10 Newcastle United Rumours That Need To Die Immediately

No grand homecomings, no romantic sales. We're stuck with this lot, so shut up.

It's good to have an imagination as a Newcastle fan: when you're starved of any actual success over almost fifty years, and have to live on the scraps of the Intertoto Cup and being nearly men a couple of times, imagining something better is sometimes the only thing you can grab on to. It also helps to delude yourself into thinking that some of the poorer players in the squad are anywhere near Premier League level when the manager persists with them instead of giving someone younger, more able and hungrier a chance. But at least that seems to be stopping around St. James' Park these days. But sometimes, the imaginations of not only fans, but also the column-churning media who see them as a quick buck gets out of hands and turns toxic. Newspapers sell stories of grand homecomings - because it sold so well when Shearer came back - or whisper conspiracy theories into the ears of fans who want to believe something more evil is at work than the club simply not being all that good anymore. And inevitably, because fans want positives to pass on and hope to grasp, they believe the stories. Yes, there are cynics, and rightly so, but the culture of misrepresenting silly stories in order to capture the attention of the hopeful or the more easily led must stop. And it should start with the death of these 8 ludicrous rumours that pop up every couple of weeks...
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