Reading these comments you would think Eddie Howe was the Sunderland manager | OneFootball

Eddie Howe recently moved into his fifth year in charge of Newcastle United.

Saturday 8 November 2025 was the fourth anniversary of him taking the job.

Newcastle United looking relegation certainties thanks to Steve Bruce and Mike Ashley, Eddie Howe brought in by the new owners who had only taken over the club 32 days earlier.

This is now a club totally transformed.

Yet when I hear and read some Newcastle United fans with their comments, you would think Eddie Howe was the Sunderland manager, the way they go on.

Anybody who didn’t know anything about the history of what has gone on, would think Eddie Howe was Newcastle United’s biggest problem, rather than the club’s greatest asset.

All managers are fair game for fair criticism but some of these Newcastle United fans, I simply can’t believe the vitriol and lack of respect they have for Eddie Howe.

For me personally, this equals a total lack of respect for our great football club and indeed, all of their fellow fans.

Even if in the Sunderland match next month, Eddie Howe decided to run on the pitch in the final seconds and boot the ball in our net, winning the game for the Mackems, I would still think he was the best manager Newcastle United have ever had, in my lifetime anyway.

Yes, Eddie Howe has now finally edged out Kevin Keegan in my affections and respect, never thought I would see the day that KK was second best for me!

Put it this way, if you had fallen into a coma on 7 November 2021 and were waking up this morning, then getting told what had happened with Newcastle United in the past four years, you would think you were still dreaming all of this.

Comments I read from this minority of Newcastle United fans, go on like Eddie Howe is a total idiot. That if only he had picked this team, this formation, made this substitution, then zero doubt Newcastle would have won rather than lost and drawn numerous matches.

None of us know all the ins and outs of the physical condition of players at any specific time, the expert medical opinion he is given, the plan he has in his head of how to balance all of these matches Newcastle United have on four fronts this season. All of this whilst having to cope with injuries to key players, plus the fact that of the six summer signings, only one of them had a pre-season with their new teammates, as Eddie Howe’s pleas for signings to be made ASAP this summer with the transfer window opening on 1 June went unheeded.

Time and time again, when Newcastle’s form has dipped these past four years, Eddie Howe has had the answers. A bit like a misfiring car, once all the parts are properly working together as one well-oiled unit, then the team so often have ran up impressive sequences of results. Even this season so far is hardly the disaster some are wanting to make it out to be, reflected in the fact that Newcastle United have won six of their last nine games in all competitions.

Of course we all know, Eddie Howe more than anybody, that Premier League results need to improve.

However, there is one man I would trust above all others to make that happen and thankfully, he is the one that we have in the job already.

I stand with Eddie Howe, the greatest living Newcastle United manager of all time.

Eddie needs our backing and full support, a time to show we are all United in turning this league season around, not childish insults and football experts in their bedrooms playing computer games and believing they could do a better job.