The Newcastle United page you are currently visiting has been packed with debate over Eddie Howe’s future and the Magpies’ perceived failings this season.
Too reliant on Bruno Guimaraes? Missing Alexander Isak? Not getting enough from new strikers? The list of reasons and frustrations is abundant.
This weekend Howe's side go to Arsenal having lost eight of their past 11 Premier League matches. In that timeframe – since late January – no side has lost more in the Premier League.
It is an ugly statistic but does it hide the fine margins Howe is paying so dearly for?
In their past nine Premier League matches Newcastle have either been won (three) or lost (six) by exactly one goal.
In top-flight history, there have only been three occasions a team had 10 or more successive games settled by exactly one goal – Everton between October and December 1911 (10), West Ham between December 1964 and February 1965 (10) and Southampton in March and April 1992 (12).
So while Newcastle are struggling, they are coming down on the wrong side of tight fixtures.
Reason for hope maybe, within the sea of questions.
