his squad.

For that statement alone he deserved to go and it's up to those players to ram that statement down his throat by their actions on the pitch. The fightback begins here.

Howay the lads.