A Newcastle United supporters’ group urged club sponsors and advertisers to cut their ties with Mike Ashley in a bid to pile pressure on the under-fire owner to sell up.
The newly-formed Newcastle United Supporters Club (NUSC) issued an ultimatum to the club’s main backers Northern Rock and kit supplier Adidas to sever their business relationship with Ashley.
The organisation claims a financial attack on the billionaire sports tycoon is the best way for fans to end his time at St James’s Park.
And they say if the club sponsors and advertisers fail to respond they will boycott buying their merchandise and using their services.
A statement released by the NUSC organisation said: “What is clear is that Mike Ashley is not acting quickly enough to end his disastrous relationship with our club.
“The NUSC, with a fast growing membership, will soon be writing to the club’s main sponsors and advertisers to request that they end their business relationship with a Mike Ashley-owned Newcastle United.
“If the nightmare scenario of an Ashley-owned Newcastle United continues to next summer, then we will organise a highly visible and energetic campaign amongst supporters to boycott any new kit and merchandise being sold by Adidas.”
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Thing is yes there will be people who boycott shirts, but really will it make a huge difference?
It is inlikely because kids will want the new shirt, kids do not really care about politics and their parents will buy them the new shirt, this means that adidas will still sell lots and lots of shirts regardless of who is in charge.
Another thing of course is that if they do not sell enough shirts then they will just change all three every season.
It is an interesting stance but not too sure if it will work.
Still best of luck .
In fact they have rightly come in for a lot of flak over recent statements, including the one this article refers to.
Mike Ashley did contribute to his own downfall by bringing in the likes of dennis wise ( who i think will be a top manager one day, he took millwall to an F.A cup final and finished in a healthy place in the championship) but the sole purpose of this was to scout the world for cheap young talent like Arsenal FC do and either sell them on to make profit or find another alan shearer, but however the set up felt like Kevin Keegan was being constantly undermined and keegan is used to the old school method of managing a club like Harry Redknapp does where he the manager is in charge takes charge and then the job then rests on \"do or die\" in the managerial world.
Mike Ashley could be blamed for inexperience and lack of understanding of football and how football works in terms of culture and set up however he did try to make Newcastle a great club and did wipe the clubs debts, on the other side of the coin selling players which Kevin did not want selling goes against the point of having a manager altogether and then the players loose respect as they know that the manager is not solely in charge.
Newcastle united is a passionent club with brilliant fans but these fans expect too much but they need to understand that the players they have arent going to get them a better than 7th or 8th place finish and they would have to work hard for that as well.
Protests and boycotts futher the view of how newcastle united is in turmoil and and futhers the fact that Mike Ashley is being used as a scape goat when in fact every thing comes down to a result on a football field and the players themselves are underperfoming on wages of excess of £60,000 a WEEK.
In conclusion Mike Ashley tried to hard and too soon with no experience and at times tried to hard to impress fans such as drinking non alocoholic beverages and having \"king kev\" on the back of his top at the emirates but he himself is not entirely to blame and boycotts like this are a drop in the ocean in terms of a fans revolt as adidas will always make profits elsewhere and adidas give newcastle united money to be their sponsor.
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By Greg Harrison
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I mean its already good they still have a company to make kits for them. Northern Rock and Adidas are one of the main companies that Gives newcastle money.
I don\'t think Newcastle can\'t get a Sponsor more better than what they have now.
I mean, Newcastle are one of the less clubs that are going down but they still don\'t use a Standard adidas template in at least 2 of their kits.
The owners are trying everything to put Newcastle back on top.
The only problem besides the players are the supporters who are against them. And they call Themselves SUPPORTers, so stupid.
Ashley has said that he