Opinion

It ended West Ham 3 Newcastle 1.

A day for Newcastle United fans to forget, or at least try to.

The performance every bit as bad as the result suggests.

As somebody once said, more than a few times, we all now need to dust worselves doon and go again.

To get the positivity flowing again, here are my reasons to be cheerful for Newcastle United fans, after that West Ham 3 Newcastle 1 match:

The final whistle has gone and we don’t have to watch another second of this woeful NUFC performance

After watching that, plenty of Newcastle United members deciding to not bother with the upcoming ballots for home matches, thus increasing my chance of getting tickets.

This performance wasn’t against Sunderland.

If I had done a deal with the devil and Newcastle had to lose one of their last four matches, I would definitely have chosen this one over Benfica in the Champions League and Spurs in the League Cup, plus also marginally better losing this one than Fulham.

Newcastle have won five of their last seven matches.

The reason why this kind of match hurts so much, is because it is...