Christmas Tree 4865 Posted August 26, 2009 Share Posted August 26, 2009 From NUFC.COM A year ago today Michael Owen scored an extra-time winner that gave us and manager Kevin Keegan a memorable victory at Coventry in the Carling Cup. However, the next day it was announced that man of the match, James Milner would be leaving, bound for Aston Villa for a reported fee of around £12m. Apparently Kevin Keegan had been told shortly after the victory that Milner would be sold in order to bring in funds to finance deals for other transfer targets. Milner left and in came Francisco Jiminez Tejada and Ignacio Gonzalez who had been sourced by our transfer recruitment trio; Dennis Wise, Jeff Vetere and Tony Jimenez. It was the final straw for Keegan who promptly resigned and our downward spiral has continued to gather pace ever since. It's difficult to believe the catalogue of blunders that followed but where will we be this time next year? Have we hit rock bottom or is worse to follow....? Until you see it in print, its difficult to believe this all happened within 12 months. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fop 1 Posted August 26, 2009 Share Posted August 26, 2009 Pretty amazing the damage done in a year. Although in fairness the damage was being done for a while longer, just it wasn't been seen publicly, still it could easily have been turned around from this point last year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackandwhiteboy 0 Posted August 26, 2009 Share Posted August 26, 2009 I guess it's pointless speculating but I wonder where we'd be now if the board had got rid of Wise and sided with Keegan. Not in the Championship that's my bet... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ewerk 31238 Posted August 26, 2009 Share Posted August 26, 2009 I guess it's pointless speculating but I wonder where we'd be now if the board had got rid of Wise and sided with Keegan. Not in the Championship that's my bet... Would it have helped though? Would it have prevented the continued lack of investment in the first team? Would it have prevented the sale of Given? Hard to say how it would have turned out but one thing is for sure, Keegan wouldn't have Ashley's bitch the way JFK was. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fop 1 Posted August 26, 2009 Share Posted August 26, 2009 I guess it's pointless speculating but I wonder where we'd be now if the board had got rid of Wise and sided with Keegan. Not in the Championship that's my bet... Would it have helped though? Would it have prevented the continued lack of investment in the first team? Would it have prevented the sale of Given? Hard to say how it would have turned out but one thing is for sure, Keegan wouldn't have Ashley's bitch the way JFK was. We'd have got at least 1 more point under Keegan without a shadow of a doubt. Given probably wouldn't have gone too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest alex Posted August 26, 2009 Share Posted August 26, 2009 What highlights the incompetence of those in charge more than anything else (and shows that Ashley will do what the fuck he likes and damn the consequences) is that they eventually sacked Wise anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackandwhiteboy 0 Posted August 26, 2009 Share Posted August 26, 2009 I guess it's pointless speculating but I wonder where we'd be now if the board had got rid of Wise and sided with Keegan. Not in the Championship that's my bet... Would it have helped though? Would it have prevented the continued lack of investment in the first team? Would it have prevented the sale of Given? Hard to say how it would have turned out but one thing is for sure, Keegan wouldn't have Ashley's bitch the way JFK was. Lack of investment no but the whole atmosphere would have been a lot more positive and i doubt Given would have gone. He genuinely cared about the club and only left because it was such a mess and quite frankly, he deserved better. I don't think it's unrealistic to think we would have finished comfortably in mid table (12th perhaps) if he'd stayed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maggiespaws 0 Posted August 26, 2009 Share Posted August 26, 2009 I dont know about comforatble 12th, but I certainly believe we'd still be a premiership club. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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