Daily Mail does it again!

Lets look at the facts shall we? We're pretty much safe, team spirit is strong and the lads has just put in a gritty and hard fought performance against the 'champions elect'. All seems rosy. Not for Mr. Mail Journalist. For him, this is one of the most worrying things that could happen. He feels like a man stuck in a desert who has just sipped his last sip of water. He's desperate and his usual source of sustenance (read: easy stories) has run dry. What I'm quite ostentatiously referring to is this:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-1378726/Newcastle-fans-change-Toon-faith-Alan-Pardew.html

It seems in a last desperate attempt to flog a horse which is not only dead but partially decomposed, the mail has attempted to have a pop at the fans, saying we're too quick to look for the negatives. 'Oh, Ashley isn't all that bad, stop crying you've got a lot of money now, who cares if Carroll (your top goalscorer) has gone to one of your rival clubs, at least you've got some money in the bank'. This is the kind of journalism (a profession I hope to enter one day) that makes my blood boil. Its just lazy, a simple solution because there was nothing too stand out or controversial in last night's game that will help what is a dying industry, shift some papers. Let's look at some choice pickings from the article:

'But here they were: Manchester United in town, 40 points on the board by full time and six places above Sunderland in the table. Happy? Of course not.'

Who said we weren't happy overall? We're annoyed about some things but overall, to be in the top half and essentially safe with six games to go is a great achievement and full credit to the players for that.

'Romance is still big business by the Tyne, though. That is why Shearer's appointment was welcomed with such fervour, even though it made no sense. It is why the economic logic of Carroll's departure seems to have passed people by'.

We're fully aware of the economic logic of selling Carroll, what we're peeved off about is the fact that he was sold hours before deadline and no replacement was found. Had we managed to get a decent replacement in January, we'd have probably not lost to Villa and might have nicked a goal last night, making us safer (something the Mail tells us we should be happier about) sooner and pushing for a decent top table finish.

This is my favourite part here:

'By all accounts, Newcastle are on a sounder financial footing, irrespective of the Carroll money. High earners such as Joey Barton and Jose Enrique are also expected to leave in the summer'.

What? Are you serious Mr. Journalist? So we should be happy that are two best players are set to leave in the summer because they are high earners? This is a football club, not a supermarket and worthy replacements to such good players aren't exactly lined up outside the job centre collecting their dole money. They are this season's (Tiote aside) best players need to be paid a fair old whack to stop them going elsewhere. This I have no problem with (especially when players such as Barton are willing to take a pay-cut, a fact totally ignored by Mr. Journalist), however, them leaving for a couple of quid and Newcastle having to find worthy replacements worries the pants off me. The article is so paradoxical is beggars belief. 'Don't worry toon fans, you'll be able to push for top ten finish next year with some investment, oh and by the way your going to lose you best place too but keep on smiling! Pathetic.

What annoys me most is the fact that its ALWAYS us who get treated like this. The mail would never dare call Arsenal fans deluded for believing every season their team of unproven youngsters will win the league and quite often look at Liverpool fans with pity, saying 'aww, they're so passionate despite not winning anything for years'. We, on the other hand, are a national laughing stock; the thick Geordies up north they see on Sky Sports News outside Shearer's (or whatever the hell its called now, a topic for another time) struggling to string a coherent sentences together and are always annoyed at their small little club which will never win anything. Just once, treat us with the respect we deserve; we're the Toon Army, and we love our club and it'll take more than the words of some jumped up, Oxbridge-schooled, toffee-nosed failure of a journalist to tell me otherwise.

Rant over. Peace.

 

Yes, we're terrible terrible fans and people.

What kind of editor does the Mail have though?

 

How can people get payed to write this ****?

 

'What I do know is that if you threw Lovenkrands, Best, Shola (Ameobi), Ranger and Kuqi together into a giant mixer, the combined result wouldn't be a Premier League player.'

Best is a Prem player and has shown it.
Shola has played his entire career in the Prem
Ranger will be a star
Lovenkrands is under-rated and unlucky
Kuqi was bought to provide something different


SHUT UP YOU STUPID APES!!!

 

read this earlier and thought almost exactly what you wrote..

i dont understand the pure hatred of the mail towards us...

all personal issues aside, it is a piss poor right wing paper.. ****ers

 

That part pissed me off the most. How does he know we aren't thankful? Everyone I know who supports Newcastle will openly admit they'd have taken 17th before the season started. What a gobshite, talking openly about a subject he has absolutely no knowledge of. Lazy, biased and ignorant bullshit.

 

Wow 2 days in a row no mention of Newcastle in BBC gossip column.

Anyway the Daily Mail is a lousy paper, FFS they have Louise Taylor as a reporter, also I commented on the column yesterday the bastards didnt print it

 

Ashley banned them from press conferences I believe. That probably gave them a massive chip on their shoulder

 

We've all done very well in criticising the journalist so far though; not one of us has yet been childish enough to comment on the guy's unfortunate surname. Where's Tash when you need him?

 

They supported Hitler and the rise of facism in Europe. Says it all.

 

That could be the issue. The North traditionally tends to vote Labour. Could have something to do with it.

I tend to give no newpaper article any credit unless it comes from the Guardian (ugly mackem aside) or the Independent.

 

I ripped up my season ticket when I realised we weren't gonna win the league.

 

Look at Enrique's gunshow in the first pic

 

Lets see if they print my new comment

 

I ripped up mine because we didn't sign Messi and/or Iniesta.

 

I havent been back because we only beat Villa 6-0 should have been 8

 

What an absolute arse biscuit!

 

I ripped mine up when I realised we weren't Man United Chelsea or Liverpool..

 

If we don't get into the top 4 this season I will boycoutt the club forever.

 

When your called Ian Ladyman and you look like this, you need to do something to stand out of the crowd.

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This person just chose to be an idiot.