Interesting to read through these BBC Sport ‘neutrals’ comments, following on from Newcastle United losing 4-1 to Coventry City.
A 4-1 victory for the home side at the CBS Arena.
A disastrous start to the match as Lukas Hornicek gifted Coventry City a penalty inside four minutes.
Despite then Newcastle United dominating possession, corners, shots and touches in the opposition penalty area, repeated failures at both ends of the pitch brought about the heavy defeat.
Always interesting to hear the neutral perspectives, as well as the perspectives of fans of Coventry, Newcastle United and…Sunderland.
The BBC Sport readers comments from neutrals…
‘Newcastle would have gone 4th with a win, this shows how poor the Premier League is.’
‘I’m a big Newcastle Tooner fan and have to say, Coventry deserved it hands down!’
‘Well done Coventry from LUFC all we need now is to get rid of the cheats !! or are these so called elites untouchable !’
‘So that’s Newcastle, Tottenham and Man City for relegation then!!!’
‘I’ll be happy with Tottenham and Man City, but I’m sure there’s a few other clubs with dodgy PSR dealings as well as Man City. Hope the telescope lands on a few other cheats.’
‘Every team will want to play Newcastle on a Monday night. Coventry have followed Leeds in dishing out a Monday night 4-1drubbing. The three promoted sides are showing real resilience. Good performance by Coventry tonight and some calamitous, schoolboy defending from Newcastle.’
‘Coventry, you were brilliant.’
‘As a Tigers fan, congratulations to our promoted colleague. All three of us have started well.’
‘It’s the Sunderland blueprint.’
‘Well done Sky Blues from Hammers fan.’
‘Err reality check Coventry have not started well’
‘Leicester fan here. 4-1 against Newcastle… what a result! Pains me to say it, but Coventry really are back and fair play to them. After 15 years of utter turmoil with ownership and homelessness, to see you come through the other side like this is unbelievable. Your fans genuinely deserve every bit of it. Proper club. Respect.’
‘Can’t understand why BDB wasn’t brought on to replace Botman … he’s become a complete liability. His goal was excellent but it was the only good touch he had throughout.’
‘Get Burn & Schar in and have 3 in midfield not two, simples.’
‘Toon Tonked should be the headline.’
‘Who is this John Anderson on Radio Newcastle? With ten minutes to go ‘ A goal is coming for Newcastle, Coventry are dead on their feet’. How embarrassing! These pundits make you laugh.’
‘Deluded Mugpie.’
‘I can’t wait to watch the muckems gan doon this season. Get the popcorn.’
‘You will be joining us newcastle are the worst team in the prem how you have 8 points is a mystery’
‘He played a blinder for the Geordies in an 8-1 defeat at West Ham.’
‘Congratulations Frank & the Sky Blues.
Great to see you shrug off your disappointing start to the season and put in a convincing performance.
Neutral here, but hate to see the newly promoted teams losing confidence.’
‘(Sunderland fan) Proper football club 4 Saudis 1. Lovely to see. Great to have you back, Coventry.’
‘Embaressing. Newcastle players need to sort themselves out. The defence is shambolic. The midfield so passive. The team have lost their aggressive pressing play. Players too slow to read the game and react. Passing and attacking play is so predictable. Not one ppayer taking the ball on the turn to create some space cause defenders trouble. Worst i’ve seen in a while. It cant continue.’
‘Your spot on , but as long as Linton gets picked ,IT WILL.’
‘Your comments are spot on. All that possession and no end result.None of the new intake played well and Barnes Wissa Willock and Hall played as though it was a practice match. Coventry wanted it more than Newcastle when a challenge was called for and deserved the points.’
‘Hall got hailed for international performances the. Believes the hype, complacency get involved oh it only Coventry.’
‘Great to see Frank Lampard doing a brilliant job following the hurtful & disrespectful stick he’s received on here from team Keyboard Warriors. Good on him, he’s an intelligent & articulate young manager who I think will do well.’
‘Rudoni looking at home in the Prem and Thomas is getting better and better. Team under the cosh for periods but kept battling and showed that we have quality as well as heart.’
‘As a Newcastle supporter please can PIF sell the club. We all know you don’t want us and to be frank we don’t want you, the decisions over the last two years have been amateurish and now coming back to bite you. Manager out of his depth with kids and two central defenders who can’t defend. Jaissle will be out by Christmas’
‘(Sunderland fan) Should consider getting Moyes in to prevent us getting relegated at this point.’
‘Ahh the muckems are out tonight I see. I’d keep your head down kid. You’re 17th.’
‘Surprised Newcastle managed a goal – they are toothless. Dominated possession but were ponderous, lacked penetration, anyone to go past a defender, and don’t have a clinical finisher. Too many contributed very little. It’s going to be a difficult watch this season. Coventry showed how to attack quickly and put the ball in the net every time. Well done Coventry.’
‘Ta but we were a bit fortunate at times too !’
‘(Spurs fan) We will be flying higher than Coventry after beating them next Monday night, doing what Newcastle failed miserably to do.’