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Take City out and Newcastle finish fourth in 2011/12, on 65 points, but that year fourth wasn’t a Champions League place. Twice they climb three places without gaining a point, and in 2015/16 they still go down.
Newcastle United had seven of the nine seasons in the Premier League; 2009/10 and 2016/17 were outside it. Against Manchester City they drew once and lost 13 times in 14 league games, so taking City out takes almost nothing off them: one point, in April 2016.
What moves Newcastle is the table around them. In five seasons they climb one place, City’s. In 2010/11 and 2012/13 they climb three, two beyond it. And in 2011/12 the one place is the one that matters most: fifth becomes fourth.
2011/12
Beaten 3–1 away in November and 2–0 at home in May, Newcastle lose no points. The 2–0 on 6 May drew 52,389, the biggest Premier League crowd at St James’ Park. Their 65 points are fourth of 19, four clear of fifth.
But that season fourth was not a Champions League place. Chelsea took one as holders, and it came out of fourth. Newcastle go into the Europa League either way, the same competition that paid them €6.0m in 2012/13. It is on the Ledger all the same, with its own label: fourth, but not a Champions League place that year. Top-four finishes across the nine seasons: none for real, one without City.
2012/13
Beaten 3–1 at home in December and 4–0 away in March, Newcastle keep their 41 points and go from 16th to 13th of 19. Four clubs finish on 41: Stoke, Villa, Newcastle and Norwich, in that order. Newcastle got there by losing twice to City. Norwich got there by falling three places, the biggest drop in the table.
Two seasons earlier, in 2010/11, they had done the same from 12th: beaten twice by City, 46 points unchanged, ninth of 19.
2015/16
The one point Newcastle took off City in nine seasons was the 1–1 at home on 19 April 2016, Agüero’s 100th Premier League goal. It goes. 37 becomes 36, and 18th becomes 17th of 19: a relegation place in a 19-club table, three points from safety. Villa, Norwich and Newcastle each lose the point they took off City, and all three go down anyway.
Newcastle and City did no transfer business in the nine seasons: no player sold to City, none bought, no loans. There is no City money here to take away.
The one fate the table touches moves no money either. Newcastle play in the Europa League after 2011/12 with City or without, and UEFA paid them €6.0m for it.
Positions are real of 20 and rebuilt of 19; see How it works.