Newcastle fan upset about promotion after “amazing” Championship holiday

DIE-HARD Newcastle United fan Eric Hadley has admitted he cried when he realised it was time for his club to return to the Premier League after a wonderful 12 month break in the sunny Championship.

Speaking to a fan of top-flight Manchester City on the eve of his return, Hadley said he was already missing Championship life: “Oh my god, it was AMAZING.

“I went to all these well-wicked places like Blackpool and Scunthorpe, Mike Ashley bought us loads of amazing players like Fitz Hall, and there was no pressure to do your homework on the opposition, because they were all shit.”

In the midst of this season’s joy Hadley had barely thought about returning to his normal life supporting a medium-to-large club with Europa League ambitions. It was only after Sunday’s final game of the season that his parents gently broke the news to him that he would have to return to “big boy’s league” in August.

“I don’t ever want to go back there,” said Hadley through tears as the Championship emblem was ceremonially removed from the arm of his replica shirt on Sunday evening.

“All those bigger teams are horrible to us, their fans all pick on me for saying we’re brilliant even after we lose all the time and they won’t let me in their G14 gang because they say I’m too poor.”

Hadley was comforted by relatives who suggested he look for the positives, insisting that Newcastle would never learn anything if they only played teams they could beat.

But there is may be better news for Hadley after it was suggested that a nostalgic Newcastle may skive off the first day of the Premier League and run away with their new friends QPR and Nottingham to form a breakaway league, where they can hang out and not worry about getting beaten by the big boys.

Published May 4, 2010

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