Obviously, it's sometimes nice to watch an exciting, evenly-matched game of football on telly on a Sunday afternoon, but it's also entertaining to watch a comprehensive thrashing of an unbelievably bad team, once in a while. Honestly, how Sheffield Utd managed to be so hopeless is beyond me. Coming as I do from a proud Sheffield family of Wednesday fans, I should be jeering delightedly at the red-and-white section of the city, but I'm not really that excited by it.
Besides, it's the kind of game that gets people reaching for the history books, and the first stat that comes to anyone's mind is "Newcastle's best result since they beat Sheffield Wednesday 8-0 in 1999." I prefer "Joint second best league result in history for Newcastle, after a 13-0 win over Newport County in 1946" or "the first time the Blades have conceded eight goals in a league game since their 10-3 defeat by Middlesbrough in November 1933", as provided by the BBC website. It must be nice to be a contributing factor to that kind of statistic.
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