A lot better than the drive for Europefor your team that you lot were all banging on about before the season started! As for our shadow, too many to list mate. You've been playing catch up for a long while, whether it be football or just the city itself. We had a little break over the last few years football wise (pity for you) but order is now restored. Good luck winning the North East mini league of mediocrity again. Oh hang on, you won't even get that honour this season will you. My bad.
Lee Ryder, that fountain of unbiased information........................why let the facts get in the way of propaganda. A big up to the Newcastle Chief Steward for issuing the statement though.
So...what will Sunderland fans response be if we qualify for Europe? Serious question chaps, since you make such a mockery of our European ambitions...
Oh it's just Europe now, not the Champions League? If in the very unlikely event (going by your recent results) you do qualify my response will be to cheer on any club you play against. Obviously.
Cyprus, when you are 3 points off the top 4, and in good form, it would be stupidity itself to rule yourself out of challenging for 4th would it not? I don't know a single Newcastle fan (genuinely) who thought we would finish top 4, still the vast majority think 7th with a handful predicting 6th, but no higher. Just because we didn't rule ourselves out, doesn't mean we actually thought it would happen. Much in the same way as Sunderland fans won't rule themselves out of winning the FA Cup.
Yes, because the number of men is really irrelevant in this situation. Sunderland like to get men behind the ball and counter on the break, so you're very hard to break down. You were gifted a goal with the penalty, and then continued as normal with your balance of heavy defending and counter-attacking breaks. Once you went down to 10 men, the only difference was that it took the edge off your attack-force, so while you were struggling to get forward, you still had just as many men behind the ball as usual, if not more, so you basically sacrificed any further goals to keep a hold of that 0-1 lead. This also made you just as difficult to break down defensively as before, i.e. ****ing hard. Sunderland are already very hard to penetrate defensively, so when you guys went defensive-minded with 10 men and basically kept everyone apart from Bendtner behind the ball, it was a whole different challenge, and one that I'm proud we managed to accomplish to some degree. Any team, even teams in the top 4, would have found it very difficult.
Funnily enough we don't care what everyone else thinks of us And delusion? Which clubs supporters were bandying around predictions of a European push this year?
