Football: Who should Newcastle United Sign?
The answer to this question is best answered by answering another question: who should sign for Newcastle United? The moral, ethical, and humane answer should be no one. The reality, as we all know, will be rather different.
We have entered the month of June 2022, which marks almost four years since the last men’s football World Cup in Russia. In normal times — which may never come back or may never have existed— we would be getting ready for the ceremonial and commercial upheaval of WC fever. However, because we have succumbed to a reality that seems more akin to a parallel universe of cynical proportion, we will be the first generation of fans to witness a major football tournament in the Northern Hemisphere’s winter.
Therefore, all we have to aliment our insatiable appetite for all things round kicked about on a green pitch by pretentious and overrated boys and men is the summer transfer window. The ultimate ifs and maybes embedded within gargantuan sums of money, whose narrative and exciting unfolding is the only thing keeping most football journalists on the pay-roll.
The world of football has always been keen to insulate itself from any of life’s ills and sins — there is no corruption, no teams or players have ever used Performance Enhancing Drugs, and there has certainly never has been any institutional evidence…