This afternoon will see us take on Chelsea at Stamford Bridge for a match that, if Newcastle can upset the form book and win, would see the Toon propelled into eighth place in the league table if other results go our way. However, on the flip side of that, Chelsea will be playing for pride after losing their grip on the title yesterday and will be looking to make sure that they can nail their colours to second place in the league and avoid an early start to next season by gaining automatic qualification to the Champions League.
Now I hate being downbeat on our chances ahead of a match, but common sense would suggest that Newcastle would be fortunate to come away from Stamford Bridge with anything to show for their efforts. The bookies have Chelsea as overwhelming favourites, the form book is tipped very much in favour of the home side, we don’t usually fare to well at Stamford Bridge and we have nearly a full team of players out injured or out through a self imposed suspension.
My main hope for today is that we can see a solid and committed performance from our lads. I don’t want to see us not turn up again like we did at Anfield a couple of weeks ago. No less than 100% today please. If the lads give it everything they have then they can leave Stamford Bridge with their heads held high – win, lose, or draw.
The game is scheduled for a 1:30pm kick-off and will be broadcast on Sky Sports 1 here in the UK. However, if you can’t get that either because you don’t have Sky or because you are based outside of the UK then the good news is that there is a whole host of overseas channels that will also be broadcasting the match, which means that the chances of a stream are fairly good. Once again, if you stumble across a good stream please feel free to hoy a link to it in the comments section below.
That’s about it I think. The match preview, if you haven’t already read it, is here and the team news will appear below as and when I can get my grubby little mits on it.
Howay the lads!
Team news…
Chelsea: Petr Cech, Branislav Ivanovic ,Alex, John Terry, Ashley Cole, Ramires, Frank Lampard, Josh McEachran, Yossi Benayoun, Nicolas Anelka, Fernando Torres.
Subs: Ross Turnbull, David Luiz, Essien, Didier Drogba, John Obi Mikel, Florent Malouda, Paulo Ferreira.
Newcastle: Tim Krul, Danny Simpson, Steven Taylor, Fabricio Coloccini, Jose Enrique, Jonas Gutierrez, Ryan Taylor, Joey Barton, Shane Ferguson, Shola Ameobi, Peter Lovenkrands.
Subs: Ole Soderberg, James Tavernier, Alan Smith, Kazenga LuaLua, Sammy Ameobi, Shefki Kuqi, Nile Ranger.
Shola = built like a **** house but solid as a wendy house!
Toon Chicken(Quote)
skills raylor 😉
Toon Chicken(Quote)
Lampard should get booked the c@nt
Big Dave(Quote)
Thats what you get for saying your best CM in england and slagging off lampard 😆
SpencerTheToon(Quote)
Bartons been great
AndrewNUFC(Quote)
played simmo
Toon Chicken(Quote)
Howay lads!!!! Getting tasty this
Toon Chicken(Quote)
Jonas looks to be struggling a bit ? or is it just me 😕
Big Dave(Quote)
Fergie is playing class!!
AndrewNUFC(Quote)
send him off
Toon Chicken(Quote)
come on one of their players has to go
NewkieBrown(Quote)
this time raylor 🙂
Toon Chicken(Quote)
Go on Raylor
AndrewNUFC(Quote)
Newkie I hope they dont go down to 10 as teams always seem to rally more when the’re down to 10 😥
Big Dave(Quote)
or this time 🙂
Toon Chicken(Quote)
Another Taylor bullet 🙄
toonsy(Quote)
Lovenkrands and Ferguson look identical from behind!
pearceet(Quote)
What three subs to bring on for Chelski. That’s no fair
Toby le Rhone(Quote)
guti been very involved…like him in that 10 role! and can raylor stop wastin our set pieces please
buddy(Quote)
bloody hell 🙁
AndrewNUFC(Quote)
Dave…..Arsenal didn’t 😉
richietoon(Quote)
here come the big guns
NewkieBrown(Quote)
Who’s these Chelsea subs like – any good? 😆
Toon Chicken(Quote)
Anyone thinks the same with me.
Geez,this game is full of Couter-Attacking and tackles.
Great match to watch. 😈
AngelOfDeath(Quote)
come on Joey 😆
Big Dave(Quote)
Our free kicks are awful…
toonsy(Quote)
Probs best to stick with Raylor on them free kicks. Barton’s been doing that all season.
Toon Chicken(Quote)
Pearcreet
The difference is when one gets the ball he knows what to do with it and the other is Danish
Toby le Rhone(Quote)
AoD – this game has everything that’s great about English footy.
Give me this ower that ***** they play in Spain any day of the week.
Toon Chicken(Quote)
Tell you what, Chelsea brought on some big guns there 😕
toonsy(Quote)
Drogba to Newcastle? 😆
AngelOfDeath(Quote)
I think its time to give Strolla and Lovens a rest
Big Dave(Quote)
Lua Lua!
AndrewNUFC(Quote)
well done fergie, quality showing from the lad!
NewkieBrown(Quote)
Ancelotti and Wenger are starring in a porno. It’s called 2 guys, no cup!!
pearceet(Quote)
Toonsy hopefully their firing Blanks 😉
Big Dave(Quote)
let lua lua take our free kicks now!
NewkieBrown(Quote)
Well played fergie.
toonsy(Quote)
Lua Lua coming on.
Yeh!
headless chicken coming on.
AngelOfDeath(Quote)
Aye Toby! Lovenkrands has had a decent game imo tho
pearceet(Quote)
proper love in with pardew and drogba when he was coming on.. ❗
hitman(Quote)
Ameobi needs to come off, he’s hardly in the game, and when he is, he’s on his backside
frysian(Quote)
It’s like Shola hasnt even been on the pitch, its not like hes being out classed hes not even trying.
AndrewNUFC(Quote)
Come on Lads keep going
Big Dave(Quote)
I think its only a matter of time before Chelsea score….. 🙁
toonsy(Quote)
FFS Toonsy dont say that 👿
Big Dave(Quote)
Not long to go haway lads
AndrewNUFC(Quote)
Whatever happens, it’s been a fighting performance which I think most of us would have settled for before ko 😀
richietoon(Quote)
toonsy – you’ve been hanging around with Stu for too long
Toon Chicken(Quote)
who is barton trying to through ball to. 😕
AngelOfDeath(Quote)
we do look as if we’re starting to get tired 🙁 but come on Lads keep going only another 15 mins 😉
Big Dave(Quote)
Krul has to be number 1 I rekon next season, another great game.
AndrewNUFC(Quote)
Dave – Shola looked knackered after the warm up 😆
Toon Chicken(Quote)
Richie @ 198 your right and when you consider the start we got of too 😉
Big Dave(Quote)
***** toonsy,we are holding owa own m8
hitman(Quote)
Agree with rich at 198 🙂
toonsy(Quote)
We cannae let Jose go. Tell him he has to see his contract out
Toby le Rhone(Quote)
kin ell Jose – what was that!
Toon Chicken(Quote)
well played Lover
Toon Chicken(Quote)
Hahahah Shola number two
AndrewNUFC(Quote)
I just think we deserve something from the game
Big Dave(Quote)
COME ON SAMMY!
NewkieBrown(Quote)
jesus as if one wasnt bad enough
buddy(Quote)
***** 🙁
Toon Chicken(Quote)
FFS!
AndrewNUFC(Quote)
scratch comment 205 🙄
hitman(Quote)
Aoembi brothers on pitch. 😯
AngelOfDeath(Quote)
Toby..he’s defo off cos his contract runs out this summer……according to the dipsh!t commentators on my stream
Oh **** 😥
richietoon(Quote)
why’s Pardew taking everyone off that’s having a decent game but not Shola?
frysian(Quote)
They do say never make a change when defending a corner.
Krul at fault though.
Stuart79(Quote)
FFS what was Krul doing 👿
Big Dave(Quote)
Well it was coming, but krul should have stayed on his line.
Still, I’m not too gutted about as I think we’ve played spot on today and gave it our all even if we end up losing by more
toonsy(Quote)
Howay lads – don’t give up – we can still get summit from this!!!
Toon Chicken(Quote)
Shame for tim as he has been brilliant otherwise
Moreno(Quote)
Their fans leaving early on last game of the season, not even staying to clap them off, disgrace.
SpencerTheToon(Quote)