Newcastle United - No Press, Is Good Press

Come the 2nd of October Newcastle United have started the season in great form. Unbeaten in the league, lying 4th in the League behind both Manchester clubs and Chelsea and to add to the equation they are still in the  league cup!...what and how is this happening to Newcastle United! 

Well I believe the start is down to the signing of good players  throughout the summer to improve an already good squad. A good man manager in Alan Pardew, a team spirit that is second to none in the Premiership and a kind early set of fixtures cannot be looked over as well. However one of the most important parts, especially after the transfer window and departure of Joey Barton is the lack of press focusing on Newcastle, let that be good press or bad.

The quote of "there is no such form of bad publicity" is often stated in the world of business and showbiz, but in football and most sports I really do not think the same can be said. As a Newcastle fan myself I have had to sit through a lot of bad publicity and not much good press over recent years. We have had everything Joey Barton has said or done, Mike Ashley's shenanigans from selling the club, to drinking beer in the stands... the list could go on and on!  Even the start of this season began in a traditional manner of Joey Barton Twitter-gate, the sale of key players and what looks to be not much of the 35million pounds spent  of the Andy Carroll sale.

Since the close of the transfer window Newcastle have gone about their business on and off the field quietly not shouting how we are doing in the league or getting in any controversy off the field. This could be down to a team with no big egos anymore and the fact that other clubs such as Manchester City, Arsenal and Blackburn have taken the media limelight away because of  the individual problems they are facing.

Newcastle fans are expecting stories on Newcastle in the papers,  but these are usually  for negative reasons, and because of this we expect stories on how well we are doing especially as Manchester clubs are getting such plaudits for how they play and go about their business. Newcastle fans need there fix of stories in the daily papers!

However  for the next couple of years silence would be the perfect tonic for Newcastle. In  Mike Ashley they have an owner who does not speak publicly. Newcastle as a club only communicate with a few rare press releases on the official website. The only mouth piece for Newcastle United is  Alan Pardew through the press conferences.  Pardew is not a manager from the same mold as Jose Mourinho, Sam Allardyce and Harry Redknapp...ect who blew their own trumpet of what they do, or have done in the past. Nor is he a manager like Steve Kean who makes outrageous and bold predictions about the club's future.

Without a headline grabbing manager, a club owner who does not seek publicity in his life or plans for the club, players  who you would say are attention grabbers on or off the field. All this makes boring news for newspapers and is not good USP/Exclusives for their papers. So Newcastle United fans will have to accept if the clubs is to do well or is doing well the club is not going to get the mention it deserves or fans desire, and when the press is discussing Newcastle then we just have to hope it is for less high profile bad press than for what Newcastle have received in recent years.