I know we should be used to the way Newcastle United is covered in the media, but this really stuck in our throats.
Unfortunately, so many journalists and their bosses are acting like desperate NUFC YouTubers.
Willing to say absolutely anything to get attention and therefore money.
They have never been deeper than they are now when it comes to barrel scraping.
They will say and do absolutely anything to be as negative as possible because they know that by going over the top they will get noticed.
This headline appeared on my Newcastle United feed: ‘Four ways Newcastle United can save their miserable season’an article by Mark Douglas on i-news.
Who exactly is this intended for?
They certainly can’t be Newcastle United fans.
Unless you just started supporting NUFC two minutes ago.
To all the Newcastle United fans who would use ‘miserable’ as the best word to describe this season, all I can say is hang your head in shame.
Do you think this is miserable???
How entitled are you really?
If you said this, you really can’t be a true fan of the club.
It has certainly been an up and down season so far.
It’s been frustrating too many times.
Yes, some of it was miserable, but that happens every season: you lose some games.
Is it honestly a ‘miserable’ season so far, with Newcastle United having played 27 games, winning 12, drawing six and losing nine?
If I thought this is what true Newcastle United fans believe, we might as well give it our all now.
Any Newcastle fan who would say this season has been miserable, you are an embarrassment to us all. We look down on how fans like Man U, Liverpool and Arsenal behave, how righteous they appear when things don’t go their way. To me, the Newcastle United fans are much worse when they claim this season has been miserable so far and continue to cry like that.
The first season I went to every Newcastle United home game as a kid was the 1977/78 season. I think that means this is my 49th season of going to St James’ Park regularly, more or less every home game, plus many away games over the years.
A few facts about Newcastle United’s seasons from the 1977/78 season…
That very first season (1977/78), when I attended every home game, Newcastle United were relegated ages before the end of the season AND they then dragged the brilliant old Leazes down after the last home game. That was a miserable season.
In the almost half century that I have been regularly attending SJP, I have seen United relegated a total of four times, all four of those seasons being miserable.
Two of those relegations came during the fifteen seasons we started under Mike Ashley. In reality, all those Mike Ashley seasons were miserable as NUFC were at best just treading water and trying to survive while the FCB lined their pockets. Even fifth place in 2011/12 was actually miserable as we found out it didn’t make any difference. Ashley refused to spend even a penny in net to try to build on that accidental breakout season. United almost ended the season relegated after finishing fifth, only reaching safety when they won the very last away game of the season.
Until Eddie Howe came along, I had never seen Newcastle United reach the semi-final of the League Cup in over 45 years of going to the games. THAT is miserable! I’ve seen United reach three League Cup semi-finals now!!
After the 2006/07 season, Newcastle United only played in one of the European competitions in the next 16 seasons. That was miserable.
Until Eddie Howe did his magic, we hadn’t seen Champions League football for over twenty years, which was miserable! Now we are enjoying our second UCL campaign in three years.
Until Eddie Howe worked his magic, Newcastle fans had not been to a cup final for 24 years. THAT was miserable! We are now one step away from a third finale in four seasons.
To really put this into perspective…
If you really think this has been a “miserable” season so far, what about this?
Newcastle United are one round clear of Wembley in the League Cup and on the verge of potentially reaching the last 16 knockout stages of the Champions League, plus just six points off the Champions League qualifying places in the Premier League.
Even more shocking…
This is the first ever season in the entire history of our football club that Newcastle United will enter the new year still in the Champions League AND in all three domestic competitions.
If you’re miserable, I feel sorry for you.
Put it this way, while I hate to ever compare ourselves to them, if their club were in the position Newcastle United are currently in, any Sunderland fan who has supported them for 50 years or less would say this is the best ever season they have had so far.
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