Newcastle Fans’ 11 Most Hated Players Of The Modern Era

5. Titus Bramble

Was Titus Bramble really as hated at Newcastle as his later move to Sunderland makes us all seem to remember? Well, yes, frankly. Bramble was signed from Ipswich with a massive potential tag on him - not least thanks to Sir Bobby Robson's enduring faith in him as a future England international - and he did have spells of brilliance in the first team. Scoring an acrobatic scissor-kick against Chelsea should rank high for all fans in the positives column. The problem was that Bramble was a schizophrenic player: for every well-timed tackle and solid 89 minutes, he would have disastrous 1 minute periods that would usually cost the club dearly. It wasn't just that he was accident prone, it was that he was calamitous in such a fatal way that every mistake looked explosive and ended up being over-blown by fans and media until he was a clownish figure.