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"I have to be honest, I would like to have levels of communication greater than they are in terms of 'is our message and the message of my staff getting through 100 per cent'? We hope it is and hopefully at West Ham it will. We've used different forms and will change it if we feel it's necessary.

 

"Cabaye made a point to me this week. He said that when he arrived he didn't have an interpreter and therefore learned English that bit quicker. We've used an interpreter because we've got so many new guys who don't understand the language.

 

"It's like trying to get that balance right of actually forcing them to learn the language – but we do need to understand what their problem is. So there's a balance to get right."

 

That quote there fills me with apprehension. I find it staggering that a manager isn't sure whether he and his coaching staff are able to communicate to his footballers what's required after having so many French players in his team for over a year. He's clearly shitting his pants before the West Ham game as well as he's "hoping" that he'll be able to get his message across before that game. I can't think of a better argument for having a foreign manager who is multi-lingual, or at least one who has enough sense to hire coaching staff that are. Looks like we are going into tomorrow's match on a wing and a proayer.

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"I have to be honest, I would like to have levels of communication greater than they are in terms of 'is our message and the message of my staff getting through 100 per cent'? We hope it is and hopefully at West Ham it will. We've used different forms and will change it if we feel it's necessary.

 

"Cabaye made a point to me this week. He said that when he arrived he didn't have an interpreter and therefore learned English that bit quicker. We've used an interpreter because we've got so many new guys who don't understand the language.

 

"It's like trying to get that balance right of actually forcing them to learn the language – but we do need to understand what their problem is. So there's a balance to get right."

 

That quote there fills me with apprehension. I find it staggering that a manager isn't sure whether he and his coaching staff are able to communicate to his footballers what's required after having so many French players in his team for over a year. He's clearly shitting his pants before the West Ham game as well as he's "hoping" that he'll be able to get his message across before that game. I can't think of a better argument for having a foreign manager who is multi-lingual, or at least one who has enough sense to hire coaching staff that are. Looks like we are going into tomorrow's match on a wing and a proayer.

 

Pochettino has come into a squad not speaking a word of English and has them playing some superb stuff. Shit explanation from a shit manager.

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Dr Venkman

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I'm sure that's been very paraphrased, but it's a common theme at St James when the pressure is on. Any attempted pass that results in a turnover of possession is met with something between audible sighs of exasperation and uncontrollable howls of derision. We tend to get a bit bipolar if things aren't going our way.

 

Yeah, it's not responsible for our form though, or we'd be relegated every season.

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"I have to be honest, I would like to have levels of communication greater than they are in terms of 'is our message and the message of my staff getting through 100 per cent'? We hope it is and hopefully at West Ham it will. We've used different forms and will change it if we feel it's necessary.

 

"Cabaye made a point to me this week. He said that when he arrived he didn't have an interpreter and therefore learned English that bit quicker. We've used an interpreter because we've got so many new guys who don't understand the language.

 

"It's like trying to get that balance right of actually forcing them to learn the language – but we do need to understand what their problem is. So there's a balance to get right."

 

That quote there fills me with apprehension. I find it staggering that a manager isn't sure whether he and his coaching staff are able to communicate to his footballers what's required after having so many French players in his team for over a year. He's clearly shitting his pants before the West Ham game as well as he's "hoping" that he'll be able to get his message across before that game. I can't think of a better argument for having a foreign manager who is multi-lingual, or at least one who has enough sense to hire coaching staff that are. Looks like we are going into tomorrow's match on a wing and a proayer.

 

Pochettino has come into a squad not speaking a word of English and has them playing some superb stuff. s*** explanation from a s*** manager.

 

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It's fucking obvious why they don't do it. They ask him questions that don't directly blame him so that he continues to talk to them.

 

Call a manager useless and he'll stop talking to you. Call his players useless and he'll get angry and disagree with you but continue dialogue.

 

Still, as a fan it's shit. They're not asking the questions that I want them to ask, that NEED to be asked.

So why not take advantage of Luke Edwards' banning and have him ask these tough questions (via Twitter). If he's already on the outside, then he might find himself selling papers (or getting hits) from crticising Pardew or even spearheading a "Pardew Out" campaign. The southern media will jump on board once a lead has been made...

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S'hampton are playing even more expansive football than before...They stream forward when they have the ball and seem to play without fear.

 

pardew has our players so wound up about the opposition's strengths that i feel they come out at home to teams like reading fearing a drubbing and hoping to nick a lucky winner.

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Cheeky bastards.

 

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/newcastle-united/10034281/Newcastle-Uniteds-attack-on-The-Telegraph-leaves-world-holding-its-breath.html

 

Newcastle United's attack on The Telegraph leaves world holding its breath

 

The last thing anyone responsible would do, at this stage of the dispute that has led to Newcastle United banning our reporter, Luke Edwards, and Telegraph Sport from every part of that club, is risk aggravating a highly incendiary situation.

 

Newcastle United's attack on the Telegraph leaves world holding its breath

 

Desperately fraught times such as these demand cool heads and soft words.

 

We have moved with mortifying speed to DefCon 2, and the imperative is to avoid escalating the conflict beyond the point of no return. Many of you will be reminded of the Cuban Missile Crisis, and it is to JFK’s calm and resolute spirit that we turn for our guide.

 

On this basis, it would be folly to risk further offending the delicate sensibilities of Derek Llambias, Newcastle’s managing director, by referring to him as the Nikita Khrushchev of Tyneside.

 

For one thing, there is no record of Llambias theatrically banging a shoe on a table at the United Nations. For another, it remains too soon to predict whether he will be the one to blink first.

 

Admittedly, the Telegraph held its nerve during another freedom of speech dispute not long ago, when No 10 tried to spook it out of reporting a cabinet minister’s questionable expenses claims with oblique yet menacing references to the Leveson kaleidoscope being in flux.

 

But where the threats of Downing Street are lightly brushed off, exclusion from St James’ Park is a concern of a very different order. Especially so with as many as one Premier League game to be played there before the season is out.

 

Next season, of course, there may be no Premier League fixtures at all. With Newcastle’s form in freefall, there is a fair chance of relegation.

 

One both understands the strain on Llambias, and applauds the dignity with which he is handling it.

 

The story which so distressed concerned a dressing-room schism. Armed with as few as four independent sources, three within the club, Luke reported that elements in the squad suspect the French contingent of a laissez-faire approach to the prospect of the drop, and of undermining their manager Alan Pardew.

 

Luke was accused of false rumour-mongering, and a solicitor’s letter was sent demanding an apology and the report’s removal from the website. I have to tell you that no such undertakings have been offered, and that consequently this newspaper is at war with Newcastle United.

 

How long it will endure is unknowable, though we expect it to be over long before Christmas. Perhaps a precedent will be helpful. In 2007, after a sequence of columns gently questioning his competence, Tottenham Hotspur’s hyper-cerebral Chairman Daniel Levy (he took a Cambridge First in the legendarily demanding discipline of Land Economy) imposed an identically draconian ban on me and the London Evening Standard.

 

Almost six years later, the residual post-traumatic stress makes it tough to write about this episode. On its own, the memory of going to White Hart Lane in a burka, to avoid detection by the SWAT teams posted at every turnstile, necessitates a medicinal nip of Famous Grouse before I can continue.

 

Having swigged, I can report that the Levy fatwa was greeted with a level of ridicule which, though I found it unseemly, persuaded Levy to abandon it after a few weeks. The result, I like to think, was an honourable draw, and there has not been an angry word – or indeed any word – between us since.

 

Fanciful as this may seem while we remain enveloped by the fog of war, I have hopes that the present dispute will have an even happier outcome. The bonding power of the siege mentality on a divided dressing room is well known, and if Pardew can persuade his players, French and otherwise, that they are all victims of the most wicked Telegraph persecution, it could prove their salvation.

 

In that event, I trust hostilities will be suspended, and the world will breathe its loudest collective sigh of relief since Khrushchev removed his warheads from Cuba. One small request, finally, should this come to pass.

 

The next time Llambias and his friend and chairman, Mike Ashley, delight the Toon army by renaming the ground, in succession to the romantic if brief flirtation with the “Sports Direct Arena”, they should repay the debt by calling it the Luke Edwards Freedom of Speech Stadium.

 

I'd keep them bloody well banned.

 

From the writers page - Matthew Norman is a former British Press Awards winner as both Columnist and Food and Drink Writer of the Year.

 

Say no more. 

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BottledDog

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That's hilarious. :lol:

 

Not sure who's coming out of this looking more pitiful tbh.

 

Unless they are willing to name names, it's pretty obviously the ones writing spurious drivel about our players then getting all shirty.

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I never remember my dreams, but I actually dreamt last night that I logged onto here to see the top thread saying "Pardew walks". Pretty sad that I'm dreaming of an internet forum, but I was so happy for a short period of time :lol:

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I never remember my dreams, but I actually dreamt last night that I logged onto here to see the top thread saying "Pardew walks". Pretty sad that I'm dreaming of an internet forum, but I was so happy for a short period of time :lol:

 

That's what matters, bless your little cotton socks.

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Gallowgate Toon

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Fucking hell, finally!

 

“We need to play a brand of football which threatens the goal a little bit more because if you say to me what is my biggest concern I would say ‘goals’.

 

“I have just conceded six but sometimes if you are threatening the goal a little bit more you don’t need to defend as often and you can defend with a little more confidence.'

 

Read more: Journal Live http://www.journallive.co.uk/nufc/newcastle-united-news/2013/05/03/no-stone-left-unturned-as-alan-pardew-looks-to-end-slump-61634-33275619/#ixzz2SDgjGlYz

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