Roeder stays calm despite protest
Newcastle boss Glenn Roeder insists he is not feeling under pressure, despite a protest by thousands of fans after the home defeat by Sheffield United.
Fans booed the team from the pitch and chanted "sack the board" outside the ground after the Magpies' poor display.
"I don't feel under pressure. I've been around too long. I don't feel under pressure whatsoever," said Roeder.
"Glenn Roeder has stood up all his life and he will always stay standing up whatever happens to him."
Newcastle are only above bottom club Charlton on goal difference and have endured a miserable time in the Premiership, having taken only two points from their last seven matches.
They have not won a league match since the 2-0 triumph over Roeder's former club West Ham on 17 September.
Roeder labelled the performance against Sheffield United as the poorest since he took charge of the team in February and said he understood why the fans were disappointed following the 1-0 defeat.
And he confirmed that he heard Saturday's protests.
"I would be a liar if I said I did not hear them. Of course I heard them - and the players heard them as well," he added.
"But, in capital letters, the responsibility for results is mine and nobody else's - and that is how it should always be with a manager."
Newcastle chairman Freddy Shepherd is currently out of the country with his wife Lorelle, who was recently taken ill.
But Roeder, who has fought his way back to health after a brain tumour, said he would battle to improve the situation at St James Park.
"Three-and-a-half years ago, I was flat on my back. I am standing up now and it is great to get out of bed every day," he said.
"I am not happy - really unhappy - with this situation. It is not nice but it needs someone with broad shoulders; it needs players with broad shoulders.
"They must not stand behind me, I will not let them stand behind me, they have to stand alongside me and come out fighting."
