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Nobby Solano has paid tribute to Toon captain Fabricio Coloccini for steering Newcastle United through choppy waters. It is believed that the United skipper draped a protective bubble over some of the club’s younger players during the winless first eight games of the Premier League season, and urged them to continue fighting for the black and white cause. The Argentinian star is thought to have told players not to worry about the pressure and criticism coming from outside of the four walls at St James’ Park, and focus on playing their natural game. Coloccini has also taken Ayoze Perez under his wing and accompanied him to reserve-team games and on other social outings since he arrived from Tenerife. Fast forward one month and United have won five games and are sitting in eighth place in the Premier League. Coloccini’s fine form has been a key part of the transformation in recent weeks, and after he fittingly grabbed the game-sealing goal to extend the run to five victories, every single outfield player mobbed the South American in front of the Toon Army. Solano gave an insight into Coloccini’s work as skipper in the dressing room. He told the Chronicle: “I know Colo very well and he does so much behind the scenes. “He works with the young players very well and makes them get used to life in Newcastle, because he’s been there himself. “He’s a great, great captain to have in your locker room. “Colo is a guy who gives you everything. “He is the first to arrive at the training ground every morning and he’s the last to leave. “He’s 100% professional and always wants to do well.” Fabricio Coloccini celebrates scoring for Newcastle United against West Bromwich Albion at the Hawthorns Fabricio Coloccini celebrates scoring for Newcastle United against West Bromwich Albion at the Hawthorns Coloccini suffered a spate of indifferent form when he first arrived at Newcastle from Deportivo la Coruna in 2008. The defender endured relegation but found the Championship as the ideal platform to steady himself and returned a stronger player. Solano said: “Colo has the experience to go out and show the lads the way, he leads the way. “He’s doing quite well and if he keeps it up he could be a candidate for player of the season at Newcastle. “I am so pleased for him. “He has come through some tough periods at the club and he has been questioned. “He gets stronger and he comes through adversity. “Remember he stayed at the club after relegation and he’s still here now. “It was great to see him get the goal. “It was a significant moment in the season and I am so glad he got it.”

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2832202/Roy-Keane-Garda-investigation-allegedly-assaulting-man-outside-Ireland-s-team-hotel.html

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That post is a beauty. Hypocritical as owt. Indeed mate! NUFC fans owe Pardew an apology for complaining about him after we beat Leicester and Spurs in the league after 9 months of utter shite but the Spurs fans have every right to complain about their new manager because they aren't in the top 4!

What a wanker! HTTP://WWW.STANDARD.CO.UK/SPORT/PATRICK-BARCLAY-MESSAGE-TO-NEWCASTLE-SUPPORTERS--ITS-TIME-TO-SAY-SORRY-TO-ALAN-PARDEW-9827653.HTML Patrick Barclay: Message to Newcastle supporters - it's time to say sorry to Alan Pardew PATRICK BARCLAY Published: 30 October 2014 Updated: 09:54, 30 October 2014 Maybe it is true that you can’t fool the public. But the public can certainly make fools of themselves. Take, for example, the Newcastle fans who not only wanted Alan Pardew sacked as manager but took to arriving at matches with placards saying so. Many such messages were held aloft during the defeat at Stoke a month ago. Yet even then, with Newcastle seeking their first Premier League win, there had been signs of life: a 10-man victory at Crystal Palace in the Capital One Cup; a two-goal comeback to earn a point at home to Hull; a general refusal to succumb to derision. Now look at them. Two wins and a draw in the League have made Pardew a strong candidate for Barclays’ Manager Of The Month and last night his men — with a few bright boys thrown in — brought off an even more impressive cup triumph at Manchester City, earning a visit to Tottenham in the quarter-finals. So will the “Sorry Alan” placards be flourished on Saturday, when Liverpool arrive at St James’ Park? I’d like to think so. Pardew may have his flaws — the shoving of a linesman in 2012 was not pretty, and nor was the gentle nutting of Hull’s David Meyler eight months ago — but he can manage a football team and Newcastle owner Mike Ashley deserves credit for keeping him in charge. Another reason for the fans to cheer up is the emergence of youngsters. It’s always refreshing, and the dart of pace that enabled 18-year-old Rolando Aarons to score early at the Etihad suggested he may have more in common with Raheem Sterling than a Jamaican birthplace. Adam Armstrong, 17, also started, while the 22-year-old Sammy Ameobi will be keen to return to White Hart Lane, where he scored his first Premier League goal on Sunday. Newcastle’s summer buys were interesting too — all 25 or under. So it’s a squad built to last. With admirably durable manager. http://www.standard.co.uk/sport/football/patrick-barclay-arsenal-should-be-worried-by-the-tensions-at-white-hart-lane-not-tottenham-9853013.html Patrick Barclay: Arsenal should be worried by the tensions at White Hart Lane, not Tottenham PATRICK BARCLAY Published: 11 November 2014 Updated: 12:53, 11 November 2014 Arsenal are the ones who should be worried about the latest tensions at White Hart Lane, not Tottenham. For there was a time when to be only three points behind their lofty rivals was cause for satisfaction at the Lane. Not now. TOTTENHAM IN CRISIS: The fans are entitled to believe their club should be where West Ham are, or even taking the role of Mauricio Pochettino’s old club Southampton, inspiring leaders of a pack threatening the status of under-achievers such as Arsenal, at least temporarily, have become. Instead, Spurs have themselves joined the light punchers. This should have been a good season for them. The players acquired with the Gareth Bale money should have bedded in - and bought into the methods of a promising new manager. Yet they have lost four of their last five home matches and Emmanuel Adebayor is moaning about the crowd, who this morning hit back in the form of Martin Cloake, a board member for the Tottenham Supporters’ Trust whose name belies an admirable candour.

Yeah so I hear!

Wigan home too when he equalised in the last minute!

“I’m very happy to have scored,” said the 32-year-old. “We have had some bad moments, but it’s important that we enjoy these times. “I enjoyed celebrating with my team-mates and in front of the fans and, more importantly, getting the win for the team. “It has been a long time since I scored a goal – too long. I can’t even remember when it was, and it was nice to put that right. But I just try to help the team and want to keep us going on this run. “It has been a very good week for the team and a very good week Jonas too. “I am going to see him now, to spend a few days with him and give him all the messages of support from his team-mates, the staff, the fans and the club. It will be nice to see him. “The goal was for him. It has been a great week for everyone.”

Well done to our main man!

No chance he'll get it! We scraped a point at Swansea, scraped a win vs Leicester and put a decent 2nd half in at Spurs after a shambolic 1st half to win. West Ham won all their games including a win against the champions and a London derby!

Arsenal did me for £255 (cash out option not available on PP) and seem to have cost many others a fortune too!

What the f*** was that. Ha ha! Have you not seen his other videos?!

That numpty is back! :lol: https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=MjgDd5SPnvw

What a surprise!

Absolutely majestic today - well played Colo!

Tabled 'a financial offer' of some sort to Rangers - SSN

The commentator (not ex-Mackem 'Desperate Don'!) has had a dig at him for his apparent form when he played for us - tit!

Quality yesterday albeit I had £2 on him to score 1st at 50/1!

He came across really well!

Savage :-) https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1544292252455817&id=1425550067663370

http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/sport/football/just-mike-ashley-putting-much-7905034 Mike Ashley’s latest Rangers power play is a clear and present attempt to further his influence at Ibrox. Through his MASH holdings company, Ashley has called for an emergency general meeting and the removal of chief executive Graham Wallace and director Phillip Nash – something that the current board says it will recommend that shareholders reject. But Ashley is now the second biggest shareholder at Rangers, and it seems that he is testing the water around the embattled Ibrox club. United fans fed up of Ashley’s approach to Newcastle have long hoped that his interest north of the border will be the thing that takes him away from the North East. For their part, Newcastle United continue to stand by the furious statement they made last month in which Ashley re-asserted his control over the Magpies. He said he would not sell until 2016. Why has Mike Ashley done this? BBC Scotland correspondent Roddy Forsyth called it a “tactical strike” on Rangers from Ashley and it does look like another power play by Ashley, who has been very busy recently. He bought shares in Tesco and Debenhams and upped his stake in the Ibrox club to 9% recently, making him the second biggest shareholder in the club. Although Ashley is by no means guaranteed to get his way – the Rangers board say that they will recommend that shareholders reject the call from MASH – he is flexing his muscles again. If he can push this through, Ashley would presumably then look to get someone more sympathetic to his own aims on the day-to-day board. As for a timescale on when Ashley will make a final push for Rangers, it seems to be coming sooner rather than later. Why is he doing this? Can he do this? What does it all mean? Some estimate his personal fortune to be close to £4billion, so to be perfectly honest he can do what he wants. But why is the Magpies’ owner becoming more involved with the Glasgow club? Here we look at the reasons for the Newcastle United owner getting so involved with a club fallen on hard times that plays in country whose football wealth is a faction of that in the Premier League. What has Mike Ashley actually done at Rangers? A text came through from a pal in Glasgow that simply read: “Ashley’s tanks are on the Ibrox lawns.” That’s a good summary of the situation. Ashley owns 4% of the shares in Rangers personally and recently bought another 5% through MASH holdings - so he is now the second largest shareholder in the club. An Isle of Man hedge fund Laxey Partners owns 16.3% of the shares but there is a lot of jostling between interested parties. Ashley is a major player, though. He has also taken full control of the club’s retail stores. That’s a lot of store room for Sports Direct. He got all of this for a song. It has also transpired that he bought the naming rights to Ibrox for, wait for it, £1. Yes, Rangers who not so long ago were paying more money on wages and transfers than just about every club in Britain are that desperate. He doesn’t own Rangers. Not yet. But he is by far now the most important man at the club. Ashley was also asked to underwrite a £4m share issue, but for the moment that has not happened, as far as we know. So why is he interested at all in a Scottish club that are still not in a top flight? Rangers are in massive trouble. There is no money and a club that size cannot afford to even limp along with all their staff and a massive stadium to look after with the revenue that is coming in. But don’t think for a moment that Rangers are a bad deal. If someone had the money, they could go in there a buy a football institution for a bargain. Then they could pump a bit of cash in to get them to the SPL with the aim of heading to the Champions League in the not-too-distant future . . . And then sell the club for a massive profit some time down the road. Don’t be fooled by the fact Scottish football is struggling a bit at the moment. Rangers are a club with millions of supporters all around the world. That’s a lot of people walking around with tops with the Sports Direct logo on them. Long-term plan? Your guess is as good as mine. Ashley can still own Newcastle and have an interest in Rangers, something we will look at in a moment. If I had to take a punt, I would say he isn’t going anywhere, not in the near future, and yet has worked out a way to increase his company’s profile in Scotland. The Albion Car Park, situated beside Ibrox itself, is a Steven Taylor clearance away from the M8 and owned by the club. It would make a cracking spot for a massive sports equipment store of some description. Just a thought. Do the Rangers fans want him? Not particularly. They certainly don’t want Ibrox being renamed as the Sports Direct Arena. The fact is that the club wouldn’t actually earn any money from such a change. Sound familiar? But they are struggling to pay the bills. A second administration (the club was also liquidated in 2012) is far from an impossibility, so they need someone to help out. And Ashley has the money. A South African-based businessman called Dave King has talked a lot about investing. He’s not done it yet. Rangers are running out of cash and options. He might be their best choice. Can he own two clubs? Ashley can’t own two clubs in the Premier League. But theoretically he could own one in Scotland and also Newcastle. The clubs play in different competitions, but could meet in Europe and this is a problem because clubs owned by the same man cannot play each other in the Champions League or Europa League. But here’s the thing. Uefa’s rules say he could own less than 50.1% of a club and not be considered an owner. They see an owner as being the man who has the majority of voting rights and the power to remove directors. Or to put it another way, the big boss. So Ashley could own a lot of Rangers if he was seen not to be pulling the strings. This means he could rename the stadium, run all the outlets, own a load of shares, as long as he doesn’t have any say in club matters. And does this mean he is positioning himself to sell Newcastle United? Ah, this is the big question. Personally, I can’t see it. First of all, who is going to pay the several hundred million that Ashley would want? The guy is brilliant at making money. According to Forbes he is the 252nd richest person on the planet. And if Sports Direct can benefit from his owning Newcastle, having a stake in Rangers and also Oldham, then that’s what he will do. There may be some obstacles in his way. However, mega-rich, powerful, business men tend to get what they want.

Dog-wanking twat! Roy Keane has fired a broadside at Newcastle United in his explosive new book – and described the Stadium of Light derby win with Sunderland as his greatest day as Black Cats boss. Keane’s new autobiography The Second Half has hit shelves today and the former Manchester United man written about coming to St James’ Park with the Red Devils in the 2004-5 season – and accused the Magpies of being “arrogant”. He has also issued a withering verdict on the atmosphere at Newcastle, saying it wasn’t an intimidating place for him to play. “I always had a bit of hassle against Newcastle. I’d been sent off twice up there. I’d had my battles with (Alan) Shearer and Rob Lee,” he writes. “I always thought they were an arrogant bunch, for a club that had won f*** all. We always got decent results at St James’ Park; it wasn’t a bad place to play. But as for the Toon Army, the Geordies and the hostile reception – I never fell for all that crap.” The Alan Shearer - Roy Keane confrontation The Alan Shearer - Roy Keane confrontation While he is dismissive about Newcastle in his book, Keane is more fulsome about the Tyne-Wear derbies that he managed in. And he rates the 2008 win – Sunderland’s first on home soil for 30 years – as the high-point of his time at the Stadium of Light. “It was the first time we’d beaten Newcastle at home in thirty-odd years. It was electric – the tension. (Djibril) Cisse scored, and Kieran (Richardson). The level of player we had now had gone up since I’d come to the club. We played really well. I think it was my happiest day at Sunderland.” Keane’s insight into a St James’ Park derby in 2008 is also interesting. The Black Cats lost and Keane felt there were “mind games” at play. “We were a goal down after four minutes – a Michael Owen header,” he said. “There were mind games going on before the match. The police got us there three hours before kick off – players got bored, testosterone levels are high; it’s too long to wait. Jonny (Evans) and Phil Bardsley were injured, so didn’t play. They were a big loss.” Keane’s The Second Half is out today.

Ha ha ha

Roy Keane: 10 more gems, including Abba, Robbie Savage and Cork men Keane pulls no punches in his new autobiography, criticising owners, managers and players but admitting the odd regret Daniel Taylor The Guardian, Tuesday 7 October 2014 19.12 BST Roy Keane, The Second HalfRoy Keane had a short fuse at times as revealed in his new autobiography, The Second Half. David Davies/PA 1 Welcome to Hell “My first game [for Celtic] was Clyde, away, in the third round of the Scottish Cup. We were beaten 2-1. It was a nightmare. I wasn’t happy with my own game. I did OK, but OK wasn’t good enough. After the game – the disappointment. As I was taking my jersey off, I noticed the Nike tag was still on it. When I got on the bus John Hartson, a really good guy, was already sitting there and he was eating a packet of crisps – with a fizzy drink. I said to myself: ‘Welcome to Hell.’” 2 Who’s in charge? “It might seem strange but you find out about characters when you look to see who’s in charge of the music. A young lad might want to put on the latest sound; an older player might say: ‘I’m the senior player’ and put himself in charge. But I noticed none of the players [at Sunderland] were in charge of the music and this was a concern for me. A member of staff was in charge. I was looking at him thinking: ‘I hope someone nails him here.’ The last song before the players went on to the pitch was ‘Dancing Queen’ by Abba. What really worried me was that none of the players – not one – said: ‘Get that shit off.’ They were going out to play a match, men versus men, testosterone levels were high. You’ve got to hit people at pace. Fuckin’ ‘Dancing Queen.’ It worried me. I didn’t have as many leaders as I thought.” 3 Blue is not the colour “Our first session [at Ipswich]was open to the fans. But nobody came. My first day – you’d have thought a couple of school kids would have been dragged in by a dad or grandad. The warmth wasn’t there. Then there was the blue training kit. I don’t like fuckin’ blue. City were blue. Rangers were blue. My biggest rivals were blue. Is that childish? I couldn’t feel it – the chemistry. Me and the club. I get annoyed now, thinking that I should have been able to accept it: I was there to do a job.” 4 Lack of respect from Ferguson Keane reveals that when he took Sunderland to Manchester United for his first match back at Old Trafford as a manager there was no post-match drink with Sir Alex Ferguson. “Ferguson never turned up. I thought that was out of order. He called me a few days later to apologise. He said he’d had to rush off after the game and he’d waited a long time for me. I told him he should have a drink with me, like he would have with any other manager, and that he hadn’t shown me or my staff proper respect.” 5 Voicemail turnoff “I rang Mark Hughes. Robbie [savage] wasn’t in the Blackburn team and I asked Mark if we could try to arrange a deal. Sparky said: ‘Yeah, yeah, he’s lost his way here but he could still do a job for you.’ Robbie’s legs were going a bit but I thought he might come up to us [at Sunderland], with his long hair, and give us a lift – the way Yorkie [Dwight Yorke] had, a big personality in the dressing room. Sparky gave me permission to give him a call. So I got Robbie’s mobile number and rang him. It went to his voicemail: ‘Hi, it’s Robbie – whazzup!’ like the Budweiser ad. I never called him back. I thought: ‘I can’t be fucking signing that.’” 6 Bottom of Ellis Short’s shoe “The owner [Ellis Short] rang me. He said: ‘I hear you’re coming in only one day a week.’ I went: ‘It’s nonsense. He said he was disappointed with the Bolton result. His tone wasn’t good. ‘Your location – where you live. You need to move up with your family. I was in the third year of a three-year contract. The arrangement – the flat in Durham, family in Manchester – has suited everybody, until now. I’m not sure if I said something like: ‘Why don’t you move up?’ He lived in London. But I did say: ‘I’m not moving, I’m in the last six or seven months of my contract anyway.’ The conversation didn’t end well. It was a case of ‘no one should tell me where to live’ and the accusation that I was coming in only one day a week hung there. I thought he was talking to me; he spoke to me like I was something on the bottom of his shoe. And before I knew it was – it was over. It still saddens me. I still think I should be the manager of Sunderland. I really liked the club, and I liked the people. But Ellis Short was new – and I wasn’t his manager. It’s probably true that the relationship was never going to work, and not because he was some big, bad Texan and I was some grumpy Northsider from Cork. I don’t like being spoken down to.” 7 Hard on the Corkmen Damien Delaney came in and did OK. I was hard on him, probably because I knew him and he was from Cork. I went over the top. I was the same with another lad, Colin Healy. He was from Cork, too, and I told him he was moving his feet like a League of Ireland player. It was wrong. Colin was new at the club; I should have been bending over backwards for him. I made the point about Ellis Short talking to me like I was something on the bottom of his shoe. I think I spoke like that to some people at Ipswich.” 8 Walters is a wanted man “Jon Walters wanted to leave. We were four or five games into the season. He’d heard that Stoke were interested in him. I said: ‘Jon, I haven’t had a call from anybody.’ He came back a few days later. ‘They’re definitely after me.’ I said: ‘I’ve heard nothing. If there’s a bid, I’ll tell you. I’ve nothing to hide from you. You can ring the owner. I don’t do the business deals.’ ‘I’m not having this.’ There was effing and blinding, a bit of shoving. ‘Why don’t you fucking believe me?’ He was sold to Stoke a week later. We’ve shook hands since.” 9 Couñago’s reply “Pablo Couñago was a player I didn’t particularly like or get on with. No club was interested in taking him – and I was happy to tell him that. I just found him dead lazy. He went: ‘How are we going to win anything with you as manager?’ I nearly physically attacked him – but I didn’t.” 10 A class apart “He [Paul Scholes] was a top, top player. But I still don’t fall for the boy-next-door image, or that he’s dead humble. He has more of an edge to him. Everyone thinks he lives in a council flat. The Class of ’92 – all good players, but their role at the club has become exaggerated. ‘Class of 92’ seems to have grown its own legs; it has become a brand. It’s as if they were a team away from the team, and they’re not shy of plugging into it. We all had the same aims; we all had the hunger.”

Yup he will sort them out financially but will suck the life and joy out of it He hasn't done that here mind - the huge increase of media revenue has done that