Paddys some it right up (so they do!)

from eleven-a-side.com

If you sent it to your best mate as a joky text message, he’d laugh out loud. Joe Kinnear? Him of the Crazy Gang Wimbledon bruisers? At Newcastle? You’re ‘aving a laugh, intcha? How in the ‘eck did it come to this?

From King Kev to Long Ball Joe in three short weeks. Sunderland fans must be laughing themselves sore.

If the protests against Mike Ashley and his so-called Cockney Mafia were venomous last weekend, they’ll be nothing compared to the sort of welcoming mat which will surely be rolled out on Saturday.

St James’s Park’s smallest crowd in more than 16 years turned out for Wednesday’s Carling Cup game against Tottenham.

But that was the Carling Cup. And that was before Kinnear had been announced as the man to steer the Magpies ship through choppy waters.

Blackburn Rovers are the visitors to Tyneside on Saturday. And they’ll be greeted to the latest crazy episode of the best soap opera in the land.

Because forget Eastenders. Forget Corrie. For so-bad-you-can’t-help-watching, for real rubber-necking, have a gander at St James’s Park this weekend.

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