Let’s all laugh at Sunderland! Sunderland 0-1 Newcastle.

Raylor celebrates the winner at Sunderland.
Today we saw everything the defines a local derby. Guts and glory, blood and thunder, tough tackles and tight play. It was there for us all to see.

And you want to know the best thing? We beat the scum in their own back yard again. Steve Bruce will have to upgrade his CD player to a more technologically advanced medium if he ever wants us to hear the song he has in waiting for us. ******.

Newcastle made one change for the game as Demba Ba dropped out allowing Gabriel Obertan to make his full Premier League debut whilst the hosts remained unchanged from the 1-1 draw with Liverpool as Asamoah Gyan recovered from the injury he picked up last week and was proved fit enough to start.

It was Sunderland who edged the early exchanges. Spurred on by a rare full house at the Stadium of Light they set about taking the game to their local rivals. Chances followed but they were unable to convert them through a combination of poor finishing and poor final ball with a bit of bad luck thrown in for good measure. Not that I minded that of course.

Eventually the initial onslaught subsided and Newcastle managed to even up the run of play a little. To his credit referee Howard Webb tried his best to allow the game to run, but with the amount of tackles flying in it was only going to be a matter of time before he produced his wallet from his top pocket. That is about all of the credit I will give Webb however.

You see I dislike Howard Webb. I cringed when I saw it was he who was officiating the game this afternoon. I was proved right halfway through the first-half when Webb and his linesman managed to somehow not see a blatant handball on the Sunderland goal-line by Seb Larsson.

Yohan Cabaye fred in a deep corner which Joey Barton headed towards goal. His effort was cleared over the bar by Larsson’s hand which resulted in a mass protest by the Newcastle players. They had a point aswell. It was obvious without the need of a TV replay although they confirmed what was initially thought. Had it been spotted then Sunderland would surely have been down to ten men and would have had to face a penalty.

Having said that, Newcastle were also lucky to finish the half with a full compliment of players after Yohan Cabaye smashed through Phil Bardsley with raised studs. The former Lille man had been getting stuck in accordingly throughout the match and deserves to have shaken off any notion of him being a tackle dodging Frenchman, but his foot was knee high with studs showing. In the end both teams were fortunate so I guess they cancel each other out although the handball was certainly the clearest offence and the one that left less to interpretation.

In terms of goalmouth action in the first half there wasn’t too much to report. Most of the action was restricted to long range efforts as Sunderland threatened twice from Asamoah Gyan and once through Stephane Sessegnon who was denied by Tim Krul with a fine reflex save. In return Yohan Cabaye had a decent shot for us but it was never really in danger of beating Mignolet in the Sunderland goal whilst Shola Ameobi headed wide from point blank range although he was flagged offside so it wouldn’t have counted anyway.

There were no changes at half-time and the second half got under way in much the same way as the first as the home crowd frothed and fizzed their team on. Their onslaught didn’t last as long as the first half though and Newcastle soon started eeking their way into the game.

Gabriel Obertan, Joey Barton, Jonas Gutierrez were all much improved from their first-half performances, and it was the latter of three who had a hand in the goal when he was brought down by Lee Cattermole. Ryan Taylor despatched the resulting free-kick over the despairing Simon Mignolet and into the top corner of his net to send the away fans into raptures.

From then on you could see the heads drop on the Sunderland players. It was joyous. From then on it was as if we were the home side and they were the away side as we took control of the game and even threatened to extend the lead thanks to the pace of Gabriel Obertan and hold up play of Shola Ameobi as Sunderland grew more and more desperate.

That desperation boiled over into frustration in the last ten minutes as Phil Bardsley rather ferociously tackled Fabricio Coloccini. It was late and was only worthy of a yellow card, but it was his second yellow card of the game and, as we all know, that meant he was off. It didn’t matter anyway as Newcastle saw out the game with relative ease and arguably should have wrapped it up after good work from Ameobi sent Gosling clear on goal only for Mignolet to deny him.

Not to worry. 1-0 will do for me and that’s the way it stayed.

I thought Tim Krul was good today. He made a couple of cracking saves and looked confident when he had to deal with anything. Ryan Taylor did alright again as cover at left-back and will obviously go down in derby day folklore thanks to his goal today. Steven Taylor and Fabricio Coloccini were once again very good together whilst Yohan Cabaye did what he had to do diligently and got stuck in when needed. I wonder if he’ll be the top tackling Premier League midfielder for a second week running?

Gabriel Obertan improved in the second half, as did Joey Barton and Cheik Tiote. Shola was also very good today and caused the Sunderland defence no end of problems with his hold up play and running although he did also manage to be normal Shola on occasion and cause frustration. My wife thought I’d been stabbed when he missed that header!

Also I think Alan Pardew deserves a pat on the back for this one. It’s been a tough week for him and he has been on the end of some criticism from fans, but I think he called the tactics pretty much bang on today. You’re very rarely going to dominate an away match in the Premier League, and our tactics were setup specifically to nullify Sunderland and take advantage on the break. We saw that in the second half.

So bragging right are still ours then I see? No change there then really…

Two games, four points, no goals conceded. Why the drama? Just kidding!

Howay the lads!

Sunderland: Simon Mignolet, Phil Bardsley, Kieran Richardson, Anton Ferdinand, Wes Brown, Lee Cattermole, Seb Larsson, Jack Colback, Ahmed Elmohamady, Stephane Sessegnon, Asamoah Gyan.

Subs: Kieran Westwood, Titus Bramble, Craig Gardner, Connor Wickham, David Vaughan, Louie Laing, Ji Dong Won.

Newcastle: Tim Krul; Danny Simpson, Steven Taylor, Fabricio Coloccini, Ryan Taylor; Gabriel Obertan, Joey Barton, Yohan Cabaye, Cheik Tiote, Jonas Gutierrez; Shola Ameobi.

Subs: Steve Harper, Mike Williamson, Leon Best, Dan Gosling, Demba Ba, Peter Lovenkrands, Sylvain Marveaux.

Referee: Howard Webb.

Attendance: 47,751

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213 thoughts on “Let’s all laugh at Sunderland! Sunderland 0-1 Newcastle.

  1. @ALEX

    @Wonder how much time he will get before the scousers start slagging him off if he fails to score .

    he’s been slagged and questioned for a bit now m8, esp blogs..

    they looked a much better team without Carroll

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  2. @Big Dave

    aye, shame really coz now we have to sign another for 6mill when we just had to pay more to Enrique, saving 6 mill..

    but thats not how to run a club!..lol

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  3. DJG > Simpson needs midfielder to constant come back and cover his ****.
    So what was Jonas doing then ??
    you go on about people giving Raylor abuse and in the next breath you are yet again giving Simpson abuse ❓ So you think Raylor would be a better option at RB than Simo ❓

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  4. Just thought I’d come on to say.

    HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

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  5. @Zoë Vicarage

    I think Tiote will be back to his best next week, He was away partying in Ghana.

    I’d rather play Tiote with two broken ankles then release the Smudger onto the team 😀

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  6. to tell the truth BigDave, I think Raylor is a better fullback then Simmo, he was poor again 2day.

    if QPR had 5mill to offer it would be very tempting for me..

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  7. @Mark i hope so he got caught in possession a couple of times and i was worried they were going to capitalise. No way would smudger come in at all!!!

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  8. Big Dave

    Our weakest areas at the moment are the fullback areas and the final third. No matter who we put out at fullback they need constant help and whoever we put up top needs an Obertan/Benny or Gosling/Vuckic to have a blinder from midfield. This won’t change until we sign people. ❗

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  9. yes!! once again I can look forward to match of the Day.. I hardly watched it last season, even tho we didnt have a bad season. I seem to skip it if we dont win.

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  10. Dig Dave

    ‘you go on about people giving Raylor abuse and in the next breath you are yet again giving Simpson abuse’

    I will concede that Simpson had an okay game today. 😉 😆

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  11. more important than signing ppl, (well just) we must hold this team 2gether now, no more out goings please Fat Mike. We have a chance with this team + 2 more so dont fu** it up..

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  12. @DJG

    Simmo had a good game & Raylor is just like Beckham..

    have you been watching real Madrid or summit m8 😉

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  13. @DJG

    yes, and thats where they end, his freekicks are about 20% of beckhams.

    Raylor has missed loads of freekicks for us over the yrs..

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  14. I see Erik Huseklepp signed for PORTSMOUTH for £1.5m.

    Wasn’t this guy touted as too expensive for us? Christ almighty.

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  15. well off to crack open a cool bottle of girlies Crabbies in the garden.. lovely with ice 😆

    always been a **** drinker lol

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  16. @Toonsie

    No one wants us to lose so we can have a pop.

    Everyone on here is a fan of the team?

    It’s the owner & board some of us dislike …

    Gosling is far better than Obertan … and where’s Vuckic?

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  17. Similarities between Raylor and Beckham are more credible than one might think.

    Both offer very little aside from a decent delivery. Granted, Beckhams is twice as good as Raylor’s, but the main reason Beckham is the star he is is because of his looks.

    Very average player in truth. Had two GOOD years.

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  18. We won at the Stadium of ***** … truce on the players and each other today please …

    Ashley’s always in season though 🙂

    Spend some money you lying Sh!tbag …

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  19. Some people are saying Tiote had a poor game. I thought he fannied about a bit and looked off the pace but he wasn’t so bad. Perhaps he has set himself high standards which he now needs to meet every week?

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  20. r midfield is the key…any1 can come in and will look better..last season we had nothing…when they get fitter we will have some midfield..we got better players not playing..should be great times ahead..

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  21. I’m really looking forward to when Ben Arfa comes back as well, our midfield will be very strong then

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  22. No ‘buts’ today.

    Enjoy the weekend, and reflect on Monday about any misgivings. The result was and is all that matters on derby day Anything else is a bonus.

    Everyone can afford themselves the luxury of enjoying the moment.

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  23. bowburnmag @106

    Well said mate. I thought it was a good team performance today. Lets enjoy the bragging rights again untill next year.

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  24. Ive always said ryan taylor was england class with delivery like a right footed rivelino, pure Genius… 😀 🙄

    wonderful result get a good quality left back, striker and as i keep saying Onuoha to cover centre half and right back and we would be absolutely laughing.

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  25. Funky

    I have been thinking that since last week when he gave those United defenders a really tough time.

    Looks to have all the ingredients.

    Shame

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  26. Two games this season – scored against Man Utd and Chelsea. In West Brom’s team.

    We could have done with that.

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  27. Im pleased they didn’t get to celebrate like they’d won the world cup again by EQUALISING with us in the last minute. :mrgreen: 😆

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  28. Yeah, two games, two goals against the top two teams in the league.

    We wouldn’t pay for it due to him wanting more than his bus fare home and Reading not accepting price of postage for their answer letter.

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  29. We need to add the striker and left back. This league has some ordinary teams in it and I hope Ashley doesn’t see it this way and not splash the cash.
    Defence in the full back areas could be stronger our midfield is a match for anyone outside of manchester but we need to add goals.
    I hope Best and Lovenkrands got the nod over Vuckic and Ameobi on the basis of experience but really Best and Lover need to be punted on by 31 August.
    Haven’t stop smiling and have even promised to take wor lass oot for a drink.
    I must be happy

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  30. Funky

    I doubt we were ever interested. Like most, we probably had doubts about his ability to perform at the top level.

    To be fair, we should probably wait until January to decide whether we missed a trick or not, but the signs are looking quite ominous, I must admit.

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  31. Toby,

    Why do you want rid of a striker who saved our season last year (Best) and the only striker we have whose game suits our midfield (Lovenkrands)?

    We have no strikers apparently and people want rid of those we do have, illogical.

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  32. Not only that, but I think Loverman and Best combine really well and play off each other’s runs nicely. Every time I’ve seen them play together I had the sense that they could gel into a good pair if they had regular game time.

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  33. how did we sign jj hooper? was he from liverpool in the enrique deal? hat-trick on his debut…can’t be bad!

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  34. The article says he impressed on a trial, so he wasn’t with a club it would seem.

    He looks the same as Lee Clark.

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  35. FSOTC
    Honestly if we go in to another premier league game with Best and Lovenkrands starting we have hit rock bottom.They are fifth and sixth choice behind Ameobi, Ba Obertan and Benny

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  36. Scanning around for transfer news now and ran across this on the ESPN/soccernet site:

    16.46 Charlton have reported Newcastle to the Premier League after rejecting their offer for goalkeeper Rob Elliot. The npower League One club turned down a formal bid of £100,000 on Wednesday, but claim Magpies boss Alan Pardew has broken an agreement not to make details of the approach public.

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  37. funny how Torres left a team in decline, to join a better team, now Chelsea are looking like they’re the team that’s are in decline. If i was managing chelsea right now for todays game i’d have anelka behind drogba and torres and play benayoun malouda and mikel in a 3.

    Lampard is sh it now. Harse but true. Even Capello subbed him against the Swiss. Can you imagine how he’d look in our team for instance? oh hang on, he wouldn’t get in it….now!

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  38. Cabaye impresses after so few games Tiote looked abit off but he’ll come good Jonas did good work all over the place a solid game for Krul defence coped well some hard working performances and a victory over the mackems ain the own backyard put an extra quid or to on the lottery

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  39. Frank Lampard is beginning to resemble Kevin Nolan in playing style – only without the goals.

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  40. Just seen west brom1-0 up against chelsea Long scored . Also seen that Van Aanholt is not even on the Chelsea bench and neither is Sturridge . I know it won’t happen but would love to get them both even if it was a season long loan .

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  41. Anybody with Sky 2 we are the main game on football first 8.25. If you’re going out on the lash set your sky plus

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  42. Axel

    How many times do people have to be told that Sturridge is serving a three match suspension. Please keep up to date.

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  43. Well the result was pleasing even though the performance was a bit mixed.
    Krul did everything expected of him.
    I thought Colo wad tremendous today.
    Saylor was fairly good.
    Both fullbacks did ok (but no better)
    Cabaye was dogged and provided steel, but could have been sent off for the studs-up challenge.
    Tiote was average.
    Obertan looked quick but not incisive or particularly creative.
    Gutierrez was probably our most threatening player but still didn’t show much evidence of delivering a crucial final ball, potent dribbling though.
    Shola was average but completely toothless. He cannot be our first or second choice striker.
    Barton was passionate but not exceptional.
    Still to get a result from that match was pleasing, particularly after a first half that saw Sunderland have 63% of the possession.
    We need to start creating far more chances though.

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  44. Listening to 606 one game in and Everton fans are slashing their wrists and criticising the board. Nutters
    They should stick to stealing wheel trims

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  45. Yes, as frustrated as we may be getting with transfers Everton fans must be banging their heads against the wall. Arsenal too!
    Good result today, slightly lucky but yet again showed Sunderland who is boss. According to Sky, they have only managed 1 home win against us in 31 years?!

    Despite the result, the team does not looked finished yet. they seem more resolute than last year, but creatively lacking. The more time goes by, I wonder if a standard striker will be ebough. If we had an out and out 15-20 goal a season striker we could be a pretty good side. Incidentally, I see Mr Long has just made it 2 in 2 since his Premiership arrival. Seems we may have missed out there.

    Come on board, we are nearly there. Don’t miss the boat and think we can achieve with what we have. Get those few neccessary new faces in and this side will make the club a bit of money in the long run!

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  46. the most important thing for NUFC this week was to make sure we did not lose to the scum, all the players deserve credit today for the perfomance and result, now we need more good news, new signings as promised.We have started the season better than expected, let’s hope FCB builds on what we have.

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  47. Still a tad concerned that we still do not seem to have a dedicated winger that can actually cross with consistency. If we get an injury to Guti or Obertan, the midfield balance will not be right. I think we will be fine this season, but until the balance is good across the whole team I can’t see us breaking the top 8.

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  48. Not moaning by the way, just observing where we can improve. Delighted with our start to the season, better than we could have hoped for and vitally important for the sake of the dressing room and fans’confidence alike. 😀

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  49. Yes I know mate. However if we look at this objectively, we were outplayed for long periods and won thanks to a rare if not wonderful free kick. In the end, only the result matters, but it could have been so easily different and then people would be on this forum demanding heads at the club to be rolling 😉 There is a decent foundation inplace now upon which to really push this side on and make it an outside bet for Europe once more. Just be a shame to miss out on building on such a great start.

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  50. Shamrock I just think that with a couple of quality additions we’ll be a lot safer and a lot better, with a better chance of finishing in the top half

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  51. This team is desperately dependent on one player – a creative talent who last played for them almost a year ago.

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  52. Agreed Big Dave. No need to panic at the moment, we have over a week until the window closes. MA -Pardew is doing his bit with the boys on the pitch, now it’s your turn to deliver on the negotiation tables and give us the tools we need to push on! H’way Toon!

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  53. Free Scoring – great name! Got to disagree with you though. We would all love to see Benny firing on all cylanders back in the side, but the team cannot be dependant on a player does not play!

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  54. Right I am a way out. Sky plus set.
    Stuffed the mackems and made a few quid of Joey’s horse. Didn’t see Batty tipping that one up haha.
    One happy man.
    See you tomorrow boys

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