02/03 - Could we have won the league?

[NUFC06]

Before Robsons sacking, the season before was pretty bad. We finished 5th, when the league is as it is now, 4 good teams at the top, then 10 mediocre teams. Somehow we won the mediocre league and came 5th. Robson should have gone in the summer, and i wonder if we would have installed a decent manager at that point, rather than the tragedy which would be Souness 3months later.

 

   1  Manchester United                38  /   83

   2  Arsenal                                 38   /   78

   3  Newcastle United                 38   /   69

 

RUN-IN:

Sat 11 May West Brom 2-2 Newcastle

Sat 04 May Newcastle 1-0  Birmingham 

Sat 26 Apr Sunderland 0-1 Newcastle

Mon 21 Apr Newcastle 1-1 Aston Villa

Sat 19 Apr Fulham 2-1 Newcastle

Sat 12 Apr Newcastle 2-6 Man United

Sun 06 Apr Everton 2-1 Newcastle

Sat 22 Mar Newcastle 5-1 Blackburn  

Sat 15 Mar Charlton 0-2 Newcastle 

Wed 05 Mar Middlesbrough 1-0 Newcastle

Sat 01 Mar Newcastle 2-1 Chelsea

Sat 22 Feb Leeds 0-3 Newcastle

Sun 09 Feb Newcastle 1-1 Arsenal

Wed 29 Jan Tottenham 0-1 Newcastle

 

Yep, looking at that, it was the Everton away match, where Robert hit that screamer from the left wing, and Gravsen tried to disable Bernard that changed things.

 

 

I meant to quote this post btw

 

The Man Utd game broke the players's believe that they could won the tittle

I remember that 4 days before Man Utd played us they played Real Madrid in the Champions league

I was hoping that they might be a little tired but i was wrong