Newcastle United’s injury list is now at the level of being catastrophically silly. To be fair, Glenn Roeder new at the end of last season that he needed more bodies to arrive in the squad, he said he wanted six new players because the squad simply wasn’t big enough, and our chairman backed him to the hilt.

Well, I say backed him, but there was certainly something buried up to the hilt when four players left over the summer (Shearer, Boumsong, Bowyer, Chopra), another picked up a season-long injury and we managed to bring in three players — and Bernard who as he’s not ever been fit enough to play, doesn’t really count — we had a squad that the manager thought needed six more players, and by the time the transfer window closed, we actually had two less.

That’s just frigging great, that is. Still, Glenn Roeder has worked miracles with what little he’s had available to him and hasn’t complained about the injury list.

But it’s just bloody ridiculous when we’ve now got more injured players than fit players. Just look at this list of injured players (and that’s not counting players who suffered an injury they have now recovered from):

Goalkeepers

Steve Harper

Tim Krul

Defenders

Titus Bramble

Craig Moore

Olivier Bernard

Stephen Carr

Midfielders

Nolberto Solano

Kieron Dyer (now onto his third injury of the season)

Damien Duff

Charles N’Zogbia

Emre

Scott Parker

Forwards

Michael Owen

Shola Ameobi

In addition to this, James Milner, Obafemi Martins, Shay Given, Antoine Sibierski and Albert Luque have all missed games through injury at some point this season.

I don’t know what Newcastle United have done to upset God, but whatever it is, I’d like on behalf of the club very much to apologise and ask if we could have some of our injured players back now please. If it’s not too much to ask, a trophy would be very nice too…