nomorethaksintimes said:
To the same extent we shouldn't refrain from calling a spade a spade. I'm sure the OP wouldn't have similar comments if we were facing Spurs for example - or Napoli away next week. If it's an objective opinion and Newcastle's current threat then fair enough...better than patronising the opposition and patting them on the back. I remember a few City fans after the Wigan games saying they were a 'well drilled team who played good football'...well in that match that observation was a pile of bollocks and then some!
A spade is a spade - Wigan are rubbish, Newcastle aren't close to rubbish. Calling Newcastle, one of the six best teams in the country at the moment, rubbish is basically calling every team worse than them rubbish too. That is strikingly familiar to rags and Gooners saying we "have no history" and thus labelling 95% of teams by association in the same bracket.
Newcastle also have one of the best midfielders in the league, someone I knew would be a bargain buy - Cabaye.