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There is always a tendency to view your own team with a more critical eye. It's incredibly hard to judge a game objectively as a fan (hence forums!). I probably always see it the other way in that I might see more in my own team's performance than perhaps was evident. That said, having heard...

The stats was aimed at someone suggesting a very different game to how I saw it. Perhaps even you'd concede, it was far from men against boys?

You watched a different game to me. Agree that we bossed the first 15 mins or so, but Newcastle's best spell for the entire game was for the final 25mins of the first half. There wasn't an onslaught 2nd half, and we created some good chances early on and from about 60mins started to get more of...

Football isn't that simple. You cannot play a fast tempo game for 90mins. Newcastle couldn't either. I thought we mixed it up fairly well. There has to be a point where the back four can give those in front a breather, allow them to get back into position, keep your shape 'managing the game' as...