Source: Daily_Mail
First Keegan, then Sir Bobby - now the last of the Three Kings has arrived at Newcastle and suddenl
Northern Football Correspondent IAN LADYMAN joins the faithful on Tyneside as news spreads of a hero's return to St James's Park and suddenly the good times are back - even before new manager Alan Shearer has had a chance to see his beloved Newcastle United kick a ball
They were serving free glasses of iced coffee to the workers and shoppers idling on the grass by the war memorial at Newcastle's rather cosmopolitan Eldon Square yesterday lunchtime.
Less than half a mile away outside St James' Park, however, the locals were drinking lager, smoking cigarettes and singing songs about Alan Shearer.
This great city may be under reconstruction both culturally and physically but some things just will never change.
Obsession. Devotion. Delusion. Call it what you wish.
I'll drink to that: A Magpies fan even salutes the bar named after Alan Shearer
But what is increasingly apparent is that football in Newcastle is driven not by logic or reason. It exists on adrenaline, fantasy and good old-fashioned hope.
