On the Eve of the new Season...

If I ever make it to a Manchester Derby in my life, and the outcome was as dramatic as yesterday's match, one guy I would never taunt as they were leaving the pitch would be Craig Bellamy.  I knew this before I saw this picture:

sucker punching a fan fits in well as a chapter in bel's career

Wednesday, Sept 23

2:40pm LIVE Carling Cup - Man Utd vs Wolverhampton (Set)


Newcastle returns to the tubes this Saturday….

thank god. i'm losing my marbles over here

vansmack wrote:
If I ever make it to a Manchester Derby in my life, and the outcome was as dramatic as yesterday's match, one guy I would never taunt as they were leaving the pitch would be Craig Bellamy.  I knew this before I saw this picture:

You did notice that the fan had his arms restrained by a steward when Bellamy punched him? Bellamy has always been a twat, now he plays for the moss side morons he's elevated to a fucking blue twat.

I'm not sure what Hughes is bellyaching about the added time for. If it's tied then the added time benefits both teams equally and shitty could quite easily have put one in against the run of play just like they did all game. Had Bellamy not celebrated for about 2 minutes after their third goal then time would not have been added to the 4 minutes. The ref can and should add more time on should a team be time wasting or for subsitions during injury time…. Hughes is quickly becoming the Welsh Wenger.

Oh it's good to know the red side of manc still dominates.

Frank wrote:
I'm not sure what Hughes is bellyaching about the added time for. If it's tied then the added time benefits both teams equally and shitty could quite easily have put one in against the run of play just like they did all game.

I can see why he's complaining, but I agree with you.  The ref signalled 4 minutes.  Shitty then scored and celebrated for 55 seconds.  Add one minute for that.  30 seconds for the Carrick substituion and we play to 95:30.  Owen scores at 95:25 - time for celebration, kickoff, blow whistle.  End of game.  End of story.

yay! i'm happy i agree with mankie on the bells is a twat point  ;D

vansmack wrote:

Frank wrote:
I'm not sure what Hughes is bellyaching about the added time for. If it's tied then the added time benefits both teams equally and shitty could quite easily have put one in against the run of play just like they did all game.

I can see why he's complaining, but I agree with you.  The ref signalled 4 minutes.  Shitty then scored and celebrated for 55 seconds.  Add one minute for that.  30 seconds for the Carrick substituion and we play to 95:30.  Owen scores at 95:25 - time for celebration, kickoff, blow whistle.  End of game.  End of story.

I didn't see the game, what I do in these situations is to imagine how I would have reacted if the game had been at Manchester City's stadium and the situation had been the opposite with City (why not Tevez?) scoring the goal at 95:25.

(I did it last year after Chelsea's complaints after the game with Barcelona and thought that if we had been in Chelsea's situation I would have wanted to fire the coach and the players rather than kill the referee)

Well its surprising…

I think its atypical to have a game with 7 minutes added on…

It happens more in banana countries like Argentina… where there is more timewasting simulating etc/ fan riots during game/ electricity shutting down/ more cards/ the refs are bought and paid for etc.

But in Europe to have seven minutes tacked on is unusual.. Then again its England and they do follow the book.. maybe everyone else is wrong.. I mean if you have a bunch of goal celebrations, a few free kicks etc.. You can see how it would get to 7 minutes..

The blame really is City's for not holding on to the draw….but of course people always like to point the finger elsewhere…

hutch wrote:
I think its atypical to have a game with 7 minutes added on…

But that's just it - it wasn't 7 minutes.  It was 5:30 with close to minute celebration after a winning goal 5 seconds short of the whistle.  After the teams reassembled for the kick-off, City kicked it down field and the whistle blew. He can't blow the whistle on a dead ball so he had to wait for the ball to be put back in play.

Either way, give City 7 minutes of added time in the Spring and see if United can score two more goals instead of one….

I don't care if it was 15 minutes of added time…the score was tied so it's benefits both teams. Had shitty scored the go-ahead goal at 90 minutes then 7 (5 1/2 in reality) minutes been added and United scored the EQUALIZER I can understand raised eyebrows, but what was to stop shitty scoring and winning the game at 5.25????? That's the point I'm trying to make.

The time keeping is correct. You can add extra time onto injury time for delay in game. It's not friggin rocket science.

right, 4 minutes of added time doesnt mean the match ends at 94:00 no matter what. 2 goal celebrations and a substitution has got to add at least 2 minutes if not 3

Eesh…

Newcastle Facing Administration, Loss of Points

i'll try to keep this short

i dont know that keegan will win, because i doubt his contract gave him full control over transfers

supposedly ashley has £25m in overdrafts secured, he could defer payment over a few years, and once this is sorted the sale might go through

BUT, fuck kevin keegan. he told us he came back to save the club and yet he goes for the jugular with this lawsuit. absolutly shameful. fans still take his side somehow

I agree…Keegan quit right? Imagine that?? Keegan quitting!!!! In my opinion he should lose all rights to any compensation unless he was sexually harrassed or something, but just quitting because he lacks a spine and sense of commitment is not grounds for compensation in my opinion….I'm sure some lawyer will argue to the contrary but the law is not, and actually hardly ever, an indication of what is right, ethical or moral.

Shoeshine…do you remember a certain old board member who predicted Keegan would quit when he took the job? He's never completed a managerial commitment since he stopped playing…

of course i remember! that makes it sting all the worse, the fact that all of us newcastle supporters defended him against all the naysayers. well, the naysayers were right he walked at the first sign of trouble. i'm sorry, i know he did a lot for us in his first tenure, but we punted top flight football for this guy last season, the prospect of giving up more has me pretty riled up

Saturday, September 26

7:45am Portsmouth vs. Everton (ESPN2HD)
9:30am Stoke vs Man Utd (Set)
10:00am Liverpool v Hull City (FSC)
12:25pm Coca-Cola Championship - Ipswich vs Newcastle (Set)
12:30pm Fulham v Arsenal (FSC)
5:00pm Wigan vs Chelsea (Set)
7:00pm Tottenham v Burnley (FSC)
8:30pm Blackburn vs Aston Villa (Set)


Sunday, Sep 27

11:00am Sunderland v Wolverhampton (FSC)



Almost forgot one…

Monday, Sept 28

2:45pm Manchester City vs. West Ham United (ESPN2HD)

Don't know if anybody caught that Sunderland/Wolves match, but it was easily the most sloppily played but wildly entertaining match I've seen in a while.  It even included and indirect free kick from the 6-yard box.  Haven't seen one of those in a while…

couldnt have been sloppier than ipswich

godsshoeshine wrote:
couldnt have been sloppier than ipswich

Equally as sloppy as both sides were terrible, but because it wasn't so one sided as the Ipswitch match, it made for good fun.  I mean 7 goals between them!

Horrible penalties, horrible penalty appeals and a back pass from 40 yards out that had to be saved by the keeper for the indirect free kick at the 6 yard box.  The only thing that could have made it better is if Keano was still at Sunderland so Keano and Mick could have gone back and forth to see who could make the best "I'm about to either puke or kick somebody's ass" face and then gone into death match!