'Fan Power' - Is It Damaging To Newcastle?
By Nu Mad
Updated Friday, 31st October 2008
Members a of a new Newcastle United supporters' club have warned the future buyer of the club " we can either be his best friend or his worst enemy."
Is that REALLY the message we want to give?
The leaders of this new "supporters club" have also vowed to keep up a boycott to force chairman Mike Ashley out.
The Chronicle reports: Around 50 of the Newcastle United Supporters Club (NUSC) who turned out at its first public meeting agreed to continue the action launched after Kevin Keegan's departure.
They hope refusing to spend their cash in St James's Park and at Ashley's Sports Direct shops will show they mean business and also send a message to future owners. NUSC spokesman Michael Teasdale said: "We need to show any future owner that we can either be his best friend or his worst enemy.
"We need to show we're here to work with them, but also to show what kind of damage we can do if they treat us badly."
Michael Martin (editor of an NU fanzine): "It's the whole point of this club to pressure Ashley to sell.
"We have got to make a stand. If we don't have the boycott then we haven't got a campaign."
