Sticky Toffee Puddings! Everton 3-2 Newcastle

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Lukaku celebrates
Lukaku celebrates
Another game, another 3-2 defeat and another defensive horror show ensured United left Merseyside empty handed on Monday night.

An awful firs half performance put the game beyond doubt before the interval although Newcastle very nearly, and against any odds, managed to salvage something from the match.

However if you start a game in the Premier League so poorly and give up three soft goals away from home then you’re going to struggle and ultimately that was our downfall. Alan Pardew will shoulder a lot of the blame but some of the players in that side, especially defensively, should take a good, hard look at themselves and ponder if they are doing even the basics correctly.

The home side grabbed the lead after just five minutes through on-loan Chelsea striker Romelu Lukaku who was on hand to apply the finish past Tim Krul who was left with little to no chance of stopping it.

Lukaku had a hand in the second goal also as Fabricio Coloccini and Mapou Yanga-Mbiwa seemingly just ran away from the Belgian striker allowing him to tee up Ross Barklay who found the back of the net midway through the first half.

An awful defensive display was rounded off in some style on 37 minutes as Lukaku added a third after a long punt upfield from Tim Howard somehow eluded both Fabricio Coloccini and Tim Krul allowing the former Anderlecht man the privilege of dispatching the ball into an unguarded net.

Awful. Plain awful. All United could muster in return was a tame effort from Hatem Ben Arfa which Tim Howard comfortably pushed away and in truth the away side could probably count themselves rather fortunate to be just the three goals behind.

Half-time: Everton 3-0 Newcastle

A double change from Alan Pardew saw the hapless Hatem Ben Arfa and miserable Mapou Yanga-Mbiwa replaced by Yohan Cabaye and Mike Williamson respectively, and it was a double substitution which paid almost immediate dividends.

First Yoan Gouffran hit the inside of the post and moments later United managed to end Everton’s defensive robustness and score at Goodison Park in 687 minutes of Premier League action, and it wasn’t a bad goal either from Yohan Cabaye who beat Tim Howard with a screamer from outside the penalty area.

Loic Remy could have added another soon after but he was denied by Phil Jagielka before Cabaye wasted a chance from a free-kick by firing into the wall.

With time running out it looked as though Cabaye’s strike would prove to be merely a consolation, but in the closing seconds of normal time Mathieu Debuchy nodded the ball back to Loic Remy who prodded the ball home to make injury time very interesting indeed.

And the comeback was very nearly complete in stoppage time as Remy collected the ball on the edge of the penalty area before firing just over Tim Howard’s crossbar in what was to be the last real chance of the match.

Full-time: Everton 3-2 Newcastle

As I said at the start, if you give so much away so easily you’ll always struggle and that was the case here. I’m heartened by the second half performance which, in fairness, couldn’t have been any worse than the one witnessed in the first, but ultimately it meant nothing.

Unconfirmed reports surfaced after the match suggesting that Alan Pardew tendered his resignation although I wouldn’t know if it’s true and I very much doubt the people who started it all off know if it’s true either. However, much longer and I don’t think Alan Pardew will get the choice to leave.

Howay the lads!

Everton: Tim Howard, Leighton Baines, Sylvain Distin, Phil Jagielka, Seamus Coleman, Kevin Mirallas, James McCarthy, Gareth Barry, Leon Osman, Ross Barkley, Romelu Lukaku

Subs: Joel Robles, John Heitinga, Nikica Jelavic, Arouna Kone, Gerard Deulofeu, Steven Naismith, John Stones

Newcastle: Tim Krul; Mathieu Debuchy, Mapou Yanga-Mbiwa, Fabricio Coloccini, Davide Santon; Vurnon Anita, Cheik Tiote, Moussa Sissoko; Yoan Gouffran, Loic Remy, Hatem Ben Arfa

Subs: Rob Elliot, Paul Dummett, Mike Williamson, Yohan Cabaye, Gabriel Obertan, Sammy Ameobi, Papiss Cisse

Attendance: 33,495

P.S: Apologies for the delay in getting this out. I’ve been working odd shifts starting at midnight!

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321 thoughts on “Sticky Toffee Puddings! Everton 3-2 Newcastle”

  1. I have to say I would love to have Glen Hoddle as manager over Pardew. There are several others as we have discussed before. We have set up some pretty nasty road blocks to getting one of them though. Can anyone really imagine trying to work with Kinnear and Ashley? How does Carr do it? He must listen to the Newcastle news and grind his teeth poor man.

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  2. That’s it from me for a while. Don’t want to overstay my welcome. Will continue to read with interest though.

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  3. Mark/G2 – I think Zaha is good pals with Sammi through the U21s. He certainly looked a decent player at Palace, but I’m not sure I’d be keen on loaning him.
    Remy is different coz there’s a good chance his loan will turn into a permanent move. But I don’t see Zaha joining permanent.

    G2 – re Benny, I think he has defo upped his workrate. I don’t want it to sound like I hold him solely responsible for our defeat against Hull or Everton. He did have a poor game against Everton, but he wasn’t the only one. He was heavily marked against Hull, but IMO I think he could have done to stop their 1st and 3rd goal.
    When you look at those goals again you’ll see he’s tracked back to within 10yrds of Brady for the first and whoever put the cross in for the 3rd. But then he just kinda stops. If he’s gonna track that far back, then he should be breaking his neck to stop the goal or cross – otherwise, what’s the point?!.
    I think the Ballon d’Or is well out of his reach, but player of the season, PL player of the season and the French national team are well within his grasp. But he’d need to work harder again IMO.

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  4. I’m not sure how I’d feel about Hoddle to be honest. He’s been out of the game a canny while now hasn’t he?.
    I would have been happy enough with Steve McClaren to be honest. I think he’s alot better than all the stick he gets.
    But now I think I’d prefer Roberto Di Matteo.

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  5. You really think Bobby Di would fit with us Sharpy mate @154? Oh, wait I’m not supposed tor write short negative comments.

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  6. Anyway does Bobby Di have any of the required qualities? Does he kiss good ****? Does he think Joe Kinnear is a genius? Has he got a strong desire to be the lowest paid manager in the Prem? Well if so step right up Bobby.

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  9. G2 – that wasn’t a short negative comment was it?, it was simply a question I thought?!

    And to answer it, yeah I don’t see why not. We have a good squad of players and any manager worth their salt would look at it and think they could make instant improvements.
    He may find the transfer windows frustrating, but then his previous managerial posts were at MK Dons, WBA and Chelsea. He didnt spend much at all while at Chelsea, so actually he’s probably used to our kind of budget.
    I think he’s a good professional and could work with Joe and Carr as long as he got full control over the playing side of things.

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  11. G2 –

    “Anyway does Bobby Di have any of the required qualities? Does he kiss good ****? Does he think Joe Kinnear is a genius? Has he got a strong desire to be the lowest paid manager in the Prem? Well if so step right up Bobby.”

    Well that one was defo short and negative!!.
    But regarding it …. Does Hoddle or anyone else have those required qualities?.

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  12. Hmmm I think you might be right Sharpy @159. Could someone please point Ashley toward him?

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  13. Yes sorry about that post @156. Mike definitely doesn’t hire people with those qualities.

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  14. The name Mick Harford keeps popping up as a potential manager for us. An old mate of Joe’s perhaps? I looked up his winning percentages. There pretty horrible all told. I can see why he might be under consideration. A mate of Joe after all? That’s reason enough right there.

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  15. G2 – JFK wanted Harford as his assistant DoF. I think if Joe got the managers job in place of Pardew then Harford may come as a coach, but I don’t ever see him as manager mate.

    Christ that would be a bigger ‘dream come true’ story than goal! that like!! 😆

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  16. You know satire is a very underappreciated art form. Yet it has it’s place. We have the perfect trio for satire to work. We have Magnificent Mike, Joltin Joe, and our man Alan. What more could we really ask for? Still I would like to see some decent football from us within the next 5 years. Is it possible? Yes! Hire a decent manager Mike. Forget about your ego for once. Don’t listen to Joe. Get a proper set of advisors and listen to their recommendations.

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  17. Glenn Hoddle 😯 seriously?

    lol are we in such a pickle we can look to hoddle.

    What about Howard Wilkinson, Big Ron or Howard Kendal 😆

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  18. Mark @167 I admit I’m desperate mate. We have had Pards for so long I’m just worried he’s rubbing off on me. I don’t really want Hoddle but I want Pardew even less. I’ve mentioned some names before but they’re never going to come to us.

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  19. I reckon Pards is the best option tbh. Its looking more likely JFK will be manager. I’m desperate for Pardew to stay now. 😆 . oh dear..

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  20. What we really need now is to bring in some really cheap Polish, German, Italian, and Spanish players and hire Mick Harford. Beautiful. 😆

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  21. I know Mike thinks the future lies with Polish footballers. The cheap ones. And if they’re youngish even better. He’s fed up with these English players who clearly can’t play. You know who he means. The ones who expects a decent wage. Since Remy probably wants a decent wage to stay permanently he’s had it with us as well. I know he’s not English but still. The nerve of him.

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  22. Apparently some of our French players’ conversation was recorded and translated from a recent practice. Some of it follows:
    “What the f*** did that gonk say”
    “He wants me to do what? What a f****** idiot.”
    “Have you ever seen a more useless **** Hatem?”
    Just a few of the more polite comments.

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  24. Sharpy ….is alan your fathrr or what..
    I m not surprise if he… 😆
    You havent feeling shame on urself when you come to defend a laborious and horifics hoofball tactics like that.. ❓
    I think you find a new sport..you know..we galking about football here… 🙄
    Please mate sharpy37 go back on hockey blog forum give your philosophical analyse there.. ❗
    Please keep safe our club of your dirty opinion..thank you mate 😉

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  25. gonna buy my dad some slippers form the Nufc shop. If I do will the proceeds go into SD’s or NUFC’s coffers? or does it not matter as Mike owns NUFC

    just looking at the NUFC Direct shop and it says The NUFC Direct website is operated by SportsDirect.com.

    I refuse to buy owt from SD.. apart from the lonsdale Gym training Moob-tube which is essential at my age 😀

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  26. DJEB is that what you call underhanded compliments to Sharpy? I don’t think Sharpy really loves Pards at all mate. In fact Sharpy makes a lot of comments on here that make sense and without the incredible silliness I usually gob off with.

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  27. Good on ya Mark mate @175. I’m not buying anything with any bloody mention of Wonga on it.

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  28. Some guys must washing fucking glaces ❗ 👿
    SACK PARDEW ❗
    He s a KUCKING JOKE..AND NO BODY LOUGHING ❗
    only chafpy67 maybe… 😕
    Inbelivble ❗

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  31. Ewww Mark @179. Is that going to sell? Maybe add a little something from Mike’s fetid armpits.

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  33. Chebz – you flirting again bonnylad? 😉

    Geordie two – cheers buddy, this kids some fraudster. He may actually be a footballing genius, but I haven’t been able to fully understand one of his posts yet 🙄 I fucking doubt it though 😆

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  34. Thanks mark for explain him….i m a far far foreigner 😳 .i dont understand well what does he talking about.. 😳
    But i m confus… 😳
    sharpy 17.. 😀

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  35. I wonder if Bayern would accept some advice from Pardew about their attack? Scoring and then not sitting back??? They’re clearly not doing it right.

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  37. In all fairness what team in the world could beat Bayern right now? Munich Mag any thoughts?

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  38. Aye Sharpy @186 and I’m a bit worried about Krul as well. He has looked off his game for a while. Is the shoulder still bothering him?

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  39. Hope pards watching bayern.. 😎
    Great great football…
    How much the score city beat us… 😥
    It s hard to watch level of city..because we loose a very hard score 4-0.. shame..
    Ho yes ..it s hatem fault…he must play behind colo Now…god…how peaple stupid and forget quikly … 🙄

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  42. Geordie – aye Krul hasn’t looked himself and hasn’t Elliott missed the last couple of games?!.
    Also read that De Zoet is now 7m. We should have kept Forster IMO or signed Butland where he left Bham for Stoke.

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  43. Yes I would agree Sharpy mate @192. We’re looking a bit thin in goal now after having very good depth for several years. Not sure what’s wrong with Elliot either?

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  44. Wonderful football to watch. Now it’s Cardiff vs Newcastle. A slightly different level I’m afraid.

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  45. G2@160 ,Sorry mate been away seeing to Lew and stuff like

    Re your question ,not sure mate tbh but I don’t want JFK or Hoddle. I wouldn’t say no to Bielsa , Rijkaard ,Domenech for the frenchies 😆 , it would be quite nice if we could tempt Thierry Henry to come manage us ,we know the Frenchies would be happy ,well any player would. But we’ll probably end up with someone like Curbishley if we are lucky to escape JFK that is. 🙄 🙁 The real question is who is mug enough to work under mothball wallet Mikey. 😕

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  46. Mark@179 😆 😆 😆 Hilarious mate ,you now what killed me ” splash on the scent of victory ” funny as **** mate .

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  47. Your choices are far better than mine for manager Kimtoon lass. Yes that splash on the scent of victory is hilarious. Mike really knows how to crack us up. 😆 Mark how much of it are you buying mate? Do they have a gallon bottle for the real movers and shakers?

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  56. C’mon Aussie revive the site with your much loved fight and passion. There’s too much tappy lappy football talk on here 😆

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  57. Georgio, regarding Troy….. Just think of Cartman from southpark and you will get a good idea of what he is like 😛
    I can’t fight mate, Big Daves ban hammer looms large and it scares me 😯 😆 😆

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  58. Aussie – no fight left in you? We’ll have to find you a place on the left wing!
    By the way do you think Troy is real? Weird name.
    Sometimes I wonder if despite all the strange names and exotic locations we all live in the same street in Newcastle. 😯

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  61. Georgio walks down his street and tries to figure out who’s who from the blog. The Old women with 10 cats is me 😛 The fat guy who feeds the pigeons is Aussie no doubt 😀

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  62. I actually know Troys real name, so for the right money, I will gladly tell you Georgio 😉

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  63. Santii 😯 i’d be the angry guy shooting the fecking pigeons mate.. and who are you calling fat 👿

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  64. OK Aussie what number do you live at?

    Santii – you’re decimating the bird population mate 🙁

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  67. According to some local rags the other week Di Matteo apparantly didnt want to talk to the monkeys because he was waiting for pardews job to become available. Hes out of work, Speaks a few languages, Done pretty well wherever hes been.

    If theres any truth in that story, It sounds like he’d work for ashley, Has worked in a dof/head coach set up at west brom and played nice stuff certainly at his first two clubs, Chelsea obviously played a flat back 10 when they won the cl but who wouldnt away at barca and bayern.

    Would be a hell of a lot more encouraging than Joe but that wouldnt be hard like… 🙄

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  68. I think what we saw on Monday was clear indication of what I have been saying for some time now.

    No clear game plan, almost as if we did not watch Everton video to identify threats and opportunities. We seemed to learn as we played them and the second half Pardew corrected it by putting the players he should have started the game with. By then we were 3 down and there was really no way back for us then.

    To score two goals in an away game is great but to concede 3 is just plain poor. As I said on the day we as Newcastle fans under Pardew have grown accustomed to these occasional capitulations. We have had two so far this season which is too many in such a short space of time.

    Really Pardew does not know how to get us out of this and really it is him just hoping every game that it will not happen.

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  70. CC – he’d be my preferred choice mate.

    Michael12 – 4-3-3 has got us 2 goals away to Villa and Everton and at home to Leeds and Hull. If you’re scoring 2 goals a game then most games you’d expect to come away with at least a point.
    The problem, like you say is clearly defence. I don’t expect them to be keeping clean sheets week in week out. But they need to be alot harder to penetrate. If we don’t have a coach within the club to do that, then we really should be considering hiring one, either permanently or as a consultant.
    It’s no good keep ringing the changes and bringing new personnel into the team. I think most would agree that on paper, the back 5 we are selecting are probably the best we have.
    So for me we have to stick with them, work with them and make it work.
    Actually, that goes for the whole team. The 11 he’s been selecting are probably on paper our best 11. So he needs to be finding a way of making it work.

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  71. I know everyone likes their predictors on here, so I would say that actually we are probably only 3 points shy of what most would have predicted at this stage, from the games we’ve played.
    Looked at that way, you could say that Pardew isn’t doing terrible – and I’m sure that would probably be his arguement.

    But it’s been the performances for me. Every team will have games were they totally dominate the opposition but loose. But that hasn’t been our plight at all. The Villa game aside, I haven’t seen us play well in the league for ages. Teams just aren’t frightened of playing Newcastle. Hull came and were in our faces from kick off and so were Everton. Both knew we’d buckle under pressure. My worry now is that if we haven’t address that this week and Cardiff have done their homework, they also have players who will happily get in our faces too.

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  72. Any body notice how many chances we’ve created this season? I tried counting and only got to one (Marv to Remy v Hull). No chances missed 1 created in 6 games. Hummmm.

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  75. story doing the rounds that jfk was at a birmingham game and asked about young fergie,lee clarke told him hes a toon player here on loan.WTF. 🙄 😯 😕 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆

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