Newcastle United now experiencing one disaster after another | OneFootball

Will Newcastle United ever recover.

Such a disaster for the fanbase.

The thing is, this isn’t the only disaster.

Newcastle United fans having had to face one after the other

However, coming back from this very latest one is going to take some doing.

I am of course talking about… Newcastle 1 AFC Wimbledon 0.

Yes, apparently for many Newcastle United fans, this was a disaster.

One of the worst things they had ever witnessed.

This is where things have got for me, with so many Newcastle United fans, the very vocal ones anyway – especially on social media, everything is either brilliant or shocking. There is no in between for these people.

The moaning after this Carabao Cup win has been on another level. The tone of some people, you would think that Eddie Howe had played his very best team, then the League Two side had come to St James’ Park and battered us, with United knocked out of the cup with a humiliating three or four goal defeat to fourth tier opposition.

In the real world, Eddie Howe made eight changes from his Premier League side at the weekend, Newcastle completely dominated the ball and the overall game, AFC Wimbledon had one corner, zero efforts on target, two shots of any description according to the stats but which I don’t even remember, probably because they were from thirty yards out and went thirty yards wide, Newcastle playing against a team who camped around their own penalty area and refused to attack even once going behind and even in the dying stages when heading out of the competition. It wasn’t exciting and Newcastle should have taken more of their chances, they should have created more chances, but against a team refusing to come out of their shell it became a bit of a training game, attack against a packed defence, as I say, even when taking the lead through the Schar penalty, nothing then changed after the break.

Back in the late 70s through to early 90s or so, I remember year after year Newcastle United knocked out regularly by lower league sides, we had a woeful record in the League Cup. That was a disaster!!!

However, this disaster of only winning 1-0 and progressing to the last 16 of the League Cup, is actually only the latest in a an ever growing list of disasters.

The most recent one before the cup win, was 10 days earlier.

Newcastle United losing for the first time in over four months.

Apparently a disaster to lose away at Fulham, who are a decent team and played really well, especially in the first half. Newcastle were really poor in the first half but then played a lot better in the second half, though Fulham still deserved the win. Yes a disappointing day, but not the end of the world, as many Newcastle United fans were going on.

The disaster at Fulham had of course followed on from the disaster that was four wins and a draw in the opening five games of the season. Apparently an indifferent start in terms of performances, where United battled to positive results rather than playing as we know they can, as they took time to warm up in the new season, was some kind of a shocking emergency. Rather than just giving Eddie Howe and his players time for the performances to start and match the results. We knew what they were capable of, or at least should have done, as we had seen it so often in the past, yet many Newcastle United fans wanting to believe (and falling for the media trap as so many journalists pushing it) that we were doomed, that these performances were how it was going to be from now on. Instead of recognising many factors that could be contributing, such as the likes of key players such as Gordon, Trippier and Bruno who had very busy summers and minimal pre-season, taking time to pick up. A number of players still injured or getting back to full fitness, such as Botman, Wilson, Miley, Willock, plus of course Eddie Howe easing Tonali back in.

Things got so ridiculous that for the media and some of these Newcastle United fans, even the opening match of the season had become a reference point for how bad things had supposedly got. Yet the reality was that with the game goalless, Schar’s red card meant 10 man United played for 73 minutes BUT kept a clean sheet AND scored the winning goal. How could that be seen as anything but a brilliant effort with 10 men? Yet this is what the NUFC fan disaster culture has turned things into.

The disaster list goes on and one, the further you go back…

Apparently, refusing to pay £75m for Marc Guehi was an embarrassing disaster for some.

When the reality is that in a few months time, United will be able to get him for more like the £50m which is his true worth, meaning that they should also at the same time in January be able to land and afford the right winger *with Almiron and maybe one or more others heading out to help finance, provide PSR flex and make room) we have been wanting/needing.

The enforced PSR sales of Minteh and Anderson were another huge disaster apparently. Despite Minteh still to play a single game in a decent level league at that time and Anderson only having made a relative handful of PL starts at that point.

It was disappointing BUT it wasn’t a disaster. Especially when you factor in that the real reason NUFC ended up having to do those PSR sales in June 2024, was because in the previous five transfer windows, Newcastle United had spending on major transfers of around £430m, whilst in terms of selling players, only around £40m was recouped. As the club tried to recover from a decade and a half of Mike Ashley. In reality, having to sacrifice Anderson and Minteh, due to having bought Minteh, Botman, Bruno, Willock, Tonali, Barnes, Hall, Burn, Trippier, Livramento, Isak, Pope…

There are disasters and then there are… disasters.