How Roeder's Sacking Came About

The 51-year-old parted company with the club on Sunday after 15 months in charge at St James' Park including his spell as caretaker.

Rumours that he had been summoned to an emergency board meeting had been circulating throughout Sunday, with some suggesting he had been sacked.

Roeder was in defiant mood after Saturday's game, saying: "I understand, 100% understand where the fans are coming from. They want a winning Newcastle team and I also want a winning Newcastle team.

"At the moment, we have not been winning and I understand their frustration.

To win matches, you need to score goals and we have not done that for four, five, six weeks now, and that has cost us greatly.

"I do understand their feelings."

No Newcastle manager has tasted glory since Joe Harvey lifted the Fairs Cup in 1969, with the last domestic success coming in the FA Cup in 1955 under Chalie Mitten (but even then, the board of directors picked the cup final team).

Roeder's departure comes at the end of a week which has seen frenzied speculation about his position and the availability of Sam Allardyce.

However, chairman Freddy Shepherd had earlier insisted he had never spoken to Allardyce, who turned the job down before Graeme Souness was appointed in 2004, about the matter.

Shepherd, who has also dismissed suggestions that former England boss Sven-Goran Eriksson could be heading for Tyneside, will now start the process of looking for the sixth manager of his reign and the fifth he will have appointed.

Despite being linked with the Bolton boss, he insisted he would not consider Allardyce again after his earlier refusal.

Roeder was told by Shepherd there was a relative shortage of cash following Souness' £50million spending spree. That limited the club's recruitment plans both during the summer and in January with Obafemi Martins and Damien Duff accounting for the manager's entire £15million kitty.