(09 Jan 2014, 10:36 am)andreos1 wrote Although aware of him at Bolton, my first proper taste of him came when he arrived at SJP.
He got off to a cracking start, but quickly lost the players - never more evident than the game at home against Liverpool in the late November.
I hadn't seen anything like the venom from the crowd towards a manager, not even in the dark days of Ardiles, Dalglish, Gullit or Souness!
There was a poisonous atmosphere that afternoon.
If I remember rightly, wasn't he on a rocky road the moment he entered SJP, Fat Mike had not yet bought the club and Big Sam was not who the Fat Man wanted?
I remember the days of Ardiles, Dalglish, Gullit, I must admit I have enjoyed watching Newcastle over the years, they can play some attractive football, I quite liked Dalglish, met him after a game at SJP in 1999, he was lovely and funny, I was talking to him and he said to me in a broad Glasweigian accent 'slow down son, I cant understand whag your saying' to which I replied 'Fucking hell Kenny, your a one to talk, I need a translator' which creased him up...
Anyway Gullit was a joke, dropping Shearer and Ferguson that night against Sunderland, he was asking for the sack with that tactic, whicb if it paid off for him would have probably seen Alan Shearer out the door.
Newcastle today are playing some good football, I dont really think much of Pards, but he has put a good team together and there a good side for now