Newcastle United - WhatCulture End-Of-Season Awards

The Toon may have cancelled their awards - but we have some of our own to dish out...

Newcastle United are safe for another season then. It wasn't pretty, but Moussa Sissoko and Jonas Gutierrez ensured that it would be Hull City and not the Magpies who dropped out of the Premier League and into the Championship alongside Burnley and Queens Park Rangers. So bad had the Magpies' plight been that the club had even taken the decision to cancel their end-of-season awards party, meaning Newcastle United did not officially recognise the various "achievements" of their squad this season. For a side who can boast claiming just three victories in 2015, conceding a mammoth 63 goals, going for 10 games without a victory (including losing nine of those, eight of which were in succession), as well as losing five Tyne-Wear derbies in a row for the first time ever, among their considerable achievements, this seems strange. Our @WhatCultureNUFC writers, Chris Waugh (@ChrisDHWaugh) and Ross Tweddell (@TwedzTweets), have followed the Magpies' progress - or lack thereof - all campaign, however, and they felt it was a severe shame that Newcastle had cancelled their end-of-season awards. So Chris and Ross put their heads together and came up with an array of awards that could and should have been handed out to the Newcastle United staff at the end of the 2014-15 season...
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NUFC editor for WhatCulture.com/NUFC. History graduate (University of Edinburgh) and NCTJ-trained journalist. I love sports, hopelessly following Newcastle United and Newcastle Falcons. My pastimes include watching and attending sports matches religiously, reading spy books and sampling ales.