Scott Wilson

Not actually called Ronnie. But frown a lot. Metallica. Newcastle United. Mon The Fife.

[Scott Wilson @RonnieFrown19]

😂😂

[BBC 5 Live Sport @5liveSport]

'This is a church to Kevin Keegan' 🥹🤍

Moving pre-match scenes at St. James' Park as Newcastle and Liverpool come together to pay tribute to King Kev.

📻 @bbcjohnmurray & Pat Nevin

#BBCFootball #NEWLIV #NUFC #LFC

[Scott Wilson @RonnieFrown19]

@GoFootballShow Boy needed a script to make an arse of that question!?😂

[Lone Magpie @Lone__Magpie]

Bring on the backlash

"He just gets it ya knaa!"

And he did. Some of them go through the motions, mention the city, mention the region, mention the fans and the stadium.

Heard it all before mate, just perform on the weekend and then we'll see.

He did that as well.

Arrived in the relegation zone, hardly a word of the language, no exit clause if the worst happened. Left with a trophy tattooed on his leg. And his gleaming, emotional face tattooed on plenty of others.

Happy to fight, happy to play, happy to shed a tear, but most of all, happy. Happy to represent the club that took him to their heart. Happy to leave? Yeah, probably. But that's football.

Players come and players go. When we bring a replacement in we won't give two shites about the club and the fans he leaves behind. That's football. That's the game. Players with a price on their heads.

They have a price. Everything has a price. But what about the value?

It's singing the songs they really asked you not to sing on the stage on the Town Moor, either drunk on something consumed or just the sheer energy of that day and what it meant to all of us, or possibly both.

It's putting others ahead of you at the moment the trophy was there to be lifted, and then pushing the manager towards the crowd for his moment too.

Football fans aren't daft. They can see through people when there's no substance, or simply just empty words or gestures. Fuck knows we've seen it plenty of times before and no doubt will again.

But he did get it, ya knaa. And maybe that's why it hurts.

And so the backlash. The scar tissue of Gascoigne, Beardsley, Waddle, Cole and all the others who wanted to leave for more money or trophies or the lifestyle or whatever the fuck they or anyone else could think to say to make it not hurt.

More recently it's been Carroll, Cabaye, Gordon, Tonali and of course Isak. Seeing the greener grass of pastures new. Or of currency. All leaving in their own way. Playing when it suited them, when the stage was right. Or for some, not playing at all.

Does it make it easier to see him in the colour of another club? Fighting against us? Of course not. Perspective and philosophical thinking has never been, and hopefully never will be, at the forefront of a football fan's thinking. It's tribalism. It's kill or be killed. It's with us or against us.

It's like the last song at the school disco and that lass who said all the right things and laughed at all the daft jokes is off with that smooth-talking posh cunt.

So then. The name calling. The retrospective "glad he's gone actually". And no doubt the ever so popular booing.

But nothing is owed here. No debt to pay back. It's all been left out there on the grass.

So go on bonny lad, go make your move for whatever fucking reason you want to do it for.

There'll always be those memories. Those goals, those chases back, those fouls and those screams to the crowd. There'll always be the 16th March 2025, and that shiny cup with the black and white ribbons on it. He got that. And so did we.

And the backlash? Aye, it'll come. If that helps ease the pain then fine. But I know, and you know, it's not real.

It's just a smokescreen for the sadness of knowing something was amazing and the realisation that it's now gone.

#nufc

[Scott Wilson @RonnieFrown19]

@UnitedRo4d @talkSPORT You can't reason with thick as fuck

[Scott Wilson @RonnieFrown19]

@LisaBritton Looks familiar

[Scott Wilson @RonnieFrown19]

@BryanWaveC @NuFcPRO @donhutch4 Or delete!

[Neil Farrington @Neilfarrington]

A very sad day. Echoes of KK’s first departure as manager in Howe’s eyes in recent weeks & months, at the end of a road which began with the owners’ failure to mind the shop (with either a CEO or sporting director) early last summer. But what times Howe gave us. A fine man. #NUFC

[🫶🏼💖 @SunshinesDeluxe]

Seeing one of gods most majestic and divine creatures, fight so valiantly against the destruction and rampaging of his home should do untold psychic damage to your psyche. We should be radicalized by this.

[Scott Wilson @RonnieFrown19]

@MillersTomO @GoalsMcGhie Looks great on a mantelpiece

[Scott Wilson @RonnieFrown19]

@euanmccolm

[Nicky Campbell @NickyAACampbell]

@Saganismm The Celtic penalty v Motherwell VAR decision.

[Scott Wilson @RonnieFrown19]

@Nick___Collins 60 different nationalities fought in the RAF too

[Scott Wilson @RonnieFrown19]

@HLTCO Not a fan of the thinner stripes. Or the blue shoulders. And collar. Other than that I hate it.

[Black & White Army @bawarmy]

No skin in the game, but that is corrupt as fuck from our officials tonight.

Never in your fucking life is that a penalty.

[Scott Wilson @RonnieFrown19]

@LiamJKennedy23

[Scott Wilson @RonnieFrown19]

@SavMondo @LiamJKennedy23 @Regista10_ 100%

[Scott Wilson @RonnieFrown19]

@floboflo @trussliz Is it just me, or is her head slowly morphing into ET's?

[Scott Wilson @RonnieFrown19]

@amader900 @Jason_R_Burt reading that book right now!