Granted we weren’t at our best and you could see we were tired after our Europa League exploits. You could also see we were missing some influential players, namely Yohan Cabaye, but defeat was still hard to take even after considering all of that.
What sticks in my throat more than anything is the ineptitude of the referee. I’m still struggling to get my head around it in truth and serious questions need asking about giving officials the help they clearly need when you look at the performances of Mark Halsey and Co in this one. Not only did they miss a knee-high, studs up challenge that has curtailed Massadio Haidara’s season and left the young left-back hospitalised, they also missed a clear handball from Maynor Figueroa which led to Arouna Kone’s late winner.
United started off brightly and took control of the game without really threatening the Wigan goal. However the home side came back into the game quickly and had the first chance of the game courtesy of a freekick which Jordi Gomez blazed over the bar.
Much has been made of our impotency from corners, but it was a chance crafted from a Sylvain Marveaux corner which nearly handed United the lead although Joel Robles was on hand to deal with Steven Taylor’s headed effort and managed to control the ball at the second attempt.
Mathieu Debuchy became the latest name to join what is an ever-increasing injury list when he pulled up with a muscle problem on 14 minutes which forced a reshuffle in defence with Davide Santon moved over to right-back and Massadio Haidara brought on at left-back.
That switch seemed to cause confusion in the away defence which Wigan capitalised on when Callum McManaman crossed into the box for Jean Beausejour who fired underneath Rob Elliot at the back post to give the home side the lead on 18 minutes. Both Santon and Haidara could have done better in truth.
I’m sure Haidara would have atoned for his error and continued to impress like he has done when called upon but just nine minutes after replacing Debuchy his game, and season, was over courtesy of a horror challenge by McManaman. Knee-high, studs up, and missed by the referee who has since apologised for missing the “tackle” according to Alan Pardew. In fairness, it’s not Pardew he should be apologising to…
Another shuffle was required as James Perch came on for Haidara. The former Nottingham Forest man slotted into midfield next to Cheik Tiote with Jonas Gutierrez moved to left-back. Not ideal but there wasn’t a lot more we could do having had two of our three subs used up in the opening 23 minutes of the game.
Shaun Maloney forced a decent save from Rob Elliot ten minutes before the interval after creating space on the edge of the box but that was the final effort at goal of a first half that was poor and ended up being overshadowed by that tackle by McManaman.
United had the first opening of the second period although Papiss Cisse ballooned James Perch’s dinked through ball over the bar. Cisse again fired over moments later when there were four men in the middle and squaring the ball seemed to be the better option.
Newcastle were playing better in the second half but Wigan could have gone two goals up had James McArthur’s 68th minute effort not been deflected wide. Just five minutes later though and United were level after good work from Jonas Gutierrez who fed the ball to Sylvain Marveaux who in turn played in Papiss Cisse. The Senegal striker released Davide Santon with a fine first time pass and the Italian stormed in on goal firing past Robles to score his first goal for United.
It looked as though the points would be shared but yet more poor decisions from the officials put an end to that theory. A late corner saw Maynor Figueroa handball at the near post before Franco Di Santo and Paul Scharner saw efforts at goal blocked. A failure to clear the ball then saw Arouna Kone add the decisive touch as he fired the ball into the roof of the net. Poor defending undoubtedly, but the game should have been stopped way before that with Figueroa’s handball.
We lost, I’ve slept on it and I’m still fuming. I don’t want to blame the referee entirely but he had a huge part to play in things. Yes the first goal was poor defending but seeing tackles like that go unpunished and seeing a colleague stretchered off in such a bad state is going to have an effect. Likewise the second goal was ultimately poor defending but it shouldn’t have mattered as the handball was fairly clear even at full speeds.
We were poor, don’t get me wrong, but I do expect a certain amount of officiating from our officials. Mark Halsey failed in his duty yesterday on a number of levels. He failed to enforce the rules of the game and failed to protect players on the pitch. Next time they start begging for respect you have to wonder just why they actually deserve it.
Onwards and upwards…
Wigan: Joel Robles; Emmerson Boyce, Antolin Alcaraz, Paul Scharner, Maynor Figueroa; Shaun Maloney, James McCarthy, Jordi Gomez, Jean Beausejour; Callum McManaman, Arouna Koné
Subs: Ali Al-Habsi, Ronnie Stam, Gary Caldwell, Angelo Henriquez, James McArthur, Roman Golobart, Franco Di Santo
Newcastle: Rob Elliot; Mathieu Debuchy, Steven Taylor, Mapou Yanga-Mbiwa, Davide Santon; Cheik Tiote, Jonas Gutierrez; Sylvain Marveaux, Moussa Sissoko, Yoan Gouffran; Papiss Cisse
Subs: Steve Harper, Massadio Haidara, James Perch, Vurnon Anita, Dan Gosling, Gabriel Obertan, Shola Ameobi
Attendance: 22,297
Very much so Tommy. The owner is a bloody dinosaur anyway, narrow minded Bigot from what I have seen of past comments.
Interesting find that M. Coupled with the tweet 6 weeks ago I think a picture is starting to emerge of this young man which isn’t a very nice one. Before this game I had a huge amount of respect for Martinez, not so sure anymore as if the player really is a wrong un then he should really be taking a different stance on this, despite him admitting it was a ‘nasty’ challenge.
Moreno(Quote)
DJG @75 totally agree I think the quality of officials and there decision making is sadly lacking, if every incident of the same type resulted in the same punishment there would be no complaints but a good example was yesterday McManaman no punishment , perch get a yellow !!
Tommy Gibb(Quote)
It’s a thankless task being a referee though, can’t imagine why anyone would want to do it. I play Sunday League and it astounds me that these guys turn up week in, week out to take volleys of proper heavy abuse from the players and supporters.
Moreno(Quote)
Moreno – the buggers are paid a fortune in the PL these days!
georgio(Quote)
As I said yesterday I hope that ***** Mcmanaman gets a good ban, but I wasn’t sure if I wished bad on Wigan until I heard what Martinez had to say as I normally had a bit of respect for him. But after watching him on MOTD and now seeing Whelans comments I hope they sink. Lawro and Nevin both seemed to think he knew what he was doing, and I tend to agree but even if he didn’t Martinez and Whelan should have had the balls to admit
Big Dave(Quote)
Dave @80 There is no doubt in my mind the little **** knew exactly what he was doing . The squeal of pain from Massadio was loud enough to overide the crowd noise ,no doubting the distress , yet the lad still got up off the floor to run with the ball ,and you can’t tell me he didn’t know he’d connected with him hard studs up.
M ‘s post @72 is alarming as the lad has previous it seems ,that combined with his Tweet re another game paints a none too pretty picture of him. 👿
As for Dave Whelan saying it was a fair clean tackle 😯 Good god ,the lad was put in hospital ,what does he consider a bad challenge 🙄 He must be the only guy in footie who thinks that and is at direct odds to his own manager ,what an absolute **** .I would be really sad if our owner said that after such a tackle.
KIMTOON(Quote)
That Callum lad has previous. This from a Man city report on a match in 2011
@mcintoshpaul: @MsiDouglas @simonbirdmirror @Scottwilsonecho @CaulkinTheTimes Bit of context to Wigan’s “out of character” comments. http://t.co/F6Q9tOm5mb
3hourswasted(Quote)
Whelan back on SSN trying his hardest to defend THAT tackle ,he protest too much me thinks 🙄
KIMTOON(Quote)
If Wigan didn’t have that final coming up Whelan wouldn’t be makeing such a fuss imo.
KIMTOON(Quote)
Dave – yip, Moreno earlier spoke to rivalry between clubs born of minor incidents and if it were just the tackle I’d have probably agreed. But having heard Martinez not only on the tackle but the handball incident as well and then Whelan today 😯 **** um!!. To say its out of character is one thing – and I’d expect that TBH, but to say it was a fair challenge is just a disgrace.
I hope they go down now and I hope they do a Wolves – set of cheating bastards!!!
Sharpy17(Quote)
Kim – I keep meaning to ask how Lewis is getting on?
Sharpy17(Quote)
Sharpy I understand that part of the managers job is to protect his players but you can admit it was a bad challenge without saying that it was done with malice. I just hope now that wigan get what they deserve. I Kimtoon pose a question earlier > Moreno ,Would you cheer off Tiote or anyone else if you seen him do that
I wouldn’t cheer even one of our own for doing that and I have been vocal in the past when Tiote has went in to tackles way OTT, same as with Cabaye aswell there is no place in the game for that, funny I can remember a few saying to me that I should get behind our own even after a bad tackle but as I said to them I would be fuking fuming if another player done it on one of ours, so if you excuse our players from it then you can’t really moan when someone does it on ours.
Big Dave(Quote)
3HW @82
*******, Gai Assulin was one of the young players I had in one of my first FIFA careers, years ago. Was one of the best young wingers around a few years ago before City got him, plays in Spain now I think.
Andymag(Quote)
Sharpy@86 ,Not bad mate ,he’s been well ,bit peeky at the mo ,not sure why just off colour for some reason ,but his sinus probs are much improved since the op thanks.
Dave@87. yes I have many a time seen you lambast Tiote and others for reckless tackles . I’m with you on that ,no player from any team needs to do it . A fair hard challenge is one thing , a career threatening studs up assault .which is what it is ,is another .
Whelan is just compounding matters really ,he needs to stfu ,banging on about how good and fair the FA are and how good Halsey is ffs .Talk about trying to butter someone up.Oh and how he hopes the lads back playing next week 🙄
KIMTOON(Quote)
Dave – dead right, Moyes did it with Fellani afew weeks back when they played Stoke I think and he head butted and had a few other run ins with Shawcross. Moyes made it clear that he wouldn’t condone things like that. Instead Martinez used the old, I haven’t seen it line – ****!.
Regarding Morenos comments about the fans cheering, I think they were just supporting a kid on his debut who (asides from the tackle) had a pretty good game to be fair, he was causing Haidara problems before he wiped him out.
Sharpy17(Quote)
I’ve been banging on for ages about referees being both too old and too fat. This is a young man’s game played at the top speed of young men. It takes young men to referee it. I’d love to know who selects these referees and on what basis. If they must use old farts, they should be helped to the full with technology.
I can’t believe Whelan’s attitude. Complete idiot!
Blackley & Brownlie(Quote)
Kim did you get your probs with the blog sorted yesterday ? I didn’t stick around after the game yesterday as I just couldn’t be bothered to listen to some of the ***** I knew would come out, so I never seen if you got back on.
Sharpy I like Moyes and I was pleased with the way he handled that
Big Dave(Quote)
“I just don’t get this “we were poor”. No we weren’t . There was much of the game when we were excellent. After reading that from Tonytoon @ 10, I feel I must be a reet crouton who needs to give his heed a shake.
There’s no accounting for judgment on what a person’s seen, as Dave Whelan has shown. Sorry Tontytoon, I’m not putting you in Whelan’s bracket, but just saw a completely different game. That was a typical, long standing, NUFC away performance and I can’t see when it’s ever going to end, no matter how many new, top quality recruits we get. It’s depressing! 😥
Sorry for being the monger of doom again, but I’m clearly in the small minority, and so always feel a strong urge to say something after reading so much positivity. Nobody else says it for me so that I can get by without commenting. I just find it incredible that the mighty NUFC go into games against the likes of Wigan thinking we’ll do well to get a draw and being satisfied that all is fine if we do. Is this how far our expectations have fallen? 😕
Blackley & Brownlie(Quote)
still not over the whole show,there manager has had a right go at players that have tackled his players in the past hes as bad as the player imo,the last player he “done” was in calibers after it,would love the t*ats go down and never come back up 👿 👿
icedog(Quote)
Kim – hopefully no more than a seasonal cold with all this **** weather – hopefully not man flu tho 😕 . Pleased his op has started to show improvement tho. Sounded like yous had a rotten time of it directly after and during the op so pleased its calmed down a bit you and him of course 😉
B&B – I think it’s technology that’s needed to be honest mate. Even a young ref is going to miss things. Personally I’d like to see a combo of rugby and tennis. Rugby where the the ref can consult the video ref if he’s undecided and Tennis when teams could challenge a decision – 1 per game or 1 per half something like that.
Like CC rightly said earlier, your probably talking no longer than 30 secs maybe alittle longer for the more difficult decisions. But it would have 2 ‘pros’ 1. Better refereeing and 2. An improvement in player discipline. If players knew they were being watched and their action could be reviewed I bet Rodgers would have a better grip on Suarez and Ferdinand wouldn’t have kicked Torres as he passed him the other week.
The FA wouldn’t do it tho coz they enjoy mulling these decisions over and playing god.
Sharpy17(Quote)
Ice I agree with you mate, and for him to say it wasn’t in his nature because he’s a lovely lad well tell that to man city when he done the same to one of their younguns which resulted in the coaches etc getting at it
Big Dave(Quote)
Sharpy I don’t agree with the teams having a challenge but I do agree with the Rugby ex and I think goal line tech is needed and that should be it sorted, oh and I think they should have ones to look over videos and any player diving/cheating should be like one yellow and 2 yellows get you a red,as I hate the cheating side of the game
Big Dave(Quote)
@ 72, interesting article. A very short career and already two players stretchered off due to disgusting challenges. How many more?
kneel before zod(Quote)
Dave – without a challenge that tackle yesterday would still have been missed. Without a challenge a ref could give penalty he’s confident of and not consult the video ref and there’d still be a wrong decision. With both the video ref and decision challenges it should eradicate any and all mistakes which would provide consistence for all teams.
Sharpy17(Quote)
Sharpy – I agree: even a young ref will miss things. However, to employ this shower of fat, grey haired, amateurish old farts is a complete joke.
For far too long football has been hijacked by conservative, reactionary forces. Football is their fiefdom. They don’t want to see big questions involving major issues up for change, or it might throw the spotlight on them and their legitimacy. Football should have introduced your suggested changes many years ago.
Blackley & Brownlie(Quote)
Anyone else think it would be a good idea to try and get afew x players in to refffing.
B & B i agree with you about the performances. why we sit so deep against teams i will never know. every attacker we have on the pitch has defensive duties in getting behind the ball and i just done understand it. we sit back on the edge of our box and then when we win it back we just have no one to give it out to. its shocking we should we pressing teams like wigan. and the football hasnt improved to much why tiote keeps getting a game i dont know hes terrible.
Alex(Quote)
I see Ashley has been scouting Aubemeyang, and we’re now favourites for RVW. Either signing would be good, would prefer the former though.
Andymag(Quote)
After Wigan beat Everton in the FA Cup, I and most of the country were behind them and their style of play, after yesterday and the subsequent bizarre statements coming out of that club, the opposite will now happen and I sincerely hope they get relegated and get hammered in the cup.
Disgusting horrible win at any cost bunch of cheating twats.
Robert(Quote)
Good to see Campbell getting an u19 national call-up, will be in the u21s soon enough. Caulker getting ahead of Taylor and Shawcross is disgusting and just shows that Hodgson doesn’t have the balls to choose players that aren’t in the ‘big teams’.
Andymag(Quote)
Robert
They’ll likely get into the final as they play millwall next, who they’d play in the final I don’t know but I hope Wigan get destroyed as Bradford were.
Andymag(Quote)
Sharpy but the video ref should be there for incidents like that without the team having to challenge it ❓
On the ref and lino missing decisions like that it’s about time officials were held to account for bringing the game into disrepute 😉
Big Dave(Quote)
Sharpy I meant to add if the did do the team having 1 challenge only then we would only have been able to challenge the tackle and wouldn’t have been able to challenge the handball one
Big Dave(Quote)
While we’re at it, this red card/yellow card business should be up for debate. Someone commits a foul against you, and they get a yellow card, which, when they’re suspended, advantages your rivals not you. It’s absurd. I would like to see them trial a sin bin for yellow card offences. That would spice things up.
Blackley & Brownlie(Quote)
Someone in the pub said to me that the yellow card system in Rugby would be perfect. Off for 10 minutes, review the situation and allow them back on if it doesn’t warrant a red. That was before this tackle watching 6 nations.
Dave, I know where you and Kim are coming from and I fully agree, I don’t condone that from anyone, our own or not but if you were both sat in a stadium I am afraid I think you would be in the minority…rightly or wrongly.
Moreno(Quote)
Well, Wheelan is a bit of a cnt isn’t he? I hope he and his club rot now tbh
Newkie(Quote)
Moreno in the stadium I agree with you that we would be in the minority, as it’s a bit of a pack mentality that you try to protect your own and I fully understand that same as when De Jong tackled Benny it was only natural that the Citeh fans would try to defend De jong by saying there was no intent etc, but I was quiet surprised and pleased after that game by the many Citeh fans that admitted it was bad. But I still say that if one of our players do it then they deserve everything they get .
Newkie we don’t often agree but i’m glad you see it the same as me 😉
Big Dave(Quote)
Dave,
I seem the remember Martinez having a moan about a Suarez tackle that went unpunished too. Now he is saying ‘it’s a contact sport’ so he doesn’t expect his boy t get a ban 🙄
Moreno(Quote)
Alex @ 101 – Yeah, we should be going to sides like Wigan and playing to our strengths, not trying to nullify theirs to our own detriment. Let our defenders defend; they don’t need other players to double up and hold their hand.
It would help if defenders stopped bloody ball watching and picked up the only man or two in the middle who can possibly re-direct the ball goalwards. Admittedly, this has improved since Tayls returned.
I’m all for midfielders tracking back with players, but there’s no need to get back en masse for the sake of it. If you leave two players on the half way line, it ties up at least two of their players – but usually four!
Tiote’s not playing the best at the moment, but only Taylor, Cabaye and Elliot are IMO so I’m reluctant to criticise him in particular. I tend to save my criticism for the complete duck egg that is Shola. Unfortunately, I don’t think Pards’ game plan will ever get the best out of the players.
Blackley & Brownlie(Quote)
Moreno as I said during the game that I liked and had respect for Martinez and wouldn’t hold it against Wigan if they ( He ) came out after the game and admitted it was a bad tackle, but he disappointed me and I have no respect for him now and I hope that Wigan get their just deserts for it .
Big Dave(Quote)
Dave says, “On the ref and lino missing decisions like that it’s about time officials were held to account for bringing the game into disrepute”
The officials bring the game into disrepute when they walk on the pitch with their little stumpy legs, grey hair and expanded waistlines. They’re an embarrassment to the sport. I don’t follow Rugby that much, just the internationals occassionally, but now I think about it, I can only recall trim, fit and youngish refs.
Blackley & Brownlie(Quote)
I don’t believe in video replays for this sort of thing. And I don’t blame the ref here. Linesman should be accountable, and FA absolutely must take action.
Who gives a tosh if he “isn’t that sort of player” (even if the link posted earlier suggests that first team debut down and he’s already threatened 2 careers), it was a ridiculously dangerous foul. We see awful fouls all the time, we on the blog were first to lay into Anita when he made a twatty challenge on Thursday, but it was in no way as stupidly dangerous has this lads “tackle”.
Fucking hell, it’s easily in the worst 5 challenges I’ve ever seen.
Dave Whelan is a cowardly disgrace.
The only allowance I’m giving to Martinez is that it was immediately after the match and he may genuinely not have seen the replays yet.
SolanosTrumpet(Quote)
B+B,
Quick cold shower now fella? 😉
Moreno(Quote)
I find it hard to condemn Wigan and all its fans for the sins of the owner and manager.
Blackley & Brownlie(Quote)
Dave @92 ,Yes I did get back on around 6.30 /7 ish ,just tried and it worked o.k. Very strange though ,everytime I pressed add comment I went straight to a page for Tiger Technologies who said I had been sent there for exceeding my comment allowance of 12 per hour 😆 .Thing is it’s for people who set up blogs like Toonsy so none of the trouble shooting stuff was applicable to a poster only someone who runs a site 🙄 . All I could do was phone our Hazel and get her to post for me to let Toonsy know I had an access issue. she also sent an email to Tiger wether that or Toonsy rectified it I have no idea. I know JJ and Prem also had a bit of trouble for a wee while.
KIMTOON(Quote)
B & B, even after they gave the thug a standing ovation when subbed?
Robert(Quote)
Blackley & Brownlie @91 😆 😆
Can you also explain why the average age for popes is about 112 🙂
Munich Mag(Quote)
Moreno – The thought of the fit, trim, youngish rugby refs giving you a tingle in your undies there, fella?
Blackley & Brownlie(Quote)
Big D@114, Martinez can forget all about sending his rezzie over to SJP in the next few years. I suppose that just leaves Laudrup and Zola for the toon job. 😆
must admit, for an “exciting up and coming young manager” I wasn’t particularly impressed by Martinez’s tactics at the weekend.
Munich Mag(Quote)
Moreno @ 117 yeah I think your right there 😀 I have watched a few games of egg chaser’s but I can’t remember taking much interest in the ref’s 😯
ST I find it hard to believe that Martinez hadn’t seen it again on a replay, as surely he would have said that ? and I can’t remember him saying that he hadn’t seen it again 😕 . As for blaming the ref I think in general people are pointing the finger at the ref and the ref’s assistant and just saying the ref to cover both, I agree that he was in a bad spot for the tackle but what about the handball
Big Dave(Quote)
Munich @ 121 – It’s a wierd one, in it. Without suggesting a global conspiracy theory that the Kid would ridicule, I can’t explain it. 😆
Blackley & Brownlie(Quote)
I’m pretty sure Danny Simpson will aquit himself spendidly at right back once we find him. Santon back to left back and it’s the same old same old.
Our midfield need to start firing again, they were a bit powder puff going forward yesterday.
Munich Mag(Quote)
Dave – if it was done in the same way as rugby the video ref only contributes when called upon by the referee, so the tackle may still have went unpunished if we couldn’t challenge it. I was purposing a challenge per half so the handball could have still been challenged 😉
Like I say, those coupled with B&Bs younger fitter refs and linesman should mean nowt was missed and if a ref had a video ref to fall back on I very much doubt many challenges would actually get used.
It’s all opinion anyway coz based on how much of a **** on getting goal line technology introduced has been, I don’t ever see any of these changes being brought in – including Morenos yellow card suggestion which I’d also be in favour of.
Mental to think the difference in wealth between sports like rugby and tennis and yet they are miles ahead when it comes to this type of thing.
Sharpy17(Quote)
@Dave Think he hadn’t seen the replay yet. Yeah that’s fair dos. The ref had a shocker all game but I don’t think he could give a red if he didn’t see it, even if it was obvious what had happened. Read an interesting point earlier about the shiteness of linos earlier. They are supposed to be assistant referees, they hardly ever get involved in actual decision making despite having often better views.
SolanosTrumpet(Quote)
Dave – You don’t fool me, fella. You’ve noticed those hard buns in the tight shorts just like the next man!
Blackley & Brownlie(Quote)
Dave @ 124
Exactly Dave. Surprised B+B could clearly visualise them 😯
Moreno(Quote)
What riled me was the lad made no attempt to go over to Massadio and say sorry ,he just stood there hopeing he wouldn’t get booked . I saw a comment from a poster on a sky comment forum early on, it was posted from a guy called ADAMNUFC ,he states ” I was actually in the away end yesterday and we could hear the scream from the poor lad at the other end of the pitch.”
This is exactly what I was on about befor , Callum must of realised the harm he’d done yet he got up and continued to run off with the ball ,it’s cowardly and nasty .He’s a shithouse of the highest order. Whelan and co are defending him like mad cause they need him for that final ,the old man looked positively desperate earlier on SSN,pathetic display.
KIMTOON(Quote)
Is there any conclusive word on Haidara & Debuchy’s injuries? I haven’t seen anything.
Fans Should Own The Club(Quote)
Moreno & Dave ,I’ve never seen a Rugby ref who wasn’t fit/ripped ,speaking from a female point of view that is 😉
KIMTOON(Quote)
Kimtoon@131, I agree 100%. The crouton knew what he did and showed absolutely no remorse. He was probably **** scared that he would get sent off so carried on playing, and the bulls knacker refereeing the game never batted an eyelid.
I’m surprised that there is no aftermatch regarding the FA, has this all been brushed under the table ?
Munich Mag(Quote)
On a serious note, live football could also learn from rugby in that the director makes sure the cameras pan to the crowd every time the ball goals dead, and pick out the pretty young ladies. 😀
Munich, can you also explain why, the split second the young ladies see themselves on camera, smile and wave, the camera moves off. Jolly irritating! 👿
Blackley & Brownlie(Quote)
Fans ,last I heard mid PM ,they were still waiting ,I know Cabaye is out for France he has a bad thigh ,least it ain’t his groin or hammy like . No idea on Deb and Massa thou.
KIMTOON(Quote)
FSOTC
Been refreshing the club’s website all day and nowt. Debuchy went to French national team but Pards expects he’ll be sent back hyem so not too bad. Possibly fit for City game.
Moreno(Quote)
B&B has been brought up on Les Kellet in his gold lame thong roughing it out with Johnny Kwango. Say no more … 😉 😆
Munich Mag(Quote)
MM 😆 😆 😆
Moreno(Quote)
B&B@135, regarding the young ladies, it’s probably because the camera man is a crouton and someone needs to give his heed a shaking.
Anyone know where Danny Simpson is, he seems to have gone AWOL, we need him now most probably 🙁
Munich Mag(Quote)
B&B @135 ,I’m guessing your going to love the next world cup ,cameras will have a field day there , always lot’s of pretty ladies with lots of bits on display supporting Brazil 😆
KIMTOON(Quote)
I think we’re seeing some of Pardew’s man management letting the knackered Frenchies join up with the national team, only to be sent back home to recuperate.
Munich Mag(Quote)
MM , Simmo is lost under Tulisa’s duvet apparently 😉
KIMTOON(Quote)
Either I have missed it all, or are NUFC keeping an extreme low profile when it comes down to the Wigan tackle ? At the end of the day, Carver was going completely radges and got sent off ffs, normally Pardew isn’t a shrinking violet either but seems to have buttoned it big time today. Normally the Chronicle would be full of stuff, but things seem to be really quiet.
Munich Mag(Quote)
Kimtoon, I hope she’s gonna let him out soon, cos we need him, and he can’t be going losing too much weight 😉
Munich Mag(Quote)
We can play Anita at RBif needs be ,he was alright there last time ,then Santon can go back to LB .
KIMTOON(Quote)
Kim – Good point. 😛 But I’m too old to be wishing away the days. 😯
Munich – Simpson – last seen roughing it out with Tulisa in her gold lame thong.
Blackley & Brownlie(Quote)
For some perspective, I showed the “tackle” to a Spanish friend & soccer fan and his response was “AY, mi madre!! Banned for life…”
Fans Should Own The Club(Quote)
MM–maybe they’re laying low till it’s reviewed and, hopefully, the kid is banned for a good, long while.
Why not ban a player for the time it will take for the victim to recover?
Fans Should Own The Club(Quote)
mm , I think the club are being very dignified about it ,just sitting back while the wider football world condems the tackle. Meanwhile Whelan and Martinez and the lad Callum look spineless and cowardly in comparrison ,I am still yet to hear of an official apology from the lad .Maybe it hasn’t been forthcoming due to it being seen as an admmision of guilt , either way it’s shamefull as meant or not if you inflicted such an injury surely you’d want to say sorry 😕 .
KIMTOON(Quote)