Source: Daily_Mail
Now Newcastle fans revolt! Season tickets sales at 20-year low
Any players left at Newcastle when the season gets underway could be turning out in front of a half-empty stadium as the Toon Army stage a mutiny.
Sportsmail revealed earlier this week that senior players, including Steven Taylor, Nicky Butt, Alan Smith and Habib Beye, will put in transfer requests if Alan Shearer is not named manager in the next fortnight.
And now season ticket sales are threatening to hit a 20-year low as fans refuse to renew their seats in protest at the lack of movement on the managerial front and the time it is taking for owner Mike Ashley to find a buyer.
Just six years ago thousands were on a waiting list for a seat at St James' Park but, three months into Ashley's latest attempt to get out, supporters are unwilling to spend up to £600 for a Championship campaign.
Fears are growing sales could dip to the levels of 1991, when an average crowd of 21,000 saw Kevin Keegan keep them out of the old Third Division.
Mark Jensen, editor of The Mag fanzine told The Sun: 'I don't blame people for taking a reality check and thinking "Where's my money going? Where is this club going?"
'Those renewing are doing so through blind loyalty.'
