Newcastle United fan frustrated by expensive Murrayfield friendly after disappointing season
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Summary
A Newcastle United fan expresses relief at the end of a disappointing 2025/26 season, only to be frustrated by an email offering expensive tickets to a pointless friendly match at Murrayfield (Everton). The article discusses the friendly as a potential dry run for using Murrayfield during a St James' Park rebuild by Newcastle United's owners, and reflects on fan fatigue and the commercialization of football.
Key quotes
· 3 pulledI was thoroughly finished with the 2025/26 Newcastle United season weeks, or even months, before it finally came to a relatively disastrous end.
My main positive was that now several weeks lay ahead where Newcastle United's ability to ruin my day/weekend/life was at least greatly diminished, if not removed entirely.
Not thinking about it was a blessed relief, so it came as an unwelcome shock to the system when an email dropped in only days after the final match, offering me the chance to buy expensive tickets to a pointless friendly at a
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