Newcastle Vs City Post Match Thread

[andyhinch]

Some bloke on SSN this morning doing the paper review reckoned we were "absolutely battered" in the second half yesterday.
I've recounted the empty beer cans and I can only conclude I watched the wrong game.

A few of our players were battered.

 

[Matty]

Some bloke on SSN this morning doing the paper review reckoned we were "absolutely battered" in the second half yesterday.
I've recounted the empty beer cans and I can only conclude I watched the wrong game.

We were not only battered, we were also bruised.

 

[cheddar404]

Some bloke on SSN this morning doing the paper review reckoned we were "absolutely battered" in the second half yesterday.
I've recounted the empty beer cans and I can only conclude I watched the wrong game.

A few of our players were battered.

Everything is battered in Newcastle. The whole town centre smelled like a chippy!

 

[johnbmcr]

Some bloke on SSN this morning doing the paper review reckoned we were "absolutely battered" in the second half yesterday.
I've recounted the empty beer cans and I can only conclude I watched the wrong game.

A few of our players were battered.

Everything is battered in Newcastle. The whole town centre smelled like a chippy!

we are not mars bars we are city

 

[Lancet Fluke]

I'm surprised that in a match where a player was deliberately done by an opponent and another should 100% have been sent off for two yellows that the only talking point in the media seems to be a debateable offside. Personally, I thought it was a harsh decision on Newcastle but nowhere near as bad as the decisions not to send off Cabaye or their dirty **** of a full back. And how many dodgy offsides happen every week? We have had a few go for us (yesterday and Liverpool) and a few go against us (Villa and Swansea) already this season, I just don't see the big drama, nobody in the media gave a shit about us conceding clearly offside goals so why are they so obsessed with yesterday's decision? The way I see it though in terms of the decision, we play the offside trap every week, the offside rule isn't quite as black and white as it used to be so when we concede goals like we did against Swansea, I think we have to accept it. IMO if players are going to stand offside, within a few yards from goal and between the posts then they are taking the same gamble that we do every time we step up for offside. They are gambling that the officials will make the correct call. It's why (imo) we shouldn't step up so often and it's why lazy arsed strikers should make more of an effort to get themselves onside. It's tough shit.

I think they do. How many controversial decisions accompanied a title challenger's fixtures and how many of those got the treatment that offside got? Nearly every comment I have seen and heard from ex-pros and ex-whistling wankers seem to miss the essential point. We have all sorts of nonsense about 'entertainment', Joe's unimpaired vision and so on ad infinitum. The simple fact of the matter is that Gouffran was interfering. End of! So fuck off Didi, St. Jamie of Carragher and the Holier than Us Halsey!

Well I didn't hear too many of them bleating on our behalf about Villa's first and Swansea's first being offside. I must have missed that particular media outrage.

 

[BluessinceHydeRoad]

It was a splendid strike and I can understand Chiote's frustration, especially as he has never struck a ball so sweetly and so accurately before and probably never will again! I cannot understand 3 Newcastle lads standing like statues in our 6 yard box while the ball is still not cleared, and they are the root of the problem as it turns out. The offside laws were perfectly clear until got goals disallowed for ridiculous offsides, such as the famous one (which relegated City) where Tiatto was a foot offside on the other side of Middlesborough's pitch, on the touchline, when City tapped in from three yards out. Also sides playing the offside trap (which hasn't disappeared!) were thought to be ruining the game. But the law hasn't been simplified, it certainly hasn't been clarified and now it is possible in every case of offside that the ref is both right and wrong at the same time. There is no agreement at all even today: leaving fans aside Poll is adamant it was a “goal” while Halsey is adamant the ref got it “spot on”. I suspect most refs would have given the goal, but only most rather than anywhere near all. What has become clear is that the pundits know, at most, only half the relevant law and only the part which the ref didn't apply. Danny Mills was always unlikely to go go the extra six inches and research the whole law.

What was inexcusable was the reaction of the Newcastle team, management and fans. Many of their players have alarmingly low boiling points and they boiled over immediately. Nasri was flattened immediately (Merlin had already received an elbow to the throat in the build up to our goal..) and the tackles flew in literally with a vengeance, culminating in the crude, multiple assault which may have ended Samir's season. Pardew seems to have blamed Pellegrini for every ill which has afflicted Tyneside in a generation and the FA will, surely, not believe that what he said and the way he said it, was the usual “teasing” which managers go in for as part of the routine of matchday. The Geordie fans – or hopefully a minority – were a disgrace. Edin Dzeko was booed throughout, presumably for scoring, the entire City team were held responsible for the ref's interpretation of the laws, even Samir was booed as he was stretchered off, in an unprecedented lack of sportsmanship and basic humanity. Last night posts from Geordie's appeared in newspapers such as the Guardian justifying the brutality of their team because “the ref had got it wrong”, he'd “messed up”, the players had “taken revenge” in the only way they could, Ben Arfa had had his leg broken by “that animal” De Jong and worst of all, if Nasri's career was over, he was only another mercenary and City could spend another £200 million on as many of them as they wanted. Real gents.

City meanwhile were playing a game of football. I'm proud to say Pellegrini remained dignified and calm – his sole response to Pardew's tirade was to ask the interpreter to translate, I believe – the players remained focused and calm and we came away with 3 well deserved points. Well done lads, and every best wish Samir.

 

[prestonibbo_mcfc]

It was a splendid strike and I can understand Chiote's frustration, especially as he has never struck a ball so sweetly and so accurately before and probably never will again! I cannot understand 3 Newcastle lads standing like statues in our 6 yard box while the ball is still not cleared, and they are the root of the problem as it turns out. The offside laws were perfectly clear until got goals disallowed for ridiculous offsides, such as the famous one (which relegated City) where Tiatto was a foot offside on the other side of Middlesborough's pitch, on the touchline, when City tapped in from three yards out. Also sides playing the offside trap (which hasn't disappeared!) were thought to be ruining the game. But the law hasn't been simplified, it certainly hasn't been clarified and now it is possible in every case of offside that the ref is both right and wrong at the same time. There is no agreement at all even today: leaving fans aside Poll is adamant it was a “goal” while Halsey is adamant the ref got it “spot on”. I suspect most refs would have given the goal, but only most rather than anywhere near all. What has become clear is that the pundits know, at most, only half the relevant law and only the part which the ref didn't apply. Danny Mills was always unlikely to go go the extra six inches and research the whole law.

What was inexcusable was the reaction of the Newcastle team, management and fans. Many of their players have alarmingly low boiling points and they boiled over immediately. Nasri was flattened immediately (Merlin had already received an elbow to the throat in the build up to our goal..) and the tackles flew in literally with a vengeance, culminating in the crude, multiple assault which may have ended Samir's season. Pardew seems to have blamed Pellegrini for every ill which has afflicted Tyneside in a generation and the FA will, surely, not believe that what he said and the way he said it, was the usual “teasing” which managers go in for as part of the routine of matchday. The Geordie fans – or hopefully a minority – were a disgrace. Edin Dzeko was booed throughout, presumably for scoring, the entire City team were held responsible for the ref's interpretation of the laws, even Samir was booed as he was stretchered off, in an unprecedented lack of sportsmanship and basic humanity. Last night posts from Geordie's appeared in newspapers such as the Guardian justifying the brutality of their team because “the ref had got it wrong”, he'd “messed up”, the players had “taken revenge” in the only way they could, Ben Arfa had had his leg broken by “that animal” De Jong and worst of all, if Nasri's career was over, he was only another mercenary and City could spend another £200 million on as many of them as they wanted. Real gents.

City meanwhile were playing a game of football. I'm proud to say Pellegrini remained dignified and calm – his sole response to Pardew's tirade was to ask the interpreter to translate, I believe – the players remained focused and calm and we came away with 3 well deserved points. Well done lads, and every best wish Samir.

Good post. Now time to move on to bigger and better things. Blackburn at home.

 

[Joycee Banercheck]

Booooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!! Boooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!

Sorry, I got caught up in the new Geordie trend.

Didn't want to post last night as I was a bit tipsy. What I'll say now is that the ref bottled it for their 'goal'. It should have stood and I wished it did. It got them playing. And the ref bottled absolutely everything after it. If you consider the butterfly effect, then the rest of this post is bollocks, but how the fuck did the barcodes end up with 11 men on the pitch?? Even before the 'decision', Tiote should have had a yellow for constant fouling. He got away with it. Then the 'goal' and I lost count of how many fouls and yellers they should have had. Ref bottled sending off Cabaye and that guy with the hyphenated name on Nasri.

So despite a few off-key performances from Silva, Yaya and Fern in the middle....well played, blues. Hope Nasri is ok. Can't wait to see us kick fuck out of the Geordies next season the dirty bastards. Hear the decision, live with it, get on with it...we've done that for years.

 

[cheddar404]

Booooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!! Boooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!

Sorry, I got caught up in the new Geordie trend.

Didn't want to post last night as I was a bit tipsy. What I'll say now is that the ref bottled it for their 'goal'. It should have stood and I wished it did. It got them playing. And the ref bottled absolutely everything after it. If you consider the butterfly effect, then the rest of this post is bollocks, but how the fuck did the barcodes end up with 11 men on the pitch?? Even before the 'decision', Tiote should have had a yellow for constant fouling. He got away with it. Then the 'goal' and I lost count of how many fouls and yellers they should have had. Ref bottled sending off Cabaye and that guy with the hyphenated name on Nasri.

So despite a few off-key performances from Silva, Yaya and Fern in the middle....well played, blues. Hope Nasri is ok. Can't wait to see us kick fuck out of the Geordies next season the dirty bastards. Hear the decision, live with it, get on with it...we've done that for years.

I don't understand why you say he bottled it. Surely his life would have been made a lot easier had he given it and not had 45000 Geordies on his back for the rest of the match. I think he just gave it as he saw it. On another day, with a different referee, it might have stood.

 

[Joycee Banercheck]

Booooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!! Boooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!

Sorry, I got caught up in the new Geordie trend.

Didn't want to post last night as I was a bit tipsy. What I'll say now is that the ref bottled it for their 'goal'. It should have stood and I wished it did. It got them playing. And the ref bottled absolutely everything after it. If you consider the butterfly effect, then the rest of this post is bollocks, but how the fuck did the barcodes end up with 11 men on the pitch?? Even before the 'decision', Tiote should have had a yellow for constant fouling. He got away with it. Then the 'goal' and I lost count of how many fouls and yellers they should have had. Ref bottled sending off Cabaye and that guy with the hyphenated name on Nasri.

So despite a few off-key performances from Silva, Yaya and Fern in the middle....well played, blues. Hope Nasri is ok. Can't wait to see us kick fuck out of the Geordies next season the dirty bastards. Hear the decision, live with it, get on with it...we've done that for years.

I don't understand why you say he bottled it. Surely his life would have been made a lot easier had he given it and not had 45000 Geordies on his back for the rest of the match. I think he just gave it as he saw it. On another day, with a different referee, it might have stood.

He bottled it AFTER that. I think it should have stood.