THINK I MIGHT START...

... To support Sheffield United while Mike Ashley continues to ruin our club.

I know nothing about the Blades other than they appear to be afraid of nothing, are up for every challenge and seem to slice through any team that stands in their way. Oh how brilliant it must be to support a team like that! A team that says, "Bring it on and we'll give it everything we've got!" Can you imagine?

Just think how it must feel to know that your team has given 100% - even if they haven't won!

Imagine not feeling sick that, yet again, you and your fellow supporters are being taken for mugs - and you're just letting it happen... again... and again... and again.

Here we are at the beginning of another transfer window and events have played so brilliantly into Ashley's hands. We have no manager, nor does there appear to be any urgency to appoint one and while we bob around like the rudderless ship we are, who in their right mind would sign up to play for us? On the other hand, we have players who can command a healthy sell on fee and they will be falling over themselves to get out of Toon. We've successfully exited the Cup and Ashley, from his (reinforced) sun lounger in Barbados must be deliriously ecstatic - and that'll be nothing to do with sunstroke either.

Still, despite everything we know about how the rest of the season is going to play out, we go to the matches in our droves and obsessively watch SSN for a snippet of good news on the yellow banner, we hang onto every rumour and check out Twitter for the latest sightings (at Newcastle airport with a football under his arm) and cling to the hope that we will get to the start of February with the squad we have now (inadequate though that may be) with no losses. (I don't imagine any of us is deluded enough to dream that we might bring players in!!! Ha haha haha ha.)

Mags?

WE ARE  NOT MAGS. WE'RE MUGS!