· 18 August 2025, 13:30
**Newcastle United's travelling supporters were in fine voice down at Villa Park on Saturday and were, much like the team, the dominant force for most of the game.**
Despite all of the frustrations of the summer, the Toon Army got behind their team and roared them on for 90 minutes.
After the full-time whistle blew, however, the fans let their feelings about Alexander Isak's situation be known, and as players were out on the pitch doing interviews with various media companies, the Newcastle fans made their voices heard, chanting "One greedy b\*\*\*\*\*\*" for the world to hear.
Eddie Howe was [asked about the chants after the game](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-15008071/Eddie-Howe-gives-update-Alexander-Isaks-future-amid-Liverpool-transfer-saga-Newcastle-boss-breaks-silence-fan-chants-calling-striker-greedy-b-d.html), and he said he agreed that the fans were brilliant throughout the game, and if they wanted to make their statement after the match, they were well within their rights to do so. Like most people, Howe was grateful for how the supporters went about things - saving the protests for after the game.
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Sky Sports deliberately edited a clip to make Newcastle United fans look toxic
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However, Sky Sports took that chant and edited it into a video with the fans seemingly chanting their Isak protests while the players were out there applauding the fans, which simply did not happen.
The clip from the Sky Sports social media accounts on Instagram and TikTok was shared by several Newcastle fans on X, showing the blatant media manipulation by Sky Sports.
Newcastle fans, on the whole, already feel like there's an agenda against the club by the mainstream media, and for Sky Sports to splice in footage of Eddie Howe and his players applauding the fans as they're making their point is so disingenuous it's actually disgusting.
Will we get an explanation or an apology? Unlikely
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Sky's North East reporter, Keith Downie, as well as Sky Sports News host and Newcastle fan, Pete Graves, have been tagged in a couple of posts on X demanding answers, but at the end of the day, the decision to do that has nothing to do with them.
Hopefully, they will ask the questions behind the scenes, but as for whether we get any explanation as to why they decided to deliberately slander thousands of loyal fans, we very much doubt it.
It's absolutely shocking behaviour by Sky Sports, and didn't need to be done at all. The footage of the fans' chanting would have made the point alone; there was no need to make it look so toxic.