Newcastle United now need to target Manchester United | OneFootball

After a few lunchtime refreshments I decided to stay in the club yesterday before the Manchester derby, as a swathe of strangers arrived, also one fella who is on the committee and is a Manchester United fan.

He proclaimed upon his arrival that Manchester United were good enough for a draw as he skulked to the other side of the bar and I loudly retaliated…”Rubbish, City will put four or five past you and Haaland will get a hat-trick.”

Most of the young lads who had came in for the match were sitting near our table and it was soon established that they were Toon fans who had just came in for a pint because we are cheaper than the other boozers.

They all fancied City to destroy the ‘Faded Fergies’ and I had them laughing when I said that Haaland is such a beast, instead of cornflakes, he has pickled onion Monster Munch with milk in the morning.

Man City should have been at least one up before the breakthrough goal early on by Foden.

I was then disappointed that they apparently started showboating for ten minutes, it also became obvious that Jack Grealish is the new ‘Jigsaw’ when it comes to getting into scoring opportunities inside the box.

Then the goals started flowing and Haaland was on hand twice to help Man City lead 4-0 at half-time.

Was I happy….was I not.

The plastic Manchester United fan on the committee had been slumped in his seat for 45 minutes.

I had words with this fella after the Newcastle United takeover last year, reminding him that the Saudis had been sponsoring Manchester Unuted for almost a decade and a half and that most of their fanbase, including the hypocritical journalists Miguel Delaney and Oliver Holt, had seen nothing wrong with a takeover by the Saudi PIF of the Salford Reds.

It was us who won the lottery though and me and him rarely speak.

Anybody from up here who follows and supports Manchester United or Liverpool gets hardly any grace off me anyhow.

Manchester United actually ‘won; the second-half 3-2, but the die had already been well and truly cast on another humiliation for this declining outfit.

So 6-3 to Man City and hat-tricks for Erling Haaland and the impressive Phil Foden.

Grealish doesn’t look like he could score in a brothel with a wad of £50 notes tucked under his Alice-band.

As I said in my article yesterday, we were 3-1 up against Man City recently but they still had enough to earn a 3-3 draw.

That result / performance was unthinkable a year ago.

I want us to take the game to Ten Hag’s reds when we play them in 13 days time. Our possession statistics are good. The discontent in that camp is there for all to see.

Ronaldo looked as sick as a mackem on caviar and champagne, who has also just found out that the last caravan has gone at Whitley Bay for next April.

Brighton are currently punching above their weight.

With the World Cup break looming fast, now is the time for Newcastle United to make an assault on the Septic Six.