Twisted logic – So difficult to comprehend | OneFootball

When it comes to Newcastle United and indeed football in general, it is all about opinions.

Well, just to clarify that a bit.

Newcastle United and football in general, is all about opinion, results and performances!

The opinions prompted by the other two pretty key things.

I must admit though, I am struggling to comprehend the twisted logic of some Newcastle United fans.

The last eight weeks have produced the following Newcastle United results:

Newcastle 4 Leicester 0

Newcastle 3 Brentford 1

Ipswich 0 Newcastle 4

Newcastle 3 Villa 0

Man U 0 Newcastle 2

Tottenham 1 Newcastle 2

Arsenal 0 Newcastle 2

Newcastle 3 Bromley 1

Newcastle 3 Wolves 0

Newcastle 1 Bournemouth 4

Southampton 1 Newcastle 3

Newcastle 1 Fulham 2

Can anybody honestly tell me, that if they had been offered these results above, any Newcastle United fan wouldn’t have snapped their hand off.

Those Newcastle United results above, the past eight weeks, come out as:

Played 12 Won 10 Drawn 0 Lost 2 Goals Scored 31 Goals Conceded 10

I totally get why you hate the fact NUFC have lost their last two home matches.

However, I am getting very strong Kevin Keegan vibes from some.

For those of you who were around during that amazing journey KK took us on, from almost dropping into the third tier to just missing out on winning the Premier League by a whisker four years later, (almost!) all of us found it an amazing glorious journey that came so close.

Yet back then, there were some Newcastle United fans who talked of Kevin Keegan having ‘lost the title, blaming him for not winning the Premier League, rather than giving him credit for the miracle he had produced in getting us from such a hopeless position to so close to doing it. Even though other clubs were financially stronger and had stronger squads Man U in particular, though not only them by any stretch of the imagination.

Which brings me back to the here and now.

Obviously we have the blight of social media these days and so many characters willing to say anything to get attention, but I also read and here what I consider normal fans, wanting to ‘blame’ Eddie Howe for these two recent defeats and at the same time, all but dismiss the ten matches that have been won during this run.

I can’t believe that any Newcastle United fan doesn’t see winning ten games out of twelve as an unbelievable achievement by Eddie Howe, considering his small squad of credible first team contenders and what has happened these last three transfer windows, with not a single first team contender signed and even a couple of the most promising talents having to be sold.

It feels a lot to me like Eddie Howe is getting punished by these NUFC fans for massively overachieving, getting all those wins against the odds. That because he has raised expectations so high for these people, they simply can’t cope with the odd defeat to another team in the top half.

If you extend the run of matches back by another six weeks and seven games.

This is what you get for the last fourteen weeks with Newcastle United:

Played 19 Won 13 Drawn 2 Lost 4 Goals Scored 43 Goals Conceded 21

Why are some NUFC fans determined to be so negative and not accept that a team will always have its ups and downs, sometime playing better/worse for no apparent reason AND that with what he has available Eddie Howe has worked wonders. To win win 13 of the last 19 matches and lose only four, why wouldn’t you accept that this is an excellent set of results and things do and don’t go your way in various matches?

Newcastle United don’t suddenly have the ‘unbeatables’, a formidable squad that is all powerful.

In these last 14 weeks, Eddie Howe and his players have amongst others, won away at Spurs, Man U and Forest, won at home against Villa and Chelsea, won home and away against Arsenal, plus that thrilling 3-3 classic against Liverpool.

In this run of the last 19 matches, Newcastle United haven’t had any really shocking results, Eddie Howe and his team defeating all of the current bottom four in the Premier League, 14 goals scored and only one conceded as Wolves, Ipswich, Leicester and Southampton comprehensively beaten.

The four defeats have been to Bournemouth, West Ham, Fulham and Brentford. Four clubs that are currently between 7th and 14th in the table and who have all got some really good players, all four of them getting other very good results against the other teams towards the top end, sides who can raise their game as well at times. You can’t be at your best every match and then when other sides take their chances and fine margins don’t go your way either, such as those tow that hit the crossbar with the Fulham keeper well beaten. Then you can lost matches.

I just think it is a question of balance.

On another day Newcastle United could well have won one or more of those four games they lost in this run of nineteen, by the same token, there were matches that were won, where if fine margins had been with the opposition and they had taken certain chances, then United could well have lost one or more of them.

I think with everything I have seen, these runs of 10 wins in 12, 13 wins and 2 draws in the last 19 are a pretty fair reflection overall, on how Newcastle United have performed.

Put it this way, if Eddie Howe and his players win 10 of their next 12, I won’t be complaining. Nor if they manage 13 wins and two draws in the next nineteen.