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Discussion about another Newcastle defeat!!

Enough of this enlightening, positive political banter. Who cares about socio-political victories whose effects will be heard and felt throughout the world for years to come? What's the USE in discussing recent events that our grandparents wouldn't have even DREAMED of only 30 years ago, but we're lucky enough to see and experience them in our relative youth??? Newcastle lost! Let's talk about that!!!

Well, okay.

Newcastle technically lost, but really, you could say that Claudio Cacapa lost. If he had not been on the pitch, if the Magpies fielded ten men to Fulham's eleven, we honestly, cross my heart, would have won that match. We outplayed them. We outpassed them. We outran them. We did everything right, except A) only scored once - should have had more and B) oh, those two silly little missteps from Cacapa, costing him and his teammates the GAME.

If anyone has forgotten, it was Claudio Cacapa who was absolutely, take-no-prisoners-style SMOKED last season by Benjani of Portsmouth, and whose smoking led to THREE goals in the first ELEVEN minutes of the match. We ended up losing that one 4-1, but more importantly, Big Fat Sam took Cacapa off the pitch after a measly 18 minutes, and Cacapa's confidence was forever GONE after that day. He's never looked a proper player after that, certainly not prepared or talented enough for the premiership.

So while we DID only score one goal, I am certain that had Steven Taylor been fit for this match, we would have EASILY won. The problem is, he wasn't - and we can't expect him to be fit for every match. So you've either got Cacapa, who is obvious garbage, or Seb Bassong, who's a FANTASTIC player, but has virtually no top-flight experience at Central Defender. I know the whole hindsight being 20/20 thing, but as soon as I saw Cacapa's name in that line up I said "Where's Bassong?" and that's the truth.

Anyway, Newcastle are back in the relegation zone, arguably where they belong. We're a pisser of a club, a club nobody wants to buy, for good reason, a club who's name now goes hand in hand with hilarity of the highest order. The only prospective buyers for Newcastle are American, and that's simply because A) they probably don't know what they're getting into and B) the dollar is quite strong now compared to a few months ago, and as a business decision, it's a steal. We are being reduced to WARES, and we're not even talking Nordstrom wares - we're talking Burlington Coat Factory. Newcastle are that single remaining DKNY Jacket that's gone from Showroom to department store to outlet mall to liquidation sale bin to Burlington Coat Factory, and even NOW, nobody will touch this accoutrement. It started its life as a proud, respectable $249.99 list, and now soccer moms won't even touch it for a limp $39.99. Such is Newcastle.