Every Newcastle United defeat is a disaster | OneFootball

Should every Newcastle United defeat be viewed as some inexplicable disaster.

I only ask because, well, that is what it feels like at the moment.

For a lot of Newcastle United fans anyway.

As supporters we are all naturally gutted when our team loses a match, the same as any other fanbase.

However, I am talking about something far beyond that, something which to me is seriously unhealthy for our club and fanbase, which does nobody any favours.

Let me explain.

Any and every Newcastle United defeat is followed by a certain part of our fanbase reacting as such

After Newcastle United lose a game, there is now a totally over the top intense post-mortem which lasts at least until the next match.

These fans looking to list as many reasons as possible to ‘prove’ how clueless Eddie Howe supposedly is. How if he hadn’t made all these ‘obvious’ huge blunders, then Newcastle would have won for sure. How Eddie Howe made the wrong team selection, the wrong team set-up, the wrong tactics and so on.

These fans looking to find the player(s) most ‘guilty’ for the defeat. Anything and everything negative that can be found, will be used in evidence against each individual. Any individual mistake, especially if it is a one that ends up negatively and significantly influences the result, will be endlessly discussed and dissected, whilst any attempt by others to talk about that player’s overall performance in the game will be shouted down by the mob. In this process, the personal bias often comes to the fore, exposing the fact that these fans already have it in for this/these scapegoat(s). Everything hugely exaggerated and distorted about the past history of these individuals and you are left wondering how United ever manage to win any game with such terrible useless non-trying players, never mind winning a trophy and qualifying for the Champions League twice in three years.

The conclusions these fans come to, after any Newcastle United defeat, is that one or more of these guilty players should never ever be allowed to play for us again. Whilst as for Eddie Howe, if he doesn’t listen to these self-entitled experts and correct all these very obvious errors he is supposedly making, then he needs replaced ASAP.

My thoughts

It is only natural for fans to look at any Newcastle United defeat and wonder if things had been done differently, could there have been a different outcome? However, what I am talking about above, goes way way way beyond that.

It is just a witch hunt after any loss by these fans, desperate to tear apart both Eddie Howe and as many Newcastle players as possible. Some of the abuse that is aimed at our brilliant manager and many players who have been outstanding for us over a long period of time, I find it absolutely shameful.

So many factors influence every single match and there are games where the manager and his players can’t be faulted on anything they have done, yet still lose. Whilst also the opposite, the team selection and tactics all wrong and the players so poor, yet somehow you fluke the win still.

So many games are decided by such fine margins and luck.

Just this past week, what if at 0-0 Foden hadn’t put his sitter wide, or if Barnes’ winning goal had been decided offside after that endless VAR check? What if Newcastle had gone 2-0 up by half-time from one of the many excellent situations they created, or if Aubameyang had put that equaliser just wide of the post rather than brilliantly finishing from an acute angle?

Newcastle played well on Tuesday night and it was poor individual mistakes when defending that ended up delivering Marseille the win, as well as two brilliant Aubameyang finishes, as well as United failing to make it 2-0 in that first half.

In the minds of some Newcastle United fans, it seems that United have suddenly become a team of all the talents who should never be defeated and that it is a disgrace and inexplicable when it happens, no matter the circumstances.

Some matches you win and some you lose. All you hope is that in as many games as possible, your team creates as many chances as possible whilst restricting the opposition to as few as possible. It then becomes a case of how many of those chances can be converted into goals at either end. So many factors in play and sometimes you can have twenty chances and only one for the opposition yet lose, then vice-versa.

As I say, I thought it was a good match in Marseille and the result could have gone either way. There were positives and negatives to the performance, mistakes were made and some great moments of play, no need though to annihilate our own Newcastle United manager and players though, just because we ended up losing by a single goal margin away from home, against a team who very rarely lose at home.

It should be no surprise though the way some of these Newcastle United fans go on, where all they are interested in is having a go at Eddie Howe and certain Newcastle United players.

Just look at earlier this season when Newcastle played really well first half against Barcelona and had chances to take the lead. Only for Rashford to score a brilliant header and then a world class winner. Yet for some of these NUFC fans it was a shocking defeat and if only Eddie Howe had…

Even more bizarre when with 10 men Newcastle were brilliant against Liverpool and fully deserved to win on their overall performance, yet for many of the critics the story of the game was Eddie Howe supposedly getting things wrong and so on.

Perspective

I know it is a waste of time trying to talk to many of these people, I have tried!

However, the fact remains that we are so so so lucky to have Eddie Howe and so many of these Newcastle United players (that Eddie has signed and/or remodelled!), if you don’t recognise that and take in all factors and give it some perspective, then you don’t deserve the brilliant Eddie Howe and his NUFC squad who have given us so much AND continue to do so.

There has been so many tough factors for Eddie Howe to deal with, an absolute mess of a summer through no fault of his own, five of the six summer signings having no pre-season with Newcastle, so many injuries and suspensions to key players as well. Just watch when he has the likes of Yoane Wissa fit, Anthony Gordon firing again when fully fit, plus the likes of Hall and Tino now back. The time to judge will be at the end of the season and if in the meantime Newcastle lose any particular match, it doesn’t necessarily have to be a disgrace and a guilty verdict for anybody.