Newcastle United lost Anthony Gordon to suspension. They lost three players to injury. They lost a thrilling match to Liverpool. So why did they look like winners? @georgecaulkin.bsky.social & @chrisdhwaugh.bsky.social
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I guess similar to Man Utd v Arsenal on then opening day of the season, Newcastle have shown they can beat anyone. 👀
aug 26, 2025, 7:38 am • 5 0 • view
Bc down to 10 with some subs we looked better, if not smarter, than 11 man Liverpool. Are we better? No. But there is a really good team there.
aug 26, 2025, 7:48 am • 1 0 • view
Because you lot get more clicks from narrative than reporting
aug 26, 2025, 7:03 am • 15 0 • view
Rash Gordon didn't look much like a winner when he got sent off and cost Newcastle the chance of winning the match.
aug 26, 2025, 10:23 am • 0 0 • view
Pathetic summary. They've looked like a bunch of amateurs all summer. They think they're one of the big boys but Sunderland have got a better pulling power. Dirty tactics backfired in the end and they got what they deserved.
aug 26, 2025, 7:48 am • 10 0 • view
😄 everyone knows why they are being presented as winners despite losing in several damaging ways. Narrative innit.
aug 26, 2025, 6:32 am • 14 0 • view
Dark arts. They are back at it again.
aug 26, 2025, 10:33 am • 0 0 • view
Their approach of running around and fouling everything that moves is in no way applaudable. The fact that they lost in spite of their approach should actually be a point of criticism, rather than a point of praise.
aug 26, 2025, 9:55 am • 4 0 • view
PIF are the plucky underdogs now are they 🤣
aug 26, 2025, 8:13 am • 13 0 • view
Obviously it's the cartel who are the underdogs
aug 26, 2025, 10:33 am • 2 0 • view
Fucking cartel. Do you realise how cringe that is?
aug 26, 2025, 3:32 pm • 2 0 • view
What would you call it?
aug 26, 2025, 4:40 pm • 0 0 • view
Well run club in Liverpool's case spending what we actually earn not spunking some murderous regimes blood money up the wall?
aug 26, 2025, 5:03 pm • 1 0 • view
So how much a club is allowed to spend in your world, is based on a moral judgement related to club ownership. How would you apply that to Aston Villa?
aug 26, 2025, 5:20 pm • 1 0 • view
No, it's based on spending a certain percentage of what you actually make. Believe it or not if you win leagues, European cups etc you make money and don't even need a sugar daddy. It's great
aug 26, 2025, 6:10 pm • 0 0 • view
It's a system designed by the teams currently at the top, in order to prevent anyone else usurping them. You know. A cartel.
aug 26, 2025, 6:20 pm • 1 0 • view
Nope, it's a system brought in to stop clubs spending money they can't afford and going out of business. It wasn't taking into account cheat code clubs with sports washing owners
aug 26, 2025, 6:22 pm • 0 0 • view
Aston Villa?
aug 26, 2025, 6:23 pm • 0 0 • view
Then that cartel must include the richest clubs in Europe. Even if the PL voted against PSR, you'd still have to comply with UEFA's FFP. Or you could forfeit playing in Europe but win the PL every year with your owners spending bucket loads of cash on players who don't want to play in Europe! 🤷♂️
aug 26, 2025, 8:48 pm • 2 0 • view
Clearly there is a European cartel as well. To better compete you need more revenue. A large part of that is being successful. The Premier League cartel have done their best to create a closed shop. They're both cartels.
aug 27, 2025, 5:51 am • 1 0 • view
Newcastle outspending Liverpool until this window, bloody cartel 🤣
aug 26, 2025, 4:27 pm • 2 0 • view
Yeah right.
aug 26, 2025, 4:42 pm • 0 0 • view
In the last 5 years Newcastle have spent net £-430m with Liverpool spending net £-301m
aug 26, 2025, 5:12 pm • 0 0 • view
Net. Exactly. Mike Ashley.
aug 26, 2025, 5:24 pm • 0 0 • view
Non state owned clubs have to leave within their means.
aug 26, 2025, 6:04 pm • 1 0 • view
You mean like Chelsea?
aug 26, 2025, 6:08 pm • 0 0 • view
Chelsea sell about 40 players every season, sell the women's team etc.
aug 26, 2025, 6:11 pm • 0 0 • view
Truth hurts
aug 26, 2025, 5:02 pm • 0 0 • view
They look like winners?!
aug 26, 2025, 7:33 am • 7 0 • view
Hey, they can look like winners as much as they want if we can still keep the 3 pts ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
aug 26, 2025, 8:17 am • 3 0 • view
The athletic seems deeply committed to support this blatant sports washing and Newcastle’s nasty tactics on and off the pitch.
aug 26, 2025, 1:57 pm • 2 0 • view
Because the sportswashing is working a treat?
aug 26, 2025, 7:18 am • 23 0 • view
They didn't. They look like a club with a huge gap in the strategic side of football operations who built the game into something more than it was and let it get to their head. Then they lost the game. Bit of a laughing stock but media desperate for a narrative as per.
aug 26, 2025, 7:03 am • 20 0 • view
Siri define delusion
aug 26, 2025, 10:05 am • 3 0 • view
Because you're all being weird about this team.
aug 26, 2025, 7:14 am • 18 0 • view
I'm going to take a guess that the journalists who wrote this are newcastle fans.
aug 26, 2025, 10:24 am • 3 0 • view
" write this article, or maybe come for a day's training at our embassy in Istanbul?"
aug 26, 2025, 3:33 pm • 0 0 • view
Well posts like this are a magnet for that sort of people - none of who will actually have read any of George's wonderful writings on following Newcastle
aug 26, 2025, 2:25 pm • 1 0 • view
Because the entire media has built this game up for weeks as some kind of "plucky underdogs" ( with their PIF branding everywhere) Vs the evil Liverpool who had the temerity to bid for a player
aug 26, 2025, 6:48 am • 47 0 • view
🇸🇦🇸🇦🇸🇦
aug 26, 2025, 10:01 am • 0 0 • view
because they're losers?
aug 26, 2025, 6:05 pm • 0 0 • view
Sycophantic media coverage?
aug 26, 2025, 6:58 am • 8 0 • view
They didn't. They lost. The ref gave every opportunity for them to win, they could easily have been down to 9.
aug 26, 2025, 12:31 pm • 4 0 • view
aug 26, 2025, 6:41 am • 10 1 • view
You have a very strange definition of “winners”. Thanks for the three points.
aug 26, 2025, 12:07 pm • 0 0 • view
They didn’t. What a stupid article?! 😂
aug 26, 2025, 7:06 am • 11 0 • view
Good grief.
aug 26, 2025, 7:07 am • 4 0 • view
aug 26, 2025, 7:13 am • 4 0 • view
Do Saudi PIF or a Saudi comapny contribute to the Athletic now?
aug 26, 2025, 10:04 am • 3 0 • view
Because the actual football is getting boring. Only 4 clubs have a realistic chance of winning the trophy. It depends on who’s got the most cash. So build up narrative to deflect fr the obvious fact that a club that spent millions on players is gonna be better than a club that hasn’t. Except Man U
aug 26, 2025, 7:51 am • 1 0 • view
NU haven't spent a lot of money on players since the Saudi PIF takeover?
aug 26, 2025, 10:02 am • 0 0 • view
That’s my point. You lost to Liverpool who have. NU aren’t one of the four who could win the league.
aug 26, 2025, 10:48 am • 2 0 • view
NU HAVE spent a lot of money since the takeover..their net transfer spend is very high. It may well have been the highest before the start of this window (joint with 115 FC). LFC are big, big sellers of players as well. Their current net spend this window is lower than EFC even!
aug 26, 2025, 12:22 pm • 0 0 • view
Self sustaining model vs Nation State ownership model.
aug 26, 2025, 12:22 pm • 1 0 • view
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder mate. Didn’t look like winners to me. Looked like a bunch of thugs
aug 26, 2025, 8:30 pm • 2 0 • view
No emotional control, surprised only 1 sent off, ‘get into them’ is hardly the new age of football strategy.
aug 26, 2025, 7:56 am • 8 0 • view
Konate and Gravenberch are both getting sent off in that match, unless they're playing for a cartel club.
aug 26, 2025, 10:36 am • 3 0 • view
Bless
aug 26, 2025, 6:54 pm • 0 0 • view
You sound like an Everton fan
aug 26, 2025, 7:34 pm • 1 0 • view
Well. I'm not. But I've got nothing against them.
aug 26, 2025, 7:36 pm • 0 0 • view
Hahahaha, are you a horse?
aug 26, 2025, 7:12 am • 2 0 • view
Are you currently eyeing up a seagull?
aug 26, 2025, 8:08 am • 0 0 • view
Paywall
aug 26, 2025, 6:25 am • 1 0 • view
Good. LOL
aug 26, 2025, 10:03 am • 1 0 • view
Morgan Freeman “they didn’t “
aug 26, 2025, 7:48 am • 17 0 • view