http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/sport/football/article1736458.ece Venables的大肠报专栏，提到他拒绝这份职位的原因是时间过短。 基本上就跟昨天BBC报导的一样，他想要长期合约，但高层找的是短期救火人。 我大概讲一下重点，Venables提到说是我们的几位球员向高层要求尽快结束这一切 的不确定状况，因此高层与他连络希望他来救火。 (大概可看出，他们本来大概是打算在脱手前都继续用休顿挡的 -.- 我猜应该是Given跟Owen等人不爽去反应的。) Venables说高层只跟他保证当胖子还是老板的时候，他会是主帅。 但昨天的会谈胖子并没有参予，而这也让他感觉到胖子想尽速的将球队脱手。 他认为执教纽卡需要时间，他想来执教，但他认为这份工作不确定性太高。 总之意思就是很明显，他想要长期执教，但高层没办法给他这个保证。 唔，这年头到哪再去找一个炮德来当看守主帅啊？ THERE is one reason and one reason alone why I’ve turned down the chance to take temporary charge at Newcastle — time. Newcastle United means too much to too many people to take the job on a short-term basis. It demands total commitment and dedication from a manager who is prepared to throw himself heart and soul into the club. I didn’t want to move up to Tyneside and find myself surplus to requirements before I’d even had the chance to get my teeth into the challenge. The way the job was offered to me meant that I might be working at St James’ Park for two months, two years . . . or two weeks. There was far too much uncertainty involved. When I take on a job I need to know exactly what my goals and targets are. It would have been impossible to achieve any aims in the conditions they wanted me to work under. I was ready and willing to give it a real go but I was never offered the chance to do that. All they could guarantee was that I’d be in a job until Mike Ashley sells the club . . . whenever that might be. So as flattered and honoured as I was to be approached by Newcastle, in the end it wasn’t that difficult a decision for me to decline their offer. The Newcastle supporters have suffered more than enough in recent years. I didn’t want them to think I’d gone up there just to pocket a few quid from Mike Ashley and then wave ‘cheerio’ a couple of weeks later. But I want to make it absolutely clear that my decision had nothing to do with a fear of a fans’ backlash. I know only too well that many of the Newcastle supporters have been protesting about the so-called ‘Cockney Mafia’ running their club. But I honestly don’t believe it would have been an issue for me. All my work would have been done in the dressing room, not the boardroom. I understand the Geordies are proud of their city and their club — and rightly so. But I’m sure they will warm to any manager who gives his total commitment to their team and starts winning games. I could have handled one or two fans calling me a Cockney this or that. I’ve had to deal with a lot worse than that in my time, believe me. But if you are going to do that job seriously, the new man will need time to understand the club, time to get to know the players and time to work out all their strengths and weaknesses. No one is going to walk into St James’ Park and turn things around overnight. People might claim that was what I did when I accepted a similar fire-fighting role at Middlesbrough eight years ago. But let me assure you it was a totally different set-up. I went into that job at the beginning of December with the knowledge that I would be working alongside Bryan Robson for the rest of the season. We were nine points adrift of safety at the time but I knew I was going to get the time I needed to have an effect and make an impact. As it happened, we avoided relegation fairly comfortably in the end. During those seven months on Teesside I moved into the area with my wife, worked every day on the training ground and put all my other commitments to one side. I would have done the same for Newcastle. But that wasn’t what they wanted. Let me make it clear it was Newcastle who approached me about the job rather than the other way around. It was a complete shock when I received the telephone call this week asking me to meet them. I met Dennis Wise, Tony Jiminez and Derek Llambias on Wednesday and we had a long chat about what the job entailed and what they expected from me. A number of senior players had told them that they needed to end the uncertainty as quickly as possible and they immediately moved into action to do that. But Mike Ashley wasn’t there and it was made very clear to me that it is the owner’s intention to sell control of the club sooner rather than later. And we all know that whenever a new owner takes control of a club, the first thing he does is appoint his own directors and his own manager. Ashley has been hurt and upset by recent events and feels that family issues mean he has no option but to let someone else take charge of Newcastle. We never discussed money, contracts or any sort of payment. I told them that I first needed to decide if I wanted the job. We could settle the financial side of things at a later date. I promised I’d give them my decision within 24 hours and thought about it long and hard over Wednesday night. But deep down inside I always knew it wasn’t the right job at the right time for me. And I don’t think the Newcastle guys were that surprised when I gave them my answer yesterday. But just because the conditions weren’t right for me doesn’t mean they won’t be right for someone else. I’m sure Newcastle will be inundated with applications from loads of top- quality coaches who are willing to take the job on a temporary basis. And I have absolutely no doubts that it is only a matter of time before the team starts winning games and moving back up the Premier League table. They have plenty of good players on board and as long as they can keep them all fit and available they won’t have any problems. We’re only five games into the new season, for God’s sake. A win tomorrow at home to Blackburn and they could go up as many as 10 places. When I was a young manager, I always regarded Newcastle and Liverpool as the two top jobs to aim for. I see no reason to change that opinion. If the circumstances had been different I would have been delighted to become the manager at St James’ Park. It’s been 10 months since I left my job with England and I haven’t been actively looking to get back into the game since then. But this week’s developments have made me think hard and if the right opportunity and the right conditions come along, I would certainly give it serious consideration. Who knows, maybe the new owners of Newcastle will want me. Somehow, though, I don’t think that is going to happen. TERRY VENABLES was talking to MARK IRWIN --

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