I don't know if anyone has mentioned it but apparently this is the first time NUFC has had a negative goal difference in the Premier League since the 80th minute of the Sheffield Wednesday match on 13th September 1993.
Out of curiosity, in that game, Alex Mathie (later manager of the club that Steve Watson currently manages) put us level and Malcolm Allen put us up to plus 1.
26 years, 2 months and 3 days later, we finally went negative again.
We are now at -2, being the worst since 18th August 1993 when Mick Harford scored his only goal for Coventry.
The Ashley years, nearly 13 of them, have given us a goal difference of -148 in the Premier League. Under him our Premier League GD has never been positive since being beaten 3-0 at home on 24th November 2007 by Liverpool who, at the time, were under the management of certain Spaniard (not Russell Crowe in Gladiator).
Before Ashley's arrival, our average Premier League finish was 7th-8th. Since, it has been 13th.
On that basis, Including relegations and Premier League prize money, Ashley has cost himself around £180-200 million. If only he had invested half of that in the playing stock of the club, he would have been far better off!