You have to laugh at quite amazing Arsenal and Chelsea reporting – Now it is Nottingham Forest as well | OneFootball

What have Chelsea, Arsenal and Nottingham Forest got in common?

They are all in the top five of the Premier League?

It’s good but it’s not right. It is true but not what I was thinking of.

They are all on the same number of points (19) now in the Premier League?

That is also good but it’s not right. Also true but not what I was thinking of.

I was thinking something relating to Newcastle United.

Chelsea, Arsenal and Nottingham Forest all above NUFC in the Premier League currently?

That is also very good but it’s not right. That is the reality but not what I was thinking of.

If you are saying Newcastle United have defeated all three of these in the last two weeks, then you are getting closer to what I am getting at.

Let me explain.

Ahead of Sunday at the City Ground, pretty much every single media piece I read or heard, was raving about how great Nottingham Forest have been this season.

How Forest had only lost once all season to Fulham (conveniently ‘forgetting’ that Newcastle had already won at the City Ground in the League Cup), how they were on a brilliant run of three straight wins, third in the table and could they stay there as they did back in 1994/95, what a job Nuno was doing, only team Liverpool have lost to AND at Anfield, what a defence – only conceded seven PL goals and only once conceded more than a single goal, two at Brighton in a 2-2 draw, drawn away at Chelsea and so on.

Pretty much every single pundit predicting a Forest win, certainly none of them saying Newcastle would win.

Newcastle United dominated Nottingham Forest throughout the match, won 3-1.

The media afterwards?

Nottingham Forest had been rubbish.

How it was always going to happen eventually, one game finally they would fall below their standards shown this season.

Minimal praise for the fact that it was because Newcastle had been so good, why Forest hardly had a kick.

Going further back, exactly the same with Arsenal.

All the pundits saying they would win at St James’ Park.

Then when Newcastle won?

Yes, Arsenal had been rubbish.

Rather than Newcastle United not allowing them to play and performing so well for the deserved victory, exactly the same as 12 months earlier.

The Chelsea cup match was similar.

Even though they had a team costing almost half a billion, costing almost twice as much as Newcastle’s starting eleven that night, it was more about Chelsea’s failings for the result, not how good Eddie Howe and his players had been!

Hopefully Newcastle United and their fans will have the last laugh when it comes to this collective ongoing disrespect…