Match Day Thread نيوكاسل يونايتد v Sunderland AFC – Sunday 22nd March 2026 - KO 12:00

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"aye, he's offside and it's a foul on the keeper but where's the consistency?"

"it's not even a good goal"

"sunderland weren't even trying to score"

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Just had to try and find the sunderland werent trying to score. Who is that ****ing numpty? And he says Bro, ya not a 19 year old American on Tik Tok so **** off with Bro!
 
Football 365 taking the piss out of a Mirror headline :emoticon-0102-bigsm

Getting away with it​


You must forgive Mediawatch’s geeky obsession with headlines, but this one from the Mirror excited us a little bit.

Newcastle United learn disallowed goal verdict as Sunderland ‘got away with one’

Now you and we are very familiar with the long-standing tactic of using the humble, innocent-looking ‘as’ to make two entirely unconnected and very flimsy pieces of information appear to represent one compelling whole (there’s a lovely example coming up later on in here, for instance, look forward to that), but this is slightly different and thus – to us, at least – fascinating.

This is using two pieces of information that are related, but reach entirely opposite conclusions to form one completely misleading whole.

What you have here is a headline that equates the ‘disallowed goal verdict’ of Darren Cann, who knows what he’s talking about, with a mysterious ‘some’ who apparently believed Sunderland ‘got away with one’.

Newcastle United defender Malick Thiaw was rightly denied a goal in the Tyne-Wear derby against Sunderland, according to a former Premier League official. Ex-assistant referee Darren Cann has stated that Jacob Murphy’s interference from an offside position cost the Magpies their goal, despite some believing Sunderland ‘got away with one’.

And thus you have a headline that heavily implies Newcastle have been robbed when the only expert testimony says the exact opposite.

And as for the ‘some’ who said Sunderland ‘got away with one’? Turns out that’s actually just Alan Smith on commentary for Sky. To be honest, good call not to undermine the intro with that information. On balance, we’d agree it probably is better to have people assume it’s just some randoms off twitter.