**Newcastle United were so poor against West Ham on Sunday that Gary Neville, who has no connection to Newcastle at all, got angry watching them.**
When someone who supports an entirely different team watches you and gets pissed off at how bad you've been, then you really need to take a long, hard look at what went wrong.
We are sure there wasn't a single Newcastle supporter who watched that shower of poop on Sunday who didn't get angry, but when Manchester United mouthpiece Gary Neville is getting annoyed, it must have been bad.
Eddie Howe will no doubt have held an inquest on Monday at Benton and will be demanding an improved performance tomorrow night, but it's something that should never have happened in the first place.
Seething!
Gary Neville says the players let Eddie Howe down on Sunday
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Gary Neville was speaking on NBC Sports (via [The Chronicle](https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/gary-neville-makes-worrying-newcastle-32801899)) and went on quite the rant, and we agree with pretty much everything he said.
> "They (Newcastle) made me really angry. In the last 20 minutes of the first half and certainly the second half, they did not have a shot for a long time in the game."I thought they really let the manager down. Eddie Howe is a fantastic manager who has a great record.
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> "They have a lot of work to do. It is almost like Eddie has to remind them that they have to work hard and basically be at an intense level every week to be able to win Premier League matches."
Wednesday's match has become such a massively important game in our season
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We will add a caveat to that, though, and that's that Eddie Howe doesn't get away with this blame-free. He picked the team, he did the team talk, he made all of those substitutions and messed with the formation that saw Sandro Tonali playing at right-back.
It took everybody to mess things up that much; nobody gets away with it. Hell, we'll even blame Yoane Wissa and Tino Livramento to make ourselves feel better, and they were nowhere near it.
The lads simply must use this as fuel now to ensure they put in the performance of a lifetime against Athletic Bilbao on Wednesday night, just as a starter to put things right, but of course, it's in the Premier League that we need to see the change.