It get's funnier the further down you get, one of the Newcastle fans "One Eyed Burglar, just appears to get worse and worse. Yes we have underacheived and every year say "we were heading in the right direction" but to try and outargue a side with one of the top 3 non-English fan bases in the country as not being a big club is a farce.
Yes we haven't had a lot of Euro sucess and that is the reason the big name signings (like the Parker one he keeps citing, although we were never in talks with him) have fallen down because we refused to pay stupid wages, Kluivert and (stupidly in afterthough IMHO) Bergkamp are great examples of the money scenario.