If no one likes us I don’t care… | OneFootball

The first ever 45 I bought was Perfect Day by Aussie band The Saints.

It cost 45p and I was 12 years old.

Singles at the time were 75p, so a bargain for a punk band I had never heard of.

The next purchases were The Stranglers and The Clash, then Jilted John.

I have never looked back musically from that point on and currently journey to work listening to Kid Kapichi and Bob Vylan, who carry the same punk rock anti-establishment attitude of almost half a century ago.

Giving me the start to the day with the very correct mindset to work with youngsters from one of the most deprived areas of Britain. Not that the Charlton and Millwall lads need my direction. There seems to be an in-bred anti-everyone attitude with them, which I sort of understand and empathise with. Salt of the Earth kids in my book.

No one likes us we don’t care being their anthem. An us against them feeling which seems to me to be filtering into the Newcastle United support since the takeover.

A sense of the outsider not being accepted, as you might rock the boat of the established order. The people who should not be there and are not wanted. What better incentive is there?

Previously, a club of Newcastle’s stature picked up crumbs of comfort from small victories under Benitez. The big clubs were happy to see us struggle, fearful of our huge support and subsequent potential. We all know who the establishment and mainstream media teams are and they don’t want interlopers.

Twenty five years ago, Man City was fighting in a play-off final to escape the old Division Three, don’t forget. Now look at them.

The established teams are a relatively new concept that has been amplified by world media publicity.

So where does this leave Newcastle United?

Rule changes were created to, in effect, stop Newcastle United from shaking the accepted order up. Forced to sell a Champions League player of immense potential and to sell one of our own, a local lad who supports his boyhood team.

All so we fit into the newly manufactured rules of the establishment. Created on the hoof to try and stop Newcastle United, but also hitting the likes of Forest, for their attempt to establish themselves and potentially be a threat to the football equilibrium.

In the media onslaught of our club, we see the repeated nonsense regurgitated about the Saudi ownership.

I have lost count of the number of articles on The Mag that show opposition supporters’ comments where they use the term “blood money.” Crystal Palace supporters are the worst offenders, paying for a banner to be unfurled in the Holmesdale Road End attacking our ownership and in effect who we are, and all at the same time as their own club taking money from the Saudi regime.

We know all the big clubs and their supporters don’t like us because they are scared that we are going to smash their monopoly.

It just seems a long time since Newcastle United was everyone’s second team simply because we were playing attacking football and upsetting the established football order.