ASHLEY IS TO BLAME: SHEPHERD.FORMER Newcastle United chairman Freddy Shepherd Freddy Shepherd (born 1942) is an English businessman and the former chairman of Newcastle United Football Club. During his time at Newcastle, both as an active assistant to and later replacement of Sir John Hall as Chairman for ten years, Shepherd proved an often outspoken insists Mike Ashley Mike Ashley could refer to:
Shepherd sold the club to Ashley nearly two years ago having himself suffered criticism for his running of the club. Since then, however, the Magpies have lurched from crisis to crisis and are staring stare v. stared, star·ing, stares v.intr. 1. To look directly and fixedly, often with a wide-eyed gaze. See Synonyms at gaze. 2. To be conspicuous; stand out. 3. relegation in the face heading into the last game of the season. Shepherd said: "Relegation would be an absolute disaster in terms of corporate and the crowd. "It took us 12-15 years to get a big ground, a great academy and a good set of players. We left and all of a sudden there's a disaster. And you can't make a profit out of a disaster. "One thing that is really upsetting is the whingeing that is going on. They blame everyone but themselves. They have to look at themselves and say 'what have we done wrong here?' and not start blaming other people. Every year we were there we made a profit. There is only one person to blame and that's the guy who decides who is going to run the club." |
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