More To Life Than Winning (and takeovers)
Like the rest of you, I'm sick and tired of this Newcastle United takeover. It has been protracted and damaging and the sooner it is finished and Alan Shearer is belatedly installed as manager the better.
In fact, I'm heading off on a week's holiday on Tuesday and if it hasn't been finalised by the time I return to civilisation after my little adventure in Eastern Europe I'm going to tear what little hair I have left out in a fit of petulant rage.
Either that or issue a bomb scare at the office of Seymour Pierce. Actually, sorry, no officer, that was just a bad joke. I would never dream of doing such a thing...although I do still have that brief case from Sunderland's 2018 bid launch!
However, before I leave for (another) well-deserved break I would just like to pay tribute to the British and Irish Lions following the fantastic series against South Africa.
Winning is everything in professional sport, except it's not, well not all of the time anyway, it would be rather sad and pointless for the millions of people who participate if it was.
The Lions have won respect and admiration even in defeat and that is a lesson to us all. You can't win all of the time, but you can always give it your best as my PE teacher once said to me after a rather one-sided 13-1 defeat in which I had been given a torrid time by the opposition's 6ft centre forward.
Thankfully the Lions pushed South Africa rather closer than that and have every right to feel they could, and perhaps should, have won the series given the circumstances of all three magnificent Test matches.
I would have mentioned the Lions a lot earlier, but Nick Purewal is supposed to do a rugby blog and I didn't want to step on his public school toes. Anyway, it has enthralled me from start to finish and I can't believe anyone would question the Lions concept.
I like rugby, but never have I been so engrossed in a tour as this one and never have I relished a victory as much as last weekend's 28-9 win over the bully-boy Springboks.
To listen to the players who describe it as the biggest honour of the game and the thousands of supporters who have travelled, at great expense, to South Africa to watch them, this is a concept which belongs firmly in the future and not just the past. Let's hope the bureaucrats and pencil pushers remember that.
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Luke Edwards - is Chief Sports Writer of The Journal and uses his blog to give a unique and entertaining insight into events at Newcastle United and Sunderland.
Great blog - couldn't agree more about the Lions. Shame about the series but sometimes you've got to take it on the chin. When it came to showing who had class the Lions came out well on top of the Saffers who had none. Also worth saying that McGeechan is one of if not the best coach the British Isles has ever had.
Sorry Luke, not with you on this one. Winning and winning fairly is what it is all about. Stuff this PC lark, that everyone in the school sports day should get a medal and all that garbage that it is not about winning, its the taking part that counts - Bovine Scatology!
Yes the Lions did well but after we took a commanding lead in the second test, sloppy handling let the Boks straight back in. Discipline was missing, jusst like most of the season at Newcastle. It was the Toon's sloppy play and lack of fight that saw us go down.
As Toon supporters we crave to win something and no doubt you will say, maybe getting relegated is a good thing cos we might win promotion! So lets not kid ourselves it is winning that counts!
Finally how on earth can Stuart Rayner write in yesterday's Journal an article saying "Mike Ashley will have to lower his £100m asking price to achieve the quick sale of Newcastle United" then within hours you have writen an article published this morning claiming Seymour Pierce "have now received four bids for the club, with at least two of them matching the £100m asking price." And you say your "sick and tired of this Newcastle United takeover" at least you have not shelled cash for the paper to read such contradictive reports!!!!!