From Tottenham website The Proud Cockerel (published before today’s game) referring to perceived changes since the last time Newcastle beat Spurs:
…in the space of four months everything has turned full circle and the balance of power between one truly big club and one wannabe who is really nothing more than a clown academy for supporters and players alike has been restored. Spurs go into this game brimming with confidence and playing with a touch of the old swagger, topped up with a glistening trophy safe on the mantelpiece with a head coach who is proving to be even better than the brochure suggested.
Newcastle are the Premier League’s laughing stock once again. Bereft of any belief despite a scrappy win against an awful Fulham side, seemingly unable to create anything in the new era under a manager who promised so much free-flowing entertaining football but has instead been unmasked as a soundbyte-tossing has-been with as about as much clue of modern football as the black and white sheep that follow their ridiculous club.
The final score Spurs 1 - Newcastle 4. Just beautiful.
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March 30, 2008 at 5:34 pm
Mosh
Aw, and he’s too chicken to have public comments on the blog. I’m almost tempted to register just so I can put “HAHAHAHAHAHAAH” but I really can’t be bothered… a bit like their defence.
March 30, 2008 at 5:50 pm
ourmanwhere
The thing is I don’t really do forums any more. Ok so occasionally I got wound up enough to write something but spare me “my club’s bigger than yours” arguments.
In the end - it’s match by match and season by season and how you perform is the only way to win any argument conclusively.
Spurs will no doubt finish higher than us this year - but then again they thought they’d finish fourth so neither of us are exactly covering ourselves in glory.
But today we won - more than handsomely - so this dick can shuffle back off under a stone. He could have been magnanimous in his writing before the game and we wouldn’t be laughing at him. But he wasn’t so we can laugh away.
What a prat.
March 30, 2008 at 6:09 pm
Sujatin
Hmm, Tottenham - a well known saying, me proud cockerels - pride, fall - which order do they come?
March 30, 2008 at 6:30 pm
ourmanwhere
Not so much pride as old fashioned smugness. Wish I could have seen his face.
March 31, 2008 at 12:55 pm
Chris Norton
Well done with the win at the weekend - the team played really well. Tottenham are a pretty decent side but that blog post from that bloke was a tad over the top. I wonder who is thinking - I am glad we got rid of Defoe and kept Bent.
I reckon the turning point for the Toon is now here. Give King Kev some cash in the summer and progress will be made.
March 31, 2008 at 1:08 pm
ourmanwhere
Chris, I hope so. I don’t think cash has been the problem to be honest. The problem is getting players up here.
With the top four so far ahead of the rest in terms of resouces - the rest of us are fighting over scraps. Because this country is so capital-driven your average foreign player has little concept of anything outside of London.
It seems to me that we are two or three transfer windows away from competing at that level again. We won’t get the best in Europe just yet but we need to make some sound buys from players who have the promise to reach that level. Once we’re higher up the table again and players see we are for real then we can go for the really big players.
March 31, 2008 at 2:50 pm
minxlj
What was their response after the game then? Some mangled excuse as to how we fluked a win, perhaps?
LOL…don’t you just love it when smugness is reward with a 4-1 slap in the kisser? :-D
March 31, 2008 at 3:10 pm
ourmanwhere
So far no response - just a deafening silence.
April 1, 2008 at 7:30 am
B
D didn’t even listen to the match, thinking you were going to get stuffed. When my dad told him the score he thought he was joking.
I remember listening to some discussion about the Champion’s league on breakfast news years ago. Arsenal looked like they were about to go out but the presenter said ‘I think they’ll pull a Newcastle’. Do you remember that - where Newcastle would always looks like loosing but pull something out of the bag at the last minute? Was never very good for the blood pressure but fun to watch.
It’s not just foreign players that are capital centric. Don’t quite a few other players (admittedly maybe not current) still live elsewhere and just have bases here?
(I should admit to technically being a Liverpool fan. But living up here, and being married to a Geordie, I find it far easier to follow Newcastle. And Liverpool don’t need the support as much!)
April 1, 2008 at 8:07 am
ourmanwhere
B,
I think it’s a wider argument - if you live in Newcastle, sooner or later you’re going to visit London but people who live in London have no concept of Newcastle.
It’s probably only in the last two or three years that London hacks have stopped using stock phrases about coal mines and slag heaps - they reall did think that the North was still industrial.
In reality, as we all know, Newcastle is a whole lot cleaner and fresher than London.
But there is a stigma attached and players (and wives) often don’t fancy it for various reasons.
I remember seeing the Cowboy Junkies play at the Sage - they admitted to their audience that they couldn’t believe how beautiful their city was. They told us that everyone they met at London (at the BBC) had told them the North East was horrible.
April 1, 2008 at 5:27 pm
B
And flat caps and pigeons. People have started to realise it’s not like that, but you still hear it. I just don’t get it. Sitting in my office today I was looking out and wishing I could have made it out to the coast, it must have been lovely today. Stupid, isn’t it, when you hear all the time people visiting saying ‘wow I had no idea how great this place was’.
Also - that having no concept of Newcastle will have had a LOT to do with why under-Lyme got a shedload of cash that was destined for upon Tyne…….
April 1, 2008 at 5:52 pm
ourmanwhere
You’re right - you still hear it time and time again the level of ignorance is incredible. Every last person I have invited up to Newcastle has loved it - after overcoming their reluctance to actually visit.
I remember when Newcastle were trying to get Harry Redknapp to be our manage (thank God he said no) one of the main reasons that he turned Newcastle down is that he liked living by the coast. He’d obviously had no concept of the geographic location of the city - probably only thinking it was a grim industrial place.