An own goal, hard to see us coming back and winning this

Lacazette hattrick?

Keep the faith, what choice do we have.

One can only hope.

How on earth is that not a free kick for Martinelli? One Newcastle player might have gotten the ball first, but the other one who crashed into him sure as hell didn't

From the moment White was carded after 8 minutes we werent going to get anything at all from this ref tonight. Probably no real big game changers but every 50/50.....and even just awful decisions like a clear dive from Almiron will all be in Newcastle's favour tonight

The foul throw that lead to the goal, again I'm sure any ex ref can make a case for it being a foul throw but its another time where I feel we're refereed to the full force of the law where plenty others aren't.

Before anyone starts, I'm not blaming the ref for us losing, we simply haven't been good enough and across the game Newcastle deserve to be beating us

Finishing the season with 3 away games is also just rank bad luck. Even without the Tottenham game it would have been two.

There is no way the ref is responsible for our position in this game. We've been second best all evening and blaming the officiating is pointless.

We’ve got Everton at home next weekend.

No one is blaming him. Just pointing out he's been quite biased to the home side with a lot of the small decisions. Newcastle have committed double the number of fouls we have but they are card free and we've taken 2. They are being allowed to play to a higher threshold.

Remember when Xhaka was yellow carded recently and the ref pointed to 3 fouls across the pitch and it was Xhaka's first foul? We are reffed differently. Just to reiterate we're losing this game because newcastle have generally been better than us, they look more threatening going forward and we've looked tired and weak.