i missed the game to other commitments..finished my commitments, open up my wifi phone on KLIA Express and wow we won 1-0 away at the mackems!!!
Now im watching the replay and yes we did get hammered by them in the 1st half but we got chances of our own..2nd half was comfortable for us really..never quite as troubling as the 1st half..
I don't really care with Alan Pardew's non-football tactics..at the end of the day, our objective was to get something out of the game, hold onto the lead and we got it..remember..last season we were 1-0 up and we were still playing football and attacking them in the final few minutes and baaammm Gyan scores the equaliser..this season we shut up shop and credit to Pardew we held on..yes, there was potential to concede a cheap goal with the way Pardew played the teambut it would have been a bigger risk of losing a 1-0 lead by attacking..
but I as a lifelong Newcastle fan have been sick of the sight of opposition players celebrating last minute equalisers and winners against us..if defending instead of attacking in the last 20 minutes is what it takes for us to hold onto leads or draws, im happy for that..at end of the season, points is what matters..
BTW, Ameobi is great against the mackems..thats why he played for anyone still asking why he played..watch him play yesterday and it was a different Ameobi that we got last week against Arsenal..a Geordie knows best on how to beat those against the sad mackems bastarddss..
2 tough games, 4 points, 2 clean sheets..a nice feeling to be a Newcastle fan right now
HOWAY THE LADS!!!!
This post has been edited by dxjb: Aug 21 2011, 10:28 AM