5. Kinnear And Kebab
A serial loser of his mobile phone, often found with a heavy backlog of missed calls, Kinnears credentials, or lack thereof, for the role of director of football were conspicuous to everyone but Ashley. As divisive a figure that weve ever encountered, Kinnears entire eight-month tenancy as the Magpies recruitment mover and shaker was a controversy in itself. Naturally, his appointment aroused our suspicion that Ashley was again doing his dear out-of-work chum a kindness and deliberately out to antagonise supporters. Who can forget JFKs calamitous address on talkSPORT when he rang in to confirm his return to St James Park before the club had made an official announcement last June? What followed precipitated a collective grimace across Tyneside as we listened to Kinnear fabricating his own personal history and achievements (he didn't win manager of the year three times) before the 66-year-old really began to press the buttons of the already enraged Toon fans by obnoxiously asserting to have "more intelligence than them". Then there was "Shola Amamobi","Ben Afri", "Goalterez", "Sissy" and, best of the lot, "Yohan Kebab". We'll leave it there.