Sometimes it's hard to be a Newcastle fan. If it isn't enough to be lumped in with the perma-tanned, preened idiots on Geordie Shore, we have to contend with directors getting caught on tape slagging the club and the fans off, and with former players endlessly saying we're a laughing stock. And the worst part of it is, sometimes the club legitimately do deserve to be classified in that way: there have so many controversies and scandals at the club that we could probably write the manual on comical crisis management and PR disasters. Men have punched animals, men have punched and head-butted other men, and even worse, people entrusted with representing the club in public have made absolute clowns of themselves. As the latest silliness - involving a big screen and some cable-ties - threatens to open the club to further mockery, now is a good time to look back at the moments when Newcastle unfortunately (mostly) deserved to be called a laughing stock.
