Apparently, Newcastle fans don’t like it when other fans talk about how awful their own club is.
During Arsenal’s 3-0 defeat to Manchester City on Thursday night, Daily Cannon’s Twitter account was, as is the norm, venting its frustration on the social media platform.
One of our tweets arguing that Arsenal’s attack is actually alright but saying how tough it is to be a Gooner these days got retweeted by a Newcastle account.
It's so frustrating because we have the chances and it's good going forward. Seriously, it's tough to be a gooner.
— Daily Cannon (@DailyCannon) March 1, 2018
It turns out, Newcastle fans don’t like fans of clubs that have generally done better than theirs over the course of their history to complain about the current state of their team and manager.
https://twitter.com/MsiDouglas/status/969308613851385856
Apparently, ‘perspective’ and ‘relativity’ aren’t things that Newcastle fans understand.
For example, as we pointed out, there are some clubs that have never won a trophy, which makes them seem out of line for complaining that they haven’t lifted one since 1955.
We haven’t won a domestic trophy since 1955 mate…..tough being a Gooner?
Give yourself a shake man!— Tom Pitt (@Toontom68) March 1, 2018
— Toon Army Dallas (@toonarmydallas) March 1, 2018
— Toon Army Dallas (@toonarmydallas) March 1, 2018
My club are bottom of the championship and staring at consecutive relegations. We are skint, with probable administration looming if we don’t find a new owner. We also have a £70k a week player not mentally prepared to play. You’ve absolutely no idea what tough is 😂😂
— Tone (@hudson81188) March 1, 2018
Good fucking grief. Newcastle haven’t won a domestic trophy in my lifetime and I’m 55 years old. 52,000 still turn up every week.
— Musky1962 #FBPE #Stopthemadness (@PhilipLynn4) March 1, 2018
My heart bleeds
— Liam Dabbs (@ldabbs89) March 1, 2018
Must be tough being an arsenal fan who see’s his club playing in Europe every season 🤔🤔🤔🤔
— James Organ (@organ_james) March 1, 2018
My heart bleeds..Someone fetch a violin…
— Lawton (@LawtonCS14) March 1, 2018
— Steven⚽️⚫️⚪️⚫️⚪️ (@SteveToon09) March 1, 2018
Arsenal fans are pathetic no wonder everyone laughs at you’s you’ve won things other teams will never win in their existence, stop crying about one or two bad season. we’ve been relegated 2 lately and is in another relegation battle but we don’t whinge and complain.
— James Griffiths (@JamesOnTheMIC2) March 1, 2018
A trophy last season – yep, must be grim being a gooner. Try being a toon fan…we’d chop off our hands for that. #nufc
— Trevor Cairns (@NI_trev) March 1, 2018
No it’s not fkn tough being a gooner. You’re frustrated because of the standards you’ve set in recent years. I get that …But! FK me man, what would your REAL attendance be if you’d won fk all and been relegated twice in last 10 yrs. You’ve barely managed more than SAFC fans
— derek bird (@derekbird3) March 1, 2018
Man up & try supporting your team instead of moaning,my heart bleeds
— CT62 (@Geordieblinder) March 1, 2018
No it’s not you win trophies all the time #dramaqueens
— The Honest Johns (@TheHonestJohns) March 1, 2018
Get over yourselves.
— Geo(R)ge 5️⃣0️⃣ (@hcafcgeorge) March 1, 2018
Try supporting a side that hasn’t won anything in 60 years, you self-important twats. https://t.co/fh1NZpTI3H
— Sam GC (@Funguslover) March 1, 2018
Such woe. Such anguish https://t.co/2w2yBXX14d
— D (@davvyk) March 2, 2018
Imagine being pissed that you finish above 5th in the Prem every year, in europe every year and win a trophy more or less every year https://t.co/tLIfyIPEj1
— Tom (@Tommy_Jackson9) March 2, 2018
You have never had to watch Claudio Cacapa, Andy Faye or Emmanuel Riviere. #NUFC https://t.co/5uJmH6GAHh
— Kieran Reynolds (@KJR90) March 1, 2018
But they call #nufc fans deluded. 🙄 https://t.co/M53cveYAfx
— Toon Army San Diego (@ToonArmySD2) March 1, 2018
Fair enough, the Magpies are facing relegation from the Premier League – again. They’re two points off Swansea in 18th and nine off West Brom at the bottom. But how miserable you feel over the state of your own club isn’t a competition. It’s all relative.
Newcastle haven’t spent £108m on two forwards over the last half-a-season. They don’t have a manager, who was once one of the best in the sport, looking more and more out of touch every game. And they don’t have the right to get snippy just because a fan of another club had to audacity to complain.