The path to victory is clear because it relies on the calmness on the banks of the Wear, and the anxiety haemorrhaging all over Tyneside, as it has done for well over a decade now; though there should be no complacency, as we must shut the door to defeat. To put it another way, the reality is by countless metrics this club has the upper hand against a stagnating, tired, stale and restless club shorn of the pipe dream of success to be replaced with the reality which bites hard: your club hasn’t and probably never will break the elite. We’ve battled so hard to have days like today, back when we were caught up in the fog of war in the third tier, and we believed the viewpoint that this club was on a life-support machine, that we had to get down on bended knee for the likes of Charlie Methven; when actually it was simply dormant.
Author: Ian Bendelow
Published at: 2026-03-21 22:34:19
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