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Craig HillUnited heap more misery on Keegan
February 24th 2008 11:02
With two goals each from Wayne Rooney and Christiano Ronaldo and a late goal from substitute Louis Saha, Manchester United inflicted a 5-1 humiliation on Kevin Keegan's Newcastle in front of their own fans at St James' Park yesterday.
After the game, Keegan said, "Confidence is very low. We need a win, just to get the club moving forward again, it's been a long time. It gets to the players and everyone and takes confidence away. We've got a fight on but I believe in them. We need 40 points to avoid relegation this year, and we have got 28. Anybody who has not got 40 points can be relegated, and in the past, teams with 42, 43 have."
When Keegan took over just a few weeks ago, Newcastle had just lost 6-0 at Old Trafford. His arrival was greeted as the return of the messiah by the Toon army, but as a strange move by most of the rest of the football world.
Since his arrival, Newcastle are yet to win a game, and in their last two games, a 4-1 defeat at Aston Villa and yesterdays embarrassment, they have looked clueless and spiritless.
At this stage it is hard to see where the Geordies are going to pick up the twelve points Keegan says they need to ensure survival.
Maybe the mid-table mediocrity achieved under Big Sam Allardyce wasn't so bad after all. Do you think Mike Ashley and the Toon army might be regretting the way they treated him?
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