Call me cynical, but it was only a matter of having to wait till that 'large' football club up in the North East awarded one of their thugs, sorry, players with a wage increase shortly after a hand-bags at ten paces fracas on the pitch.

Yes, I'm talking about 'England International' Kieron Dyer, who after getting his nose powdered by 'team mate' and fellow would-be footballer Lee Bowyer (who in a normal society would be spending time at Her Majesty's leisure), is set to get an increase in his wages purportedly in the region of £60,000 per week.

And the actual crime here is that some gullible people are prepared to set aside part of their weekly income in order to afford this 'footballer's' hard-earned wage!

Yup, it could only by the loyal fans of the Toon Army (or, the fair-weather fools of a club masquerading as a Premiership outfit) prepared to do this.

Some people obviously lead sheltered lives.

Craig Bellamy certainly thinks so. :D

Apparently his phone got nicked and he didn't send those abusive texts to Alan Shearer and Freddie Shepard. :rolleyes:

And then there is Souness trying to worm his way out of it by saying that the team are a bunch of bad eggs inherited from Sir Bobby Robson. Funny thing is Robson never seem to have all this trouble controlling them.

The facts are that Souness isn't up to the task allotted. He was on the verge of getting sacked at Blackburn when Newcastle unbelievably came in for him. I bet Blackburn were relieved as they were probably going to have to pay Souness off and then they got compensation from Newcastle. :D