Cheik Tiote loses red card appeal.

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Cheik Tiote
Tiote loses appeal.
Well it didn’t take long for the news that Cheik Tiote’s appeal against the red card he received at Stevenage has been overturned.

I must say that I’m not surprised that The FA have decided not to rescind the red card, but I am surprised that they didn’t increase the length of the ban to four games.

This now means that Tiote will be missing for the weekend trip to Sunderland as well as the matches against Tottenham and Fulham. He will return to the first-team against Arsenal when they visit St James’ Park on February 5th.

It’s a huge blow to lose Tiote, but it was bound to happen at some point, in fact it already did earlier on the season after he clocked up five yellow cards. Obviously now he is going to miss another three games, and if, or when is perhaps more appropriate, he recieves two more yellow cards he will be missing for another two games.

The merits of the red card can be debated until our faces turn blue. Yes he got the ball, but he left the geround in the process which means he has no control over his body. I suspect this is what The FA will have considered. Like it or not, but I think it was probably the right call.

The problem now is how do we replace him? Tiote has been outstanding for us so far this season, and replacing him with the limited resources at our disposal won’t be easy. Alan Smith could slot back into the team, although the thought of that fills me with dread to be honest.

I guess one way around it is to play Joey Barton in the centre of mdfield and play Wayne Routledge out wide, although Routledge has hardly pulled up any trees this season.

It would be too much of a risk, in my opinion, to play Dan Gosling. The severity of his injury means that he will have to be 100% before he gets anywhere near the first team, and although he is scheduled to play in a behind closed doors friendly this week, I would say that this Sunday will come far too early for him to be considered.

The real issue has to be ironing out this streak that Tiote has in his game. He isn’t a dirty player by any stretch of the imagination, but he does need to be a bit more intelligent with his tackles which will hopefully hep him to avoid buidling up as many yellow cards and suspensions in the future.

That aspect of his game is something that can be worked on, and it needs to be if he is to be available for as many games as possible. Some of his bookings have been undeserved, but at other times he has been lucky to stay on the pitch. A cracking player, and a bargain to boot, but it still doesn’t mean that he can’t improve.

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237 thoughts on “Cheik Tiote loses red card appeal.”

  3. Ice did you see the post I left for ye

    Big Dave
    Posted January 11, 2011 at 9:41 PM
    Ice I am sorry for winding you up and calling your dog a boxer 😥 can you find it in your heart to forgive me 😳

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  8. DAVE batty says i can forgive you if you donate to his charity, its;
    “make batty a millionaire fund.com”

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  15. 4411 do you know thats a bannible offence pinching some 1s nick 😆 you would never catch me doing that 😉

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  20. my knees are fuking thobbing and I allready have holes in them and my skin is all crazed 😥
    I’ll not wind the top dog up again that for sure

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  21. BATTY ill always share with you m8,its these greedy gits i dont like,but ime not gan call richie even though he can eat a whole belly-buster to his-sel

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  23. Ice I guess I will just have to hope while your lying in your scratcher tonight that you will find it in your heart then to forgive me for I have sinned 😀
    catch you’s tomorrow

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  29. see ya lads away mesel…..Ice I might pay a visit to Gordonios for a bacon butty later in the week, cant cope wi the belly busters these days

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  36. rich taht was me tonight 😆 but diffrent email on workys ,i have dozens m8 ,but some 1 has been posting under toonsy

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  37. 😆 I thought so 🙂 ……but it thru me when ya didnt slag the villa fans off 😆 ……….reet defo away noo. cyas

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  40. Nor Cal – If/when you get on… Remember yesterday you asked about the readership and where from? I think I can sort that, but in the meantime this site has been read in 32 different countries so far 🙂

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  42. what’s the latest then ladies?

    been out for a drink (town is full of c unts) so not sure what the latest is on Larsson?

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  44. He played tonight ILM so he wasn’t up at the toon today 😕 No idea on anything more than that though

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  47. Really off topic !!!

    I know some of you guys live in US
    Me and my friend r considering to go to New Mexico to work in spring
    so I have a question to ask
    What it like in NM ??
    Are the people nice ??
    specially in Taos, Albuquerque and Clines Corners
    R really suburb or kindna likes city ??
    or there is just nothing except from desert 🙄

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  55. Mad are saying Larssons saying put, Im not sure they have got any evidence other than him playing last night like…

    Red faces for Pardew and fat Mick if were snubbed by a player whos about to lose his place in their team… 😳

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  56. BATTY ime always awake m8,giz some gen,never saw my contact in village this morning,the lepracorn will still be under his rock 🙂

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  63. just being bitter,you would think he would want to help toosny out after all the work he did for .org,just shows you what type of person he is..

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  68. gone very quiet on transfer front 😥 hoping toonsy can dig sumit up,this bloody net keeps playing up like that dave only wo rking part-time, 👿

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