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Before I forget, an extra special mention for Heza09 for being outrageously drunk yesterday. Definitely scooped the award for Most Hammered. :lol:

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http://www.mirrorfootball.co.uk/news/Sunderland-Newcastle-daily-mirror-match-report-Ryan-Taylor-goal-Phil-Bardsley-sent-off-article788588.html

Sunderland 0-1 Newcastle: Daily Mirror match report

 

Published 22:00 21/08/11 By Simon Bird

 

 

Newcastle’s pre-season threw up awkward questions, but Alan Pardew’s players are providing positive answers.

 

Had the leadership has been ripped out of the side when Kevin Nolan was sold?

 

In steps Fabricio Coloccini with his thoughtful professionalism on and off the pitch.

 

Would the spirit disappear because senior players were being sidelined?

 

Not on this evidence, with team work and togetherness hauling United through a messy match on top... and through a long night of celebrations on Tyneside.

 

Sell Jose Enrique with no specialist left back to call upon?

 

No problem, when you have a pro like Ryan Taylor to step in, grit it out in an unfamiliar position, and unleash a fantastic free kick to win the game.

 

Joey Barton, plus combustible derby match, equals recipe for more controversy?

 

Not a bit of it. Barton kept his head, while it was Sunderland who disgraced themselves.

 

Phil Bardsley should have been sent off for a potential leg breaking lunge on Coloccini, Lee Cattermole somehow escaping a red card for cutting through Jonas Gutierrez.

 

And Seb Larsson should have been dismissed for handball on the line to keep out Barton’s header. Replays showed him conning the officials by saying it hit him in the face.

 

Newcastle are a club used to being at the centre of chaos and difficult questioning and appear to thrive at coming up with answers.

 

So here are the next questions.

 

Does this mean Newcastle no longer need to buy a new left back - Pardew travelled to watch Erik Pieters play for PSV Eindhoven yesterday. Or to seal the deal for Mobido Maiga, the striker needed to spark up the attack?

 

Of course not, both deals need to be done to keep the momentum and feel good among the Geordie public generated by this victory. Then, if no one else leaves, most fans would be reasonably content at the summer reshuffle.

 

Unlikely hero for the day, Ryan Taylor, deserved his glory. On Friday it was his birthday, and this week could throw up an even bigger reason to celebrate.

 

He explained: “It is not nice spending your birthday in a hotel away from the Mrs who is about to drop. But what a birthday present that was today. That one was for the little bump in the Mrs’ belly.

 

“I am going to give the baby that one. It is our first one. The baby is due in a week or two maximum. So that goes to the baby and Kimberley my wife.”

 

Taylor only got his chance when Jose Enrique was sold to Liverpool, and James Perch then picked up an injury.

 

He added: “The free kicks do not always come off but when they do it is fantastic. I have scored many goals against Newcastle in the past so hopefully that will cancel one of them off!

 

“I am a Newcastle player and I want to play as long as possible here.”

 

Newcastle are yet to concede this season, and centre backs Coloccini and Steven Taylor have been excellent.

 

Steven Taylor said: “There is still a lot of spirit within this club. We have a small squad, but we stick together. We’re very closely knit and we’ll enjoy this result as a team. In the past, that hasn’t always been the case, but we’re very close.”

 

“We know how to handle ourselves in this kind of game. We have players who know how to fight. We probably couldn’t have played any worse than we did in the first half, but they couldn’t score. So we said at half-time ‘right, now it’s our turn to play”.

 

Winger Jonas Gutierrez was a key ingredient with his running on the ball, that relieved the pressure and teased the Sunderland defence.

 

Newcastle boss Pardew said: “Sometimes you need results to reinforce that spirit. I’m not going to say that if we had lost the first two games then it wouldn’t have been brought in to question, but it is reflected on the pitch of course. It was reflected against Arsenal and again here.

 

“It is about the team. About filling in for people and getting people out of trouble. It is about having good staff and making sure your senior players are looked after.

 

“We have good pros like Alan Smith and Steve Harper with us today. Alan Smith was not in the squad but he wanted to travel. He wanted to be part of it. That just sums up what you need at the club. I have to respect those guys and I look after them.

 

“It is about having players like Cabaye, a new player, who has the spirit to win. It will come out and serve us in some form and it did.

 

“It’s a passionate place. Whether it is something negative like ‘sign a striker Pardew’ or whatever, like that great comeback result against Arsenal. You just sense the passion and you have got to love that.

 

“I have been at clubs who don’t have that. They just don’t have it. It’s an ingredient you try to install in your team but you get it from the terraces too. Here it is generated by our city.”

 

Man of match: Coloccini: Emerging as new foundations of Pardew’s squad.

 

Villain: Bardsley: Disgraceful tackle on Coloccini and deserved red.

 

Sunderland: Mignolet 4; Bardsley 3, Ferdinand 5, Brown 4, Richardson 5 (Ji, 71 4); Elmohamady 6 (Gardner, 71 5), Cattermole 4, Colback 5, Larsson 5 (Wickham, 81); Sessegnon 7; Gyan 4.

 

Newcastle United: Krul 7; Simpson 6, S Taylor 7, Coloccini 8, R Taylor 7; Obertan 6 (Gosling, 85), Barton 7, Cabaye 6 (Williamson, 85), Tiote 6, Gutierrez 7; Ameobi 6.

 

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Don't know if it has been mentioned but after the warm up, all of the players came over to applaud the fans and Vukcic (I think it was) was geeing up the fans in a Saylor fashion.  I've not seen them do that before as they normally just drift back straight to the tunnel with the odd acknowledgement to the supporters enroute.

 

 

 

 

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Don't know if it has been mentioned but after the warm up, all of the players came over to applaud the fans and Vukcic (I think it was) was geeing up the fans in a Saylor fashion.  I've not seen them do that before as they normally just drift back straight to the tunnel with the odd acknowledgement to the supporters enroute.

 

 

 

 

 

Both Vukic and Abeid were there. :aww:

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Is he a Newcastle fan? :lol: either way he will be according to RTG now.

 

Bird? Aye he is.

 

Fair enough, looked like it was written by a Newcastle fan, probably should have known that :lol:

 

Still, good article.

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Not surprisingly the unwashed are not of the same opinion

 

http://www.readytogo.net/smb/showthread.php?t=620096

 

Have they nicked the fucking Giggs thing we do?

 

sorry if seb

 

What does 'SEB' mean?

A long time ago there was a joke which hopefully everyone has heard by now about Sophie Ellis Bextor and a Murder on Zidane's Floor.

 

The joke itself doesn't matter, but over a few months loads of different people posted it on here thinking they were the first person to do so.

 

For anyone regularly visiting the message boards this became very tedious.

 

So literally, "SEB" means Sophie Ellis Bextor - it is used whenever a topic is repeated several times on the message board (perhaps Seen 'Ere Before is a better way of thinking about it).

 

Of course the question "What does 'SEB' mean?" is SEB in itself.

 

Try reading beyond the 1st page of posts or using the search facility before you post your messages to avoid this.

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http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/sport/football/3764570/Sunderland-0-Newcastle-1.html

 

"John Carver thinks he has done about 12 of these games and was like a little boy here. I didn't understand what he was saying some of the time. He was just so emotionally involved."

 

 

 

Probably way to early, but given some luck I think the staff, first team, and reserve squad we have put together over the last year or so is one of the most likeable and promising we have had, or at least has me more hopeful for the future in a long time.

 

Again, happy to accept that it maybe just the high of the weekend still kicking on but fuck, I just can't help love most if not all of them. Even Andy Woodman is a funny fucker. :lol:

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http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/sport/football/3764570/Sunderland-0-Newcastle-1.html

 

"John Carver thinks he has done about 12 of these games and was like a little boy here. I didn't understand what he was saying some of the time. He was just so emotionally involved."

 

 

 

Probably way to early, but given some luck I think the staff, first team, and reserve squad we have put together over the last year or so is one of the most likeable and promising we have had, or at least has me more hopeful for the future in a long time.

 

Again, happy to accept that it maybe just the high of the weekend still kicking on but fuck, I just can't help love most if not all of them. Even Andy Woodman is a funny fucker. :lol:

 

Not up there with 'This group of lads' yet.

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http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/sport/football/3764570/Sunderland-0-Newcastle-1.html

 

"John Carver thinks he has done about 12 of these games and was like a little boy here. I didn't understand what he was saying some of the time. He was just so emotionally involved."

 

 

 

Just watched the highlights on there and notice as the goal goes in some kid goes flying over the metal fence in the front row. :laugh:

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