More of more of the same

With reference to my post of two weeks ago ('More of the same'), I know I said that the owners systematically dismantle the team by selling the best players, and that humiliation was never far away for Newcastle fans. It gives me no pleasure to be right again. Andy Carroll in a Newcastle shirt just looked so right. He was local, a product of the club, an exciting and edgy presence and now, like Paul Gascoigne, our last prodigy, he's gone. The club have taken the money, they've got nothing to replace him with, and he's a young man out in the world with a huge price tag and massive expectations on his shoulders.

Let's hope that's where the similarity ends.