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I've only seen it from the other side of the ground but I would have felt it was harsh if we had given away a penalty for that. The only 2 things I was p*ssed off with the ref for was when Remy went down, it looked like a terrible decision. And early on when a West Brom player went down and the ref stopped the game when the ball had already gone out for a throw in and the prick started the game with a drop ball when it should have been our throw in. aye, that was shocking - the ball was already out when he blew for the injury. also let a wba player off in the second half for a tackle from behind on our left wing near the half way line. not even a talking to, never mind a yellow card.

mike ashley wont spend decent money unless it would guarantee champions league football, which he knows it won't. otherwise i dont think he's bothered if we finish 5th or 17th - £20m is too much of a gamble for him to gain an extra couple of million from league positioning and not enough return anyways. he wants to stay in the premier league for as little money as possible.

just like Henry

According to a couple of places it's the most saves in a premier league game since OPTA started in 06/07. Not sure if the stats are around from before that. Imagine whoever was in goal for West Ham about 14 years ago will beat it. We had something like 40 shots Old Ludo Miklosko weren't it? would love to see the stats from that night

think dawson should have seen red for that awful challenge on sissoko

shola!

all from sholas first touch

with the added bonus that Jonas will not walk back into the team when available

63 minutes. I think nufcblog.org have the whole match uploaded oh aye, theres another one at 71mins

63 minutes. I think nufcblog.org have the whole match uploaded

ooh, Lee starting to grow a pair of balls. http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/lee-ryders-big-match-verdict-6257767 Lee Ryder's big match verdict: Toon huff and puff but fail to blow City’s house down 31 Oct 2013 09:44 The Chronicle's chief sports writer Lee Ryder gives his verdict as Newcastle United crash out of the Capital One Cup against Manchester City Share on print Share on email Alvaro Negredo celebrates scoring Manchester City's opener against Newcastle United Alvaro Negredo celebrates scoring Manchester City's opener against Newcastle United Well, Newcastle United gave it a bit of a go – for a while at least. Yet was that ever going to be good enough to see off Manchester City? Sadly and realistically, not really. If we are to go off what we are told by the United board, though, this is all fine and dandy. The cups were never a priority and United are joint 10th – a position which the club’s directors feel is acceptable these days. However, with spirits dampened by derby-day disappointment, an unhappy team never seemed likely to see off City. Let’s, though, give Newcastle a bit of credit for at least making a fist of it in the first half and giving their fans something to cling on to. It was hardly vintage from Alan Pardew’s side in the opening exchanges, but when was the last time you could say that? United have players who have plenty of ability – they have proved that much in the past – and plenty of them. Yet for some reason it is just not clicking and you have to ask when that is going to change. Plenty of people wonder what the problem is with Papiss Cisse. Many will point to the striker’s 32nd- minute chance when he headed Vurnon Anita’s effort at goal before the ball rebounded back to him off a City defender and he snatched at it. Shola Ameobi applied the finish but was ruled offside. Many know an in-form Cisse would have buried that great chance. This is a Cisse who seems devoid of confidence and playing with the uncertainty he is not going to get the golden service (or even silver or bronze) which used to bring out the best in him. View gallery " " " " " " " " " " In pictures: Newcastle United 0 Manchester City 2 View gallery Pardew had set up with Moussa Sissoko and Yoan Gouffran deployed to supply a decent flow of crosses to the Senegal international. Those crosses, though, did not flow yet again. Yes, there were half chances and United forced a few corners in the first half, but while we all automatically and instinctively anticipate a flag kick when watching our beloved black and whites our senses these days tell us otherwise. A lack of quality in that department was nothing to write home about. A bit like the first half. Yes, Newcastle did pose a few questions. Yet if this was meant to be the big response from the derby defeat you have to be a bit concerned. Some United stars do not seem motivated. Others disinterested. Thankfully, City were not all that god either in the first period and a scuffed shot from Micah Richards summed it up for the big-spending visitors. City were not great but they conserved energy by pinging the ball from right to left and it looked like Newcastle, who did plenty of chasing to little avail, were going to burn away their energy. A Sissoko shot was steered wide close to the hour, but then City started to begin to pose a few more difficult questions. First Jesus Navas lured Tim Krul from his goal before picking out ex-Toon man James Milner – but he was unable to trouble the Dutchman. Then City started to make a bit more of a statement. They threw on £26million man David Silva with 25 minutes left. In turn, Newcastle introduced Yohan Cabaye as they tried to find a way past a City defence whoch was not breaking into a sweat. Cabaye pushed up to support Cisse, but service was at a premium again. Often Cisse would drop back to try to win the ball and he spent a large majority of the second half with his back to the Leazes End goal. With Newcastle disjointed there were shots of “change it Pardew” from the crowd as time began to slip away. Edin Dzeko dinked the ball into the side netting as City strode forward. Pardew’s response was to unleash the out-of-sorts Hatem Ben Arfa, who replaced injured substitute Paul Dummett with nine minutes left. A Ben Arfa in full flow might have caused City genuine problems. Yet it was Krul’s sharpness in the final minute which forced the game into extra time after a superb save to deny Negredo. Having wasted a host of corners, Newcastle then started to play their flag kicks short – and with more potent finishing it might have paid off. In the dying moments of normal time, Cabaye crossed for Gouffran – but his header bounced wide. Three minutes into extra time and Cisse had a golden chance. Having slipped in to beat the offside trap, Pantilimon smothered his effort and with that any hope of pushing on in the cup seemed to go up in smoke. United had kindly opened things up behind the scenes for Sky before the game in a bid to boost flagging PR. Although the access all areas was probably taken too far as the visitors were allowed far too much time and space on 99 minutes. When you pay a cool £20million for a striker you generally get some dividends at some stage. For City that moment came when Dzeko picked out ex-Seville star Negredo to nail home a killer blow at the start of extra time. Six minutes later Dzeko latched on to James Milner’s through ball to finish off the job

it's not just the missed chances - it's also the gormless wandering around in an offside position.

had the chances to win in normal time

gouffran also becoming nearly undroppable due his hard work and tracking back

ssn invited in to dressing rooms - ha ha ha. clearest and dumbest of PR stunts.

Posted elsewhere but some good points made. Now is the golden opportunity to start asking the awkward questions that should already have been asked. where's that from? has anyone forwarded it to the papers, or tweeted it to the "journalists".

starting to get ever so slightly more critical and objective - not much, but it's a start. http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/sport/sport-opinion/neil-cameron-alan-pardew-needs-6248315 Neil Cameron: Pardew needs to play his best team against Manchester City 28 Oct 2013 11:58 It was an afternoon that left us with many questions and if you work for this newspaper they weren't getting answered Share on print Share on email Newcastle United boss Alan Pardew Newcastle United boss Alan Pardew It was an afternoon that left us with many questions and if you work for this newspaper they weren’t getting answered. But one thing came out of the defeat. One thing we do know to be absolutely true. And that’s Alan Pardew must play his strongest team against Manchester City on Wednesday in their Capital Cup match. Not a strong team or an experienced team. His very best team. It’s not a chance to blood some kids. Gabriel Obertan cannot be allowed anywhere near the pitch. That is the very least Newcastle United supporters deserve after yesterday when they watched with bewildered agony as a “gutless” Sunderland side, with just one point from eight games before this Wear-Tyne derby, beat them at the Stadium of Light. The home side edged it and that’s the truth. The visiting fans looked utterly sick by the end of it all. You couldn’t blame them. If Pardew resorts to type when it comes to the League Cup and rests his bigger names for the visit of City, whose third team is worth roughly £100m, then they will be put out of the only competition that have a realistic chance of winning. On the back of a derby defeat, that will be too much to take for some. Those who don’t like Pardew really don’t like him, no matter what the man does. Those who can’t make up their minds will have a far stronger negative opinion now. Those who still back him are running out of patience. This isn’t an opinion, by the way. It’s fact. He could do with some friends right now. So, Alan, take some friendly advice. Go with your strongest XI on Wednesday night. Who cares if they are tired or have a knock. This last-16 cup tie has all of a sudden become massively important. A win would do you a power of good. If Newcastle can get themselves into the giddy heights of a quarter-final place, some time will be bought, if not a lot. If Pardew goes into the game and doesn’t go for it, and with Chelsea and Tottenham next up in the Premier League, he puts himself under more pressure. Make no mistake, these are testing times for Newcastle’s manager. Joe Harvey was the last man who occupied that high office to lose successive derbies. You have to go back to Bill McGarry to find the last Newcastle manager to lose two derbies full stop, in 1979 and 1980. Pardew thought his team deserved to win yesterday. He was something of a lone voice there. They might, and it’s a slim might, have done enough to earn a draw. But that’s straw-clutching. Newcastle started appallingly, went a goal down, and then without doing all that much, got themselves level and then allowed Sunderland back into it. Oh sure, there were moments such as Shola Ameobi’s shot that for all the world looked like it was going in, and quick reactions from Keiren Westwood stopped a late equaliser. But these are typical derby moments. They were fairly irrelevant. It’s not as if the Sunderland keeper had a worldy or there were penalty shouts or goals wrong chopped off. There were a few half-chances. That was it. Newcastle are a better team than Sunderland. It might seem a bit daft to say that after yesterday, but I genuinely believe this. Hard work only beats talent when the talent doesn’t work hard. That’s happened in this derby twice in the space of six months. Too many players in black and white fell short yesterday. Way short. Newcastle turned in a strangely disjointed performance at the Stadium of Light. All those derby clichés of winning battles, running hard, facing up to the opposition, well they happen to be true. Sunderland seemed to get that message. Those in black and white waited until after half-time before really showing up. Moussa Sissoko was an empty jersey and was subbed at half-time. Yohan Cabaye did little right and Hatem Ben Arfa was appalling for 45 minutes, woke up, set up the equaliser, then disappeared. Loic Remy chased lost causes and Papiss Cisse, when he came on, looked a two yards off the pace. Cheick Tiote can look himself in the mirror. He put in a shift, passed the ball and tried to get his team-mates going. They weren’t listening. Here’s the thing. At 1-1, you felt United would go on and win it. Sunderland were tired and hadn’t really threatened in the second-half. Where was a goal going to come for them? To be fair, Fabio Borini answered that with a superb strike. Overall, Sunderland were more hungry and that tends to win these games. United never really got a proper foothold even if for periods they were on top. Ben Arfa had one of those games that has you tearing clumps out of your hair. And yet it was his cross-cum-shot that allowed Mathieu Debuchy to creep past Adam Johnson at the back postand score an equaliser that Newcastle fans probably didn’t see coming. That should have been the signal for Newcastle to go for broke. Oddly, and it was a strange game all in, Sunderland got back into things when they had been really off the pace. The next goal was always going to be the winner. Sunderland scored it. The victors weren’t even that brilliant themselves. Wednesday is another game and a chance to put some things right. And Newcastle now have some making-up to do with their supporters.

just give JFK the job - the sooner he fucks it up, the sooner we can get shot of him as well and try to move on. couldnt get any worse after that, could it??

lose a match with an attacking line up and he panics and reverts to type. happened after wigan away and then again this time after hull. could have just sent the the same team/system out with tiote in and anita moved into cabaye's position. just know jonas is going to be straight in when he's fit - surprised pardew hasnt used him as an excuse yet.

fucking hell man, just posting a pic of a player and this is stick i get. last time me kids were getting stick for not smiling with santon in asda and wearing mispelt tee shirts. and no not a briefcase but one of them metal type camera cases things. sheeesh.

http://imageshack.us/a/img18/5915/qpe6.jpg this lunchtime at the garage opposite marriot gosforth

http://sportwitness.ning.com/forum/topics/more-murky-claims-on-gomis-to-newcastle The president of Lyon Jean-Michel Aulas has told the French media that Newcastle United’s attempts to bring Bafétimbi Gomis to England broke down because of the player’s agent. There have been reports in France that the transfer never happened due to a disagreement over the salary Newcastle had offered the French international which is something Aulas has denied Le10 Sport have reported on Aulas' claims that the transfer fee and the salary had been agreed with Newcastle. He revealed discussions had progressed well with the Premier League club but all of sudden the deal was pulled by the club because of issues with player’s agent. In the end he said Gomis had to return to the French club and start the season with Lyon. Aulas believes if there wasn’t any interference from the forward’s agent then he would now be a Newcastle United player. He said that any president would have done the same thing if they were in his position and pull out of the deal. "There was no problem with wages and no problem on the transfer fee with Newcastle .There was other problems why Bafé could not leave. It wasn’t a problem with Newcastle but there was a final discussion with the agents and this is why Bafe failed to leave. Obviously he had to return. All club presidents would have done the same thing. I think if there had been no interference by a number of people in this case, Bafé would have gone,” said Aulas on the situation.

hope he plays from the start against Leeds

Anyone else think that the steve harper testimonial came at a perfect time for us? The current players realising the size of the club they are playing for and the world class players that have donned the black and white shirt in the past. World class ex-Milan players gushing over the fans the stadium and the history of the club. Ex players sticking the boot into the current regime. The highest crowd of the season, together with the standard of ex-toon players and their immediate association with "the entertainers" would have given pardew a wake up call and hopefully made him realise what this club is all about. The history and potential of this club is there for all to see. Unfortunately, the only person it would have had no effect on would have been Ashley.

aye, probably went there with instructions to get a clause to sign him at the end of the season. Thought he would be clever and didn't agree one with the thought of getting him on the cheap instead and impressing mike with his clever work.