There seems to be a lot of anti-Newcastle sentiment on here today. Understandable. But this notion that
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are some kind of yo-yo team with no history?
Worth a reminder that before Mike Ashley, Newcastle had been relegated fewer times than Manchester United
A lot has been said about Newcastle’s spending power, but you can’t buy the level of improvement shown by Almiron in the last year. That’s down to hard work and good coaching
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Wenger on beIN Sports “ I’m not surprised it didn’t last long. I never believed from the start it would happen. It ignored the basic principles of sporting merit. If you ignore that you kill the domestic leagues, so fans would never accept that. Rightly so.”
Newcastle probably deserved more than a point from their 4th game in 2 weeks, against a Manchester United side who’d had more than 2 weeks off. Seems ludicrously unfair that
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are expected to go to Everton in 3 days, who’ve also had a fortnight off
Nigel de Jong on
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. “This team is gone. There is no confidence or chemistry. It’s time move on. You have 9 games left. You only need to win 3 games. Get somebody in right now. Give Steve Bruce his money. Thank you for your job done here but we have a club to save.”
Fascinating stat from last night’s Liverpool v Newcastle game.
Of 49 Premier League games this season. That was the 9th highest ‘ball in play’ time so far.
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Oh Rio 🤦🏼♂️ “
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are a yo yo club. Newcastle fans should thank Mike Ashley”
Between 1993 and 2007 Newcastle finished 2nd x2, 3rd x2, 4th, 5th, 6th and 7th. Plus 2 FA Cup finals, European S/F and NOT relegated once.
Since Ashley bought Newcastle they’ve been relegated twice
"I don't even know him [Mike Ashley] very well!"
"When they went down, he spent £50m of his own money to get them up. Thank you, that should be."
"By the way, please say thank you for getting Rafa Benítez in! They're lucky to have him!"
@rioferdy5
on Newcastle and their owner.
Arsene Wenger on beIN “I must say the biggest paradox in all of this was the English clubs. England voted for Brexit to master their own destiny. England has the strongest league in the world. By signing these documents, they were destroying the Premier League. Unbelievable.”
This whole myth that Newcastle fans expectations are too high. I don’t know a single
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fan who expects to win a trophy or finish in the top 4. Is expecting a club the size of Newcastle not to be battling relegation every season too high?
I do find it ironic that the same pundits who say expectations at Newcastle are unrealistic, are sympathetic to Spurs’ fans current predicament. Tottenham are 5th in the Premier League and playing in a cup final this month.
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are 17th and have won 2 of their last 21 games. 🤷♂️
There doesn’t seem to be much reward for clubs who’ve managed to keep playing through this latest wave of Covid infections. Newcastle will play their 4th fixture in 2 weeks tomorrow while Manchester United haven’t played in 16 days.
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It was an accidental clash of heads but surely if a player is down with a head injury, Mike Dean should’ve stopped the game before the first goal?
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You can’t on the one hand say Newcastle were wrong to sack Steve Bruce, and then on the other say Eddie Howe faces an impossible task to keep them in the Premier League. It just doesn’t make sense.
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Sat down with Newcastle’s club record signing, Alexander Isak, today. He seems a very mature, intelligent and ambitious young player who thinks Premier League football suits his style. He’s fit to make his home debut tomorrow. Interview
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later this afternoon
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@AndyKerrtv
The expectation is to have a club with even a little bit of ambition and to be able to see a minimal yet acceptable amount of progress year on year. Not too much to ask?
We have neither ..........
It’s a couple of years since I was last at St James’ Park. A lot has changed since then. Not least the atmosphere. This reminds me of watching football here in the 90’s and early 2000’s
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Ben Brereton Diaz hang your head in shame, throwing yourself to the ground to get a fellow player sent off. Stupidity from Schar to give him the opportunity
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If Newcastle hadn’t already been given a penalty, is there any doubt the ref gives a penalty for the Walker challenge on Joelinton?
It shouldn’t matter but a ref has to be brave to give 2 to the same team in the same game.
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Glenn Roeder brought stability to Newcastle as club captain and as manager after the turbulent Souness era. I was working quite closely with Newcastle at that time. The thing that really stood out was how proud he was to be
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manager and what the club meant to him. RIP Glenn
Whatever the result and final position today, Allan Saint-Maximin is right. Avoiding relegation shouldn’t be seen as success for
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. Newcastle were relegated 4 times in 105 years before the current ownership. The aim has to be higher than that.
Interesting from Ruud Gullit on beIN Sports tonight.
“Newcastle is a fantastic club. I had a good time there. The fans just want something to cheer but the best players want to be in London, Manchester or Liverpool so
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end up with overpaid players who aren’t good enough.”
Didier Domi is with me in the beIN studio today. We’re comparing this set up to his
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side under Sir Bobby. If you ask players to play like this, are you subconsciously telling them they’re inferior to Tottenham? Whereas Bobby had them believing they could beat anyone.
Didier Domi on
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“ The owner should ask 3 questions: Is the manager improving the team individually and collectively? Is he motivating them? Is he playing the right system? If the answer is yes, he continues. It’s a no for me. I would change it now.”
West Brom and Sheffield United are the 2 worst home defences in the Premier League.
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haven’t managed a goal at either Bramall Lane or the Hawthorns.
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chat on beIN tonight.
Didier Domi “ I don’t like to call for managers to be sacked but the numbers don’t lie. I’d change it now.”
Nigel De Jong “ All the signs are there, the players have stopped playing for the coach. 9 games left, it’s not too late. They need 3 wins.”
Building up to the N London Derby, listening to Spurs fans complaining about how far their team has fallen. This is a team who’ve qualified for Europe for the last 10 seasons. But when
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fans point out how far their club has fallen in the last 13 years they expect too much 🤷♂️
With 2 or 3 games like this before the end of the season,
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striker Callum Wilson could be the surprise name who sneaks into the England squad for the Euros. He’s fresh after missing so much football this year. As good a natural finisher as anyone, behind Kane.
It seems unfair to start questioning Zidane after what he achieved at Real in his first spell as coach, but watching
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today it’s difficult to see why he is so reluctant to play Gareth Bale.
I respect your reply, however, here is an interesting fact: before the current ownership at SJP, Manchester United had been relegated more times than
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. That’s Manchester United, generally accepted as the biggest club in the world. But Newcastle were a yo-yo Club.
@AndyKerrtv
They had a brief period of knocking at the top for a few seasons under Robson and Keegan - like their whole history - it's up and down... like a YOYO believe it or not
Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink in the BeIN Sports studio tonight “Newcastle have to pay the £16m to make Rondon’s transfer permanent. You get very little for that money in today’s market.”
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You know Neil Warnock is going to be livid about the Chelsea equaliser. And rightly so. Azpilicueta was 2 yards offside. How can the officials miss that? Cardiff looked good for 3 points which could have been huge in survival terms. It completely knocked the fight out of them.
Big fan of Rio Ferdinand as a player and a pundit. But that is just not factually true.
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have become a yo yo club under the current ownership. The previous 15 years had been the best most Newcastle fans (alive today) have ever watched at SJP
Profit and sustainability ( FFP) was an idea developed with good intentions to protect vulnerable football clubs. Is it still protecting the right people? Former Newcastle and Man City keeper Shay Given says not
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Moises Caicedo is a very good footballer. He does a lot of the hard work that can be hard to measure. But £115m for a player who’s played 1 full season in England and scored 2 goals and 2 assists?
How much does that make Bruno Guimaraes worth?
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What’s all this excitement about Benzema being back in the French squad? Surely the big shock is that Allan Saint-Maximin isn’t in there? Sacrebleu
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Yoshinori Muto always seemed like a great guy and team player but never looked a top level striker who could start week in, week out for
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. Surely a lesson that it’s better value to go for 1 top striker like Wilson than 3 or 4 like Muto, Joselu and Gayle?
At home to Watford (reserves) for a place in the FA Cup 5th round. A goal down with 10 minutes to play. Rondon is on the bench but Rafa brings on another centre half. That sums up
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in the FA Cup. Painful for the 35,000 at SJP
Chelsea can break a
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record tonight. If they beat Slavia Prague they’ll be the first English team to win 11 European games in a single season. The current record is 10 held jointly be Newcastle and Manchester United.
Just turned on the radio and heard the headline ‘Premier League Manager loses job’ Was i the only one who wrongly assumed it must be Steve Bruce.
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What is a fair expectation for a Newcastle fan? The Premier League has the historical big 3, Man Utd, Liverpool and Arsenal.
Man City, Tottenham and Chelsea make up the current big 6.
So is it fair to put
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alongside the group of Leicester, Everton, Villa and West Ham?
That was a very frank and honest post match analysis. Didier Domi doesn’t like to criticise unnecessarily. Even he said “At least 3 or 4 of those players aren’t good enough to play for Newcastle” and likened the performance to the final days playing under Ruud.
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Devils advocate.
Newcastle’s players will be home before the FA Cup Final kicks off. Real Madrid and Borussia Dortmund’s players still have 2 weeks of their season to play. This helps fix the PSR problem. Yes, not ideal but it’s not like they’ll be flying economy class.
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🇦🇺 Kieran Trippier questions NUFC decision to fly off on post-season tour of Australia & says it is far from ideal, especially on eve of Euros
🇪🇸 “It’s not like it’s Benidorm around the corner, it’s 25 hours away!”
Fascinating chat with Bruno Guimaraes on that ankle injury ahead of today’s game.
“I played many games with pain for 3 or 4 months. I came back before I should have to help the team. I have no regrets, it was an unbelievable season.”
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Full interview on
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Or was I happy to just be a non playing sub? I told him it would make my life to get on. “That’s all I needed to hear” he said in his broad Northumbrian Geordie accent. He put me on. Shearer scored a hat trick, we lost and it was still one of the best days of my life
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Amidst all the anticipation of new arrivals at Newcastle, would fans like to see Steve Bruce reach the 1000 game mark at
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? ( He’s on 999 now)
Whatever you think of his record at SJP, would it be harsh to leave him stranded 1 short of such a milestone?
Why would any Premier League club not ask for lower league opponents to have Covid testing done, even if they have to cover the cost? Every Premier League point is worth millions of pounds, so surely it comes down to risk / reward?
Who plays wide left when the England squad is announced next week?
Rashford 6 in 33 and 5 assists?
Grealish ( injured) 3 goals in 27 plus 2 assists?
How about Anthony Gordon? 10 in 42 plus 5 assists. 3 in his last 4 games. He must be close?
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You have to be pretty negative to find fault with a draw away to Milan.
City only won once away in the Champions League last season. They won it.
Manchester United have won 1 of their last 6.
Atletico Madrid have lost their last 4 away.
Barcelona 2 of 7.
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I played for Jack Charlton once. A charity match for the Princes Trust. It’s something I’ll never forget. 33,000 fans at St James’ Park. Shearer, Ferdinand, Beardsley and Gazza all in the ‘home team’ I was on the opposition bench. Jack asked me if I really wanted to come on 1/2
It’s obvious to anyone who’s watched
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play this season that
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is an exceptional footballer. But I was even more impressed after sitting down to talk to him this week. Full interview to follow
Looking back at the stats, I’d forgotten just how incredible Andy Cole’s 93/94 season was. 34 Premier League goals in 40 games for
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every one from open play. No penalties. For comparison, Haaland has 28 from open play (7 pens) in 30 starts so far.
Cole also had 13 assists.
If you’re an
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fan and have half an hour free, I’d strongly recommend ‘Les Ferdinand - The Year of My Life’ I’m biased but such a pleasure to listen to him talking about 1995/96. What made that team so special, and where it ultimately slipped away.
Newcastle injury update:
Callum Wilson was feeling his hamstring at half time. Ryan Fraser ‘ feeling his groin’ in the warm up. Dan Burn suffered a suspected concussion
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Barcelona were 2 games away from becoming the first side to go a full 38 games season unbeaten in La Liga. Levante were 16th and had just avoided relegation. Unbelievable Levante 5-4 Barcelona
The Nigeria win is a good result for Argentina. One last chance for Messi to drag this team through to the knockout stages. This is all a bit de ja vu from the South American qualifiers
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I don’t understand that England team today. Surely in the final warm up game before a major tournament you want to be as close as possible to the team that will start the Euros.
That was one of those nights when I love my job. Sensational game and I even managed to get a pic with ‘Big Ears’ … that’s the trophy btw, not some cruel nickname for
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If Newcastle beat Manchester United tonight and Solskjaer is sacked, I don’t think he’ll get much sympathy from a section of older
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fans who still remember that cynical red card tackle on Rob Lee at Old Trafford