Alan Shearer is being backed to save Newcastle United from the drop - by the club's tea lady.
A fiercely-proud Geordie, 82-year-old Kath Cassidy is distraught at the club’s current plight but hopes Shearer will remain at the club next season — even if Newcastle are relegated.
Kath told The Sun: “If anyone can save us, it’s Alan, but he’s not got much time left. I don’t know if he is staying on but if he does, we are sure to go back up. His heart is in Newcastle and I wish all the players were the same as him.
“I’ve got lots of pictures at home of all my favourite players from down the years. So many, that I’ll soon have to start putting them on the ceiling.
“I know I’d get into trouble, but I might go into the dressing room before a game with my picture of Jackie Milburn holding his medals.
“I’d say to the players ‘Get your fingers out, look what he won for £20 a week.’
“Men like Jackie, God bless his soul, put their whole heart in. Jackie would turn in his grave if he saw the state of things here now.
“We last won a trophy in 1969 and that’s shocking. We shouldn’t be down there.
“I wish Kevin Keegan had stayed. When he returned here, I thought I’d died and gone to heaven. A great man. If he had still been here, I’m not sure we would be in this mess.
“It was not his fault and I can’t understand why Dennis Wise was brought in. You don’t have a boss and then bring in someone over him. Another terrible thing is seeing us below Sunderland in the table."