How fucking shit is Isak now man?? did absolutely nothing all game, got rag dolled by our entire team then bottles a penalty at the end. Genuine shout for the biggest flop of all time
🚨Roy Keane on the controversial penalty awarded to Liverpool after Lewis Hall’s challenge on Victor Muñoz:
🗣️ Roy Keane: “For me, that is not a penalty. I’m sorry, but Newcastle have been completely robbed here. Their knees collide that’s what happens in a football match when two players are competing for the ball. What exactly was Lewis Hall supposed to do? Stand still and allow the attacker to run through and score?
“There’s no obvious push, no deliberate trip, no reckless challenge. Their knees simply clatter together and Victor Munoz goes down. We’ve seen contact like that a thousand times without a penalty being given. I don’t understand how VAR looks at that and decides Newcastle should be punished.
“Newcastle had this game won. They played well enough to take all three points, defended for their lives and deserved the victory. Then a decision like this changes everything and hands Liverpool a point.
“That’s not the way you want a big Premier League match decided. Newcastle have been robbed of a win, while Liverpool have been handed a lifeline by the officials.”
Bring on the backlash
"He just gets it ya knaa!"
And he did. Some of them go through the motions, mention the city, mention the region, mention the fans and the stadium.
Heard it all before mate, just perform on the weekend and then we'll see.
He did that as well.
Arrived in the relegation zone, hardly a word of the language, no exit clause if the worst happened. Left with a trophy tattooed on his leg. And his gleaming, emotional face tattooed on plenty of others.
Happy to fight, happy to play, happy to shed a tear, but most of all, happy. Happy to represent the club that took him to their heart. Happy to leave? Yeah, probably. But that's football.
Players come and players go. When we bring a replacement in we won't give two shites about the club and the fans he leaves behind. That's football. That's the game. Players with a price on their heads.
They have a price. Everything has a price. But what about the value?
It's singing the songs they really asked you not to sing on the stage on the Town Moor, either drunk on something consumed or just the sheer energy of that day and what it meant to all of us, or possibly both.
It's putting others ahead of you at the moment the trophy was there to be lifted, and then pushing the manager towards the crowd for his moment too.
Football fans aren't daft. They can see through people when there's no substance, or simply just empty words or gestures. Fuck knows we've seen it plenty of times before and no doubt will again.
But he did get it, ya knaa. And maybe that's why it hurts.
And so the backlash. The scar tissue of Gascoigne, Beardsley, Waddle, Cole and all the others who wanted to leave for more money or trophies or the lifestyle or whatever the fuck they or anyone else could think to say to make it not hurt.
More recently it's been Carroll, Cabaye, Gordon, Tonali and of course Isak. Seeing the greener grass of pastures new. Or of currency. All leaving in their own way. Playing when it suited them, when the stage was right. Or for some, not playing at all.
Does it make it easier to see him in the colour of another club? Fighting against us? Of course not. Perspective and philosophical thinking has never been, and hopefully never will be, at the forefront of a football fan's thinking. It's tribalism. It's kill or be killed. It's with us or against us.
It's like the last song at the school disco and that lass who said all the right things and laughed at all the daft jokes is off with that smooth-talking posh cunt.
So then. The name calling. The retrospective "glad he's gone actually". And no doubt the ever so popular booing.
But nothing is owed here. No debt to pay back. It's all been left out there on the grass.
So go on bonny lad, go make your move for whatever fucking reason you want to do it for.
There'll always be those memories. Those goals, those chases back, those fouls and those screams to the crowd. There'll always be the 16th March 2025, and that shiny cup with the black and white ribbons on it. He got that. And so did we.
And the backlash? Aye, it'll come. If that helps ease the pain then fine. But I know, and you know, it's not real.
It's just a smokescreen for the sadness of knowing something was amazing and the realisation that it's now gone.
#nufc
Not one thing about our performance told me it was a derby.
Second to every ball. Wasteful in possession. No urgency. Can’t even remember us getting stuck it at any point.
One of the most limp derby performances I’ve seen. Pathetic. #NUFC
Many have noticed a change in the order of songs pre-match at St James’ Park in the last couple of weeks.
The club have told us the decision to swap Local Hero with the Blaydon Races before kick-off was done primarily at the request of the players and coaching staff, who want to hear the fans singing right at kick-off, which is not possible with Local Hero but is with The Blaydon Races!
So whilst honouring the tradition of those two songs, the club have swapped them round so that Local Hero plays before the team emerge and The Blaydon Races before kick-off.
It’s up to us to live up to that request and belt out the Blaydon Races and also carry it into the game.
Massive game tomorrow night. Bring your scarf, get it twirling, get behind the lads. Howay Newcastle!
Mixed feelings. We will never give up under any circumstances. We deserved more, but many times football is not fair. We stick together. There is still a lot ahead, and your support will always be fundamental. Howay the lads.3️⃣9️⃣🖤🤍
Here we go!
New season, Champions League to come (again), League Cup holders. Who’d have thought just four years ago?
A tough summer so far, but for the lads heading to Villa tomorrow and taking us into the new season, we do what we do best and get behind them from the off.
We are Newcastle United. We will never be defeated.
HOWAY THE LADS!! 🏴🏳️🏴🏳️🏴🏳️
We haven’t had many occasions like this in recent times, they are certainly ones to be savoured.
We need to do all we can on the night for the lads that got us here, what will be will be on the pitch.
A message from the lads ⬇️
HOWAY NEWCASTLE!!! 🏴🏳️🏴🏳️
#BringYourScarf
Tomorrow, 6000 of us will travel to the capital for the cup semi-final.
Yet another massive night. As we pack the away section right behind the goal, it would be amazing to see another sea of black and white backing the lads.
Safe travels all, don’t forget your scarf!🏴🏳️🏴🏳️