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Well the media can breathe a sigh of relief now......we're NOT going to win the league and upset their predictions. As they said all along, we're not really title contenders.The usual crap reports, especially in the Observer but interestingly the same paper has a feature on the title race which discusses NUFC at lentgh - clearly written before yesterday's match. The key points for me are;
Article implies Stonehouse resigned over the 'folly' of signing £16M of players rather than build new training facilities.
The players have to shower and change at SJP before going to Blue Flame ground - didn't know that - pathetic.
Bobby admits he tried in the recent past to buy Fowler.
Article also says BR wants to strengthen but there's no money.
Interesting stuff. Don't know how to put a link on unfortunately but its on the Guardian Unlimited site as well as in the paper.
-- Anonymous, December 30, 2001
BTW if you read Paul Wilson's match report in the Observer, you might agree with me that it seems as if he was revelling in our downfall. Couldn't wait to write us off again.Yes NUFC 'defended like dunces' ON OCCASION but fails to mention we found a keeper on excellent form and one of the best defences in the league. Funny no mention of the 'committed' play of the Chelsea players or the dubious offside decions, or play acting or etc etc. Also says 'for Robson read Keegan'. Eh? In NO way are we like a KK team now. Same old boring stereotypes about NUFC defence are trotted out........change the record you sad media gits.
I don't think we deserved to win but we weren't that bad either.
-- Anonymous, December 30, 2001
on this evidence they will struggle in 2002 to match what they achieved at the end of 2001. Tosser. (You own the copyright for that in the singular, Clarky?)Link's here, though I don't recommend going there.
-- Anonymous, December 30, 2001
As I said in my post on the Match Report thread, most of the problems were created by Gudjohnsen pulling deep and creating acres of space - a la Sheringham.The disappointment in this is that this was not novel - he does that every single match - and I'm staggered that we didn't appear to have any plan to cope with it. O'Brien or Speed should have been told to ensure one of them tracked him, depending on how deep he went. This is not rocket science, but yet again we have fallen for something entirely predictable, and not even particularly clever.
-- Anonymous, December 30, 2001
What would they have written if Shearer's header or free kick had gone in and Chelsea had fallen apart?All that tripe about Man Utd's season being over - on the evidence of a few games, then they change their mind. But with Newcastle our season is over already because we lost a single game to a team with a great 'keeper.
We weren't at our best by any means, but against a weaker goalkeeper we could have come away with three points.
Sadly, I see a striking resemblence between Chelsea and Liverpool - both play very negative defensive football and knock long balls over the top. If this is the way football is going in this country then I'm going to live in Spain. We (well Robbie Elliott really) tried long balls over the top and we were useless at it. Our best moves came down the wings yet the balls were constantly pumped up to Shearer's head.
On the bright side, we are still the form team in the league despite the defeat (this could change with Man Utd's match today of course) and are still well within the top 6 - we would need to really capitulate to drop out of the European spots. 2nd in the league (or it should be joint top as the media somehow figured Liverpool were when they had a worse goal difference than us), and a £15m striker on target for 20 goals or more this season.
If we bring Rob Lee back against Man Utd I fancy us for a point. If we don't, we'll get beaten from pillar to post. It's a shame that 3 of the top 6 got fortunate in the final minutes of their games. Arsenal shouldn't have been level by the time Ashley Cole headed the winner after Henry's blatant foul, Liverpool could easily have been 3- 0 down by the 88th minute when Owen struck, and dirty Leeds grabbed a last minute winner through one of their triallists. Bastards. At least Villa and Spurs drew though, that is a pretty good result.
-- Anonymous, December 30, 2001
I must admit to thinking the Observer match headline was rather clever - Eidur downs Georides. Probably something similar has been used loads of times before though.I'm looking forward to Thursday's "Bellamy tolls for Manure", "Dyer warning for Ferguson", "Alan shears woolly defence", I could have done this job!
-- Anonymous, December 31, 2001
At least I could have done if only I could spell!
-- Anonymous, December 31, 2001
Au contraire Jacko. You seem eminently qualified to write for the Grauniad ;-)
-- Anonymous, December 31, 2001
Thanks Scarcheer!
-- Anonymous, December 31, 2001