You've just gotta laugh...

How the hell can the southern hacks come up with this ****e

http://bwinbetting.com/spurs-break-newcastle-resistance-strong-2nd,8046.html?

especially the last sentence

"But with Spurs on the up and Newcastle looking increasingly vulnerable, a Tottenham win still looks like the best bet."

how the **** do they draw the conclusion that we are looking increasingly vulnerable eh?

comments welcome (as in the style of Ed Harrison get well soon Ed)

 

Answers on a postcard please...

 

Probably based on the last five minutes v Wolves. That's how short sighted most of these so called experts are.

 

it's the Southern bias so just ignore them...

 

Probly based off QPR and Wolves games to be truthful where we more than rid our luck.

 

I think this is all just an elaborate metaphor, highlighting the fact that Tottenham (the area in the London Borough of Hackney) is on the rise socially and economically (even given the riots of August) where as Newcastle (the metropolitan borough of Tyne and Wear) is on a steady fall.

I mean, come on, even the name of the metropolitan county is a give-away. When would you use the word "wear" (defined as erosion or sideways displacement) to describe something fruitful?!

Since the filming of Byker Grove was axed, there is nothing left in Newcastle. This children's TV program was the only means of work for the people of the North East, employing some 1.5 million people. Now that has finished, and Ant and Dec fulfilled every Northerners dream of moving South, there is no hope for the "geordies", as expressed in BWIN's eloquent article, habituating metaphors beautifully.

 

You could potentially infer that Spurs are using underhand and violent methods to ensure and maintain their rise up the social and economic strata based on the name of the borough ‘Hackney’ when using a phonetic standard such as ‘sounds like’.

 

There is a more obvious reason for the bigging up of the spuds. Hype up the soft southern shandy drinkers/ all the outside money goes on them/ Newcastle pull off miraculous win/ kerching. It is a betting site after all.

 

Agreed. They think that just because QPR raped us for around 30 mins and Wolves battered us for 10 mins, that we're steadily starting to become ****.

 

I think that the southern press and football pundits do not think that we are worthy of our league position.

If we were Blackpool, Burnley or any other newly promoted team they would be waxing lyrical about our unbeaten start to the season. If we were Stoke, Fulham or Bolton, they would be admiring how we are building on a good season last year and making steady progress going forward.

But with Newcastle, the press only seem happy when we are in trouble, both on and off the pitch. "Newcastle doing well" is not really a story is it? It is much easier for lazy journalists to churn out the same old cliches about "Messiahs", "Looney Toons" and "Deluded, impatient fans" than it is to actually construct an interesting, well researched and well balanced article. It seems as if their attitude is one of "the sooner Newcastle's good run comes to an end the better."

In the past we have given them plenty of ammunition and some of their criticisms were justified, but the team has had a great start to the season and should get better and better the more the lads get used to playing together as the season progresses. NUFC is becoming a financially viable entity in its own right, and if Ashley sticks to his plan of buying young players with potential to develop into top class footballers, the future could be very good. (I know that's a big IF, though)

It is as if they are all waiting for us to hit a bad patch so that they can say "I told you so." as if they are the only ones who realise that we probably won't be in the top four at the end of the season. But instead of letting us enjoy our moment up the top end of the table they insist on belittling our good start. All we have heard is that we have been lucky or the opposition were poor, but every team enjoys luck at times, and we have also endured our fair share of bad luck over the last few years, but this is never mentioned.

Yes, I can accept that we have not played any of the top teams apart from an Arsenal side in disarray, but we have taken an additional 10 points from last season's corresponding fixtures, which is a good indication of our improvement. The team looks like it will play a more pleasing-to-the-eye style of football and, although the squad still has a couple of gaps in it, we do seem to have more strength in depth. Pardew also seems to have more options with regards to formations and players that can vary our style of play when required. Last year's starting 11 vitually picked itself, but the same cannot be said for this year. Just look at the players that will probably be on the bench this weekend.

Pardew has lost his so-called star players and the backbone of the team in Carroll, Nolan, Barton and Enrique. He has brought in players that most people know little about, spending a modest amount in the process, and yet here we are unbeaten in 9 games in the league and cup. If David Moyes had done this at Everton he would be hailed as a miracle worker, yet very little is said about the job that Pardew is doing.

And so we come to Sunday's game. The media and so-called experts are building this up as the game where we fall apart. Tottenham will be far too strong, skillfull and quick for us. `Arry's team will bring us down to earth with a bump, the first time we meet a decent team.(which is an insult to the other Premiership teams that we have already faced.)

A win or a draw for us will no doubt mean that we have to endure similar rhetoric regarding our opposition letting us off the hook and our good fortune continuing. In many ways I hope that the media continue to belittle what is happening at our club, and that we continue to prove them wrong with their predictions, but it would be nice, just once, for someone to give Pardew and the lads the credit that they deserve. Unfortunately, as I said at the beginning of this article, the buggers don't think that we deserve any credit.

 

Look the press like building up people then knock them down. With us they dont waste time on building they just knock us. All we can do is enjoy the ride

 

They're only as bad as some of the chaps on here who seem to be completely blind to the fact that we have been rather fortunate so far this season.

 

And untested. Don't forget untested.

 

**** em soft southern bastards

 

The first sentence is wrong...

"The best defence in the league goes up against a team which has scored at least twice in their last five matches at St James’ Park on Sunday."

Tottenham only scored once at St James' last season... so it's either bad research or bad English.

 

You realise this probably wasn't even written a journo yes?

It's on a betting site and basically encouraging everyone to bet on the favourite so when we continue our unbeaten run (playing at home) they get to keep all the money bet on Spurs?

 

So the morale decline of our respective areas fits perfectly into this metaphor.

Newcastle - Burnt the **** out of our own neighbourhood and caused chaos over the summer.
Tottenham - Sat enjoying their lovely new NE1 garden areas and watching the city redevelopments take place.


Oh wait...

 

Insulting our rivals' area probably isnt the best way to wind us up
Future WUMs take note of how not to do it.

 

I was about to take you seriously, right up till the point I noticed you lived 1 bus ride away from me.

 

hahahaha I don't actually live there anymore I was there for 3 years while I studied at Warwick; I actually live in Whitley Bay.