Get off Joe Kinnear's back! He's done nothing wrong and I guess a lot of the flak aimed at him is because he tells it like it is and made his name as a manager with an unfashionable club like Wimbledon.

The Crazy Gang have nothing on the Toon Army and there are a lot worse folk smarming around in nice suits and ties and talking the talk and walking the walk in a bid to stay at the top in luxury in all walks of life.

Joe probably won't be at Newcastle for too much longer. Will anybody? It's a shame because it ain't a bad little town and the surrounding Northumberland countryside and coastline is beautiful – just like the north-east women!

But Joe seems to have been targeted for all the flak going right now. The media are picking up on anything and everything he does – right or wrong. Like some have said about those journos – if you can't take it, don't dish it out.

I do not fall into that category. For more than 36 years in the job I have said what I think and taken other people's views and comments right back in my face with a smile. I will continue to do so and that's why I am defending Joe.

So who is going to get the manager's job at St James' Park when and if the current nonsense ends and new, honest and reliable owners takeover?