Fight/bust up at the training ground?

[quayside]

The Chronicle says Northumbria police contacted the club after seeing the reports of a fight but Taylor refused to make any comment.

 

Wonder how people's opinions of the two players will change if Taylor opts not to take this any further.

 

If the rumours are true about what happened then Taylor would look a right tit in a public court of law. The press will be all over it.

 

You can just see it - first piece of evidence for the defence, a text from Mr S Taylor:

 

"Alreet lass? As Andy is doon in Wales if ya feel a bit lonely ah'd be happy to come roond and part ya curtains like. Just like the old times eh pet."

 

I think he might be wise to let it be tbh.....

 

As i'm sure you know, you cant go around breaking peoples jaws no matter how many texts your girlfriend receives. Not lawfully anyway.

 

Agree but if Taylor is going to pursue it he needs to think carefully about what might come out in the trial. Especially so given that it would be sure to attract a lot of media attention. He's got his career to think about and if the content of whatever provoked Carroll were revealed it might not do Taylor (and Carroll) any favours.

[Mick]

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/03/26/article-1260812-08E1AF48000005DC-216_468x628.jpg

 

Bandages on both hands, so it wasn't even one lucky punch.

[cubaricho]

Is it impossible not to go out for a week or two while the bandages are on?

[David28]

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/03/26/article-1260812-08E1AF48000005DC-216_468x628.jpg

 

Bandages on both hands, so it wasn't even one lucky punch.

 

Incredible what a fight this must have been. I can't think about beating someone so hard in his face that both my hands would have to be bandaged.

[madras]

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/03/26/article-1260812-08E1AF48000005DC-216_468x628.jpg

 

Bandages on both hands, so it wasn't even one lucky punch.

 

Incredible what a fight this must have been. I can't think about beating someone so hard in his face that both my hands would have to be bandaged.

one punch for taylor

 

 

one for the bird ?

[cp40]

is the one on the right not just the dressing they put on when they put pain killers direct into your vien?

[Mick]

is the one on the right not just the dressing they put on when they put pain killers direct into your vien?

 

No, that wouldn't be covering his fingers.

[madras]

maybe it's not for anything. he just thinks matching bandages are trendier ?

[Guest Stephen927]

Whats he wearing his prison shirt for on a night out?

[Liam Liam Liam O]

Is it impossible not to go out for a week or two while the bandages are on?

 

Exactly what I thought.

[Mick]

Whats he wearing his prison shirt for on a night out?

 

Practice.

[binnsy]

where was he when he's been caught on camera?  Why's the daft sod been out and about, surely after the club have done a pretty good job de-fusing the situation and playing it down and out the papers he should've been laying low until his injuries have heeled(or at least had the bandages removed).

[Frazzle]

He was at a 50 Cent gig apparently.  As long as he wasn't getting pissed I'm not that bothered.  Everyone knows he smacked Taylor whether he plays in gloves or doesn't or whether he goes out or doesn't.

[Karjala]

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/03/26/article-1260812-08E1AF48000005DC-216_468x628.jpg

ugly fucker like.

 

Think its too early for a 5yr deal tbh. Can see that going right to his head, and he's still gotta prove he can cut the mustard in the prem.

[Karjala]

 

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-1261001/Newcastles-Andy-Carroll-shows-bandaged-hands-50-Cent-concert-bust-Steven-Taylor.html?ITO=1490#ixzz0jJBP4R25

 

Nice dress sense from Ireland and Adebeyor, fucking hell.

 

Wonder what titus is writing on his mobile? suprised he can read or write.

[Guest Heneage]

The lads got dodgy dress sense.

[David28]

Is it impossible not to go out for a week or two while the bandages are on?

 

Exactly what I thought.

 

My thoughts as well. I think he should rather sit at home thinking about what he's done. Bad enough he's beating a team mate for whatever reason.

Taylor probably sitting at home in pain and Carroll goes out like nothing has happened. Can't understand that really.

[binnsy]

The lads got dodgy dress sense.

 

are you going to tell him??

[madras]

The lads got dodgy dress sense.

 

are you going to tell him??

i would. more time off work and compen.

[Guest Heneage]

The lads got dodgy dress sense.

 

are you going to tell him??

Yes. He would never hit an openly gay man.

[madras]

The lads got dodgy dress sense.

 

are you going to tell him??

Yes. He would never hit an openly gay man.

already has

[Guest fraser]

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/03/26/article-1260812-08E1AF48000005DC-216_468x628.jpg

ugly f***er like.

 

Think its too early for a 5yr deal tbh. Can see that going right to his head, and he's still gotta prove he can cut the mustard in the prem.

 

Injured his knuckles where they drag along the floor?

[Ameritoon]

Pretty sure it's a requirement for Prem players to have a shitty style.

[Guest Stephen927]

Federico Macheda with his Asda special jeans on.

[Rich]

Some guff from Louise Taylor:

 

Steven Taylor wants to leave after Newcastle back Andy Carroll

Louise "Dirty Mackem Boiler" Taylor

 

Steven Taylor is understood to feel badly betrayed by Newcastle United and now believes he has no future at the club. The former England Under-21 centre-half had his jaw broken in an alleged altercation with a team-mate, striker Andy Carroll last Sunday. Taylor, who spent two nights in hospital and required surgery, has been dismayed by the support Carroll is receiving both from within St James' Park and from Newcastle's supporters.

 

It seems Chris Hughton, Newcastle's manager – who resolutely refuses to comment on the incident – accepts the two Geordies can no longer work together and has decided the centre-forward is the player he wants to keep.

 

Carroll, currently on bail following an alleged nightclub assault and facing a crown court appearance on an actual bodily harm charge at the end of next month, was controversially selected to play at Doncaster last Tuesday night.

 

After Carroll scored the winner, Hughton – who rarely singles out players – praised his contribution. By Thursday night Carroll was photographed out on the town in Manchester at a rap concert, sporting bandages on both hands.

 

Back home in Newcastle Taylor was feeding through a straw and turning down requests to photograph his newly wired jaw. Those close to the player, arguably Newcastle's best defender, do not buy the view that he provoked Carroll in what is thought to have been an argument over a woman.

 

Carroll is thought to be part of a powerful dressing-room clique that Taylor has never really fitted into. Kevin Nolan is a key figure inside St James' Park and, significantly, the midfielder now shares an agent with Carroll. Taylor, meanwhile, was perhaps always too close to Hughton's predecessor Alan Shearer for the former Tottenham coach's liking. Taylor has only 14 months left on his contract and Newcastle are unhappy about the prospect of him leaving on a Bosman transfer in the summer of 2011. Selling him now would give them the chance to avoid doing so.

 

With a return to the Premier League now almost within touching distance, Hughton – whose side are at home to Nottingham Forest tomorrow night in a key Championship promotion clash – does not want either to disturb the dressing room's political power balance or risk jeopardising results by dropping a striker currently on a hot scoring streak.

 

Even so Carroll's continued involvement appears a thoroughly depressing victory for pragmatism over principles and Hughton has surely been diminished by the entire sorry affair.

 

Newcastle's manager won a UN commendation for anti-apartheid campaigning but as Carroll waved insouciantly to fans at Doncaster it seemed Hughton had suddenly lost sight of the bigger picture.

 

After doing brilliantly to keep Newcastle top of the table this season, he now looks weak and it is not impossible that this affair could yet spark a chain of events that may lead to him being replaced by a manager such as Mark Hughes or Steve McClaren next season.

 

Certainly in some uncannily prophetic comments a few weeks ago, Shearer spelt out a message his successor as Newcastle's manager should have been making plain. "Andy has a lot of talent but he needs to improve in almost every area," said Shearer. "There are also one or two things going on off the pitch he has to sort out. When you're in his position you can't keep making mistakes."

 

It is only thanks to Taylor's desire not to damage his home-town team's promotion bid that he declined to take part in the police investigation into the incident.

 

Meanwhile Hughton's handling of the affair raises questions as to whether Newcastle really have the right manager for the long term.

 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2010/mar/27/steven-taylor-andy-carroll-newcastle