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Newcastle 2 City 3

 City are probably the only team in the premier league that I feel is better than us in every position. Like, you just go into it feeling the match is entirely hopelesss. But I don't really get why we're the only club that has to follow financial fair play, because teams like Chelsea and City don't. They always splash hundreds of millions out on the next shiny new thing, yet we can't even afford Dominic Solanke. I don't understand that at all. First, Solanke is not even a player we should be interested in, but if we can't even afford him, then there's no hope of bringing in anyone who even remotely approaches world class level. And knowing how short we are of players, nothing's been done to bring anyone in, when they should at least be making loan moves. I mean Chelsea have a whole squad of players they never use and we don't even make an inquiry.  Instead we're stuck with Almiron charging around with no clue as to how to score or pass a decent b...

at mackems

 mackems 0  Newcastle 3 A proper 3-0 stomping, with Trippier seemingly back to his normal self and the rest of the team looking like they are close to recovery. The primary issue was the 3 goals were all quite generous, an own goal, a poor giveaway leading to a one pass empty net, and a penalty, ha. We didn't create much, despite dominating them. Against a premier league side, it might have been 0-0. The next match against City, it's a problem of facing the wrong team at the wrong time, we really could have done with anyone else.