8 Most Ridiculous Newcastle United Rumours That Never Happened

8. Mick Harford And JFK's Shadow Recruitment Team

Joe Kinnear, amongst a plethora of verbose ramblings, professed to holding the key that could open any door in football and would use his power for the greater good of Newcastle United.

Buying players proved to be an obstacle Kinnear, a close ally of Mike Ashley's, failed to overcome in the eight months he ran amok at St James' Park with the title of Director of Football under his name and instead sought to employ his friends, carrying on the 'jobs for boys' culture that had earned him the powerful post of our transfer mover-and-shaker.

Mick Harford - a former Magpies striker in the early 1980's - was linked the role as Kinnear's deputy in a move Toon fans feared would be the first phase of a shadow recruitment team coming together under our own roof having worked together at Wimbledon, Nottingham Forest and Luton.

Thankfully it didn't come to pass as Harford came to his senses and declined the offer from Kinnear following a round of lengthy talks with his old chum and Ashley and took the assistant manager's role at Millwall insteadn

The human profanity generator walking the plank in February much to our devilish delight.