Alan Shearer divides opinion across the country and, more obviously, across the North-east.
Some uncharitable folk will no doubt be enjoying what looks like a premature end to his final season.
But the people of Newcastle will be doing some serious praying, hoping their saviour can be put back together for his scheduled swansong against Chelsea at St James Park on 7 May.
I strongly suspect he might totter on with two minutes to go using a pair of crutches - and win a couple of free-kicks in the process.
So what has big Al achieved in his time there?
He almost got his hands on a Premiership medal with the Geordie bottlers and was within touch of an FA Cup winner's medal (twice), but aside from that, he's been the only regular during an incredibly large number of comings and goings at the club.
There's been so many of these arrivals and departures that Freddie Shepherd is apparently thinking of building an extra terminal at the Gallowgate end.
It seems to me that Newcastle United are Alan Shearer. Shepherd virtually admitted whatever job Alan fancied was his and while I can understand the old fella wanting a couple of years off to rest his aching bones, I personally think he should get into the manager's seat now.
If he could continue the annoyingly good work that's been done (accidentally) by Roeder, there might still be a chance Newcastle will actuallly win summat - rather than acting as if they have.
The Bridge of heavy sighs
Chelsea have officially become Britain's Least Liked Club.
Blues fans will tell you it's down to jealousy and, yes, we'd all like to be feeling around for a bit of loose change so we can sign the best German player of the last 10 years.
But if they think that's all it is, they're talking Ballacks.
Mourinho has put together a team of such relentless efficiency it makes Tesco's look like a ****-up in a brewery. They're a blinking machine.
It's very impressive, of course, but then so is a Dyson vacuum cleaner and I don't want to look at that for 90 minutes every Saturday.
Mourinho'll tell you it's results that count. And he'd be right. But George Graham had a similarly miserable bunch of workaholics at Arsenal and we never liked them either.
The only time I've warmed to them this season was when Gallas started behaving like a temperamental schoolboy at Fulham. At least he looked human.
We've got at least three more seasons of this one-club state to put up with, boys and girls, so we'd better get used to it. And Chelsea better get used to the loathing, indifference and downright hacked-offness of the rest of us.
Callous Kallis
Within days of Freddie Flintoff becoming cricketer of the year for 2005, Jacques Kallis got down to playing in his 100th Test.
According to the official rankings, Kallis is the world's number one all-rounder. It just goes to show how statistics can lie.
Kallis is a brilliant cricketer, no doubt, but you know who Flintoff's doing it for. Of course you want a batsman to be single-minded but somehow Kallis manages to be one-eyed at the same time.
I've never known him sacrifice an average for the team - in fact, you can imagine team-mates sitting in the hutch just itching to get out there and run the selfish so-and-so out, as Botham did with Boycott all them years ago.
Cricket is a team game, after all, and Kallis will look better than Flintoff when the cricket spods rifle through the pages of Wisden in 50 years' time. But them that were there will know different, won't we?
On-screen Interference
Can we just sort out this nonsense offside law once and for all?
The idea that a man who chooses not to kick a ball while in an offside position can be deemed 'not interfering with play' is a total joke.
Apparently it's now OK to do a classy step-over when you're beyond the last defender and the officials will be more than happy to pat you on the back.
There's every chance Emile Heskey will not be found off-side again as he has never been able to put his foot on the ball.
It's a licence for goal-hangers to just make a nuisance of themselves.
Either we go back to the old rule or we just do what Graham Poll was suggesting recently and get rid of the whole offside thing for good.
At the moment defenders don't know what to do, which fans are used to seeing at Sunderland, Birmingham and Portsmouth, but the rest of us could do with a bit of clarity!
The BBC may edit your comments and not all emails will be published. Your comments may be published on any BBC media worldwide.