Christmas Tree 4858 Posted February 6, 2011 Share Posted February 6, 2011 I'm at work and on the iPhone so can someone else copy and paste this story. Credit to Pardew for the hairdryer at half time as well. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/...o=feeds-newsxml Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kid Dynamite 7192 Posted February 6, 2011 Share Posted February 6, 2011 I still can't understand everyone saying Barton's tackle was a red? Wasn't even a foul. Front on, studs down, took the ball. It wasn't even a 50/50, Barton was a yard closer to the ball, Diaby could have gotten out of the way if he wanted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMoog 0 Posted February 6, 2011 Share Posted February 6, 2011 I still can't understand everyone saying Barton's tackle was a red? Wasn't even a foul. Front on, studs down, took the ball. It wasn't even a 50/50, Barton was a yard closer to the ball, Diaby could have gotten out of the way if he wanted. But everyone knows you're not allowed to tackle in the modern game, heaven forbid any physical contact on the blessed darling superstar footballers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IrishMag 0 Posted February 6, 2011 Share Posted February 6, 2011 I still can't understand everyone saying Barton's tackle was a red? Wasn't even a foul. Front on, studs down, took the ball. It wasn't even a 50/50, Barton was a yard closer to the ball, Diaby could have gotten out of the way if he wanted. But everyone knows Joey Barton is not allowed to tackle in the modern game, heaven forbid any physical contact on the blessed darling superstar footballers FYP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christmas Tree 4858 Posted February 7, 2011 Author Share Posted February 7, 2011 If you want a job doing properly..... The inside line on the greatest comeback 2.55pm: SATURDAY, HOME DRESSING ROOM Alan Pardew Newcastle manager can see it in his players' eyes, he feels it in their body language and from the uncharacteristic silence since lunchtime. With Andy Carroll's departure still on their minds, his team are not ready. 'I could sense something wasn't right. You can't feel it an hour before because people can be calm and casual and everything else but, five, 10 minutes before the game you get a feeling of what your team are like and it wasn't right. We were genuinely feeling sorry for ourselves. There was a hangover from the events of the last week and to a degree some were asking, "Is it all about Andy Carroll?" Well, it isn't. It's about Newcastle.' 3.26pm: NEWCASTLE..... 0 ARSENAL.......... 4 Pardew Newcastle are a goal down in 40 seconds. When Robin van Persie makes it 4-0, 25 minutes later, hundreds of home fans leave. 'When you're 4-0 down after 26 minutes and you haven't made a challenge you have to fear the worst, and I did.' One supporter berates Pardew behind the dug-out. 'Go Pardew,' he screams. 'Just walk away now. Can't you see people are leaving the stadium?' The Newcastle boss hears every word. 'I was aware of him. And that ain't the first time it's happened,' Pardew said. 'If I was a fan, I'd be questioning the manager about the preparation of that team.' Pardew delivers the mother of all half-time rollickings. 3.50pm: HALF-TIME, NEWCASTLE...0 ARSENAL...4 Cheik Tiote Newcastle midfielder says: 'The manager was furious, shouting, and there were things thrown. He kept the same team because he said it was up to us.' Joey Barton adds: 'We were thinking double figures, they were that good.' 4.08pm: NEWCASTLE..... 0 ARSENAL.......... 4 Joey Barton Abou Diaby reacts furiously to Barton's fair challenge, pushes him to the floor then shoves Kevin Nolan. It leads to the greatest collapse in Premier League history. 'He has taken a bad touch and I have to win it. If I don't go for the ball my manager, team-mates and the fans are going to nail me. I went in one-footed to win the ball and I just don't understand his reaction.' Arsene Wenger Arsenal manager says: 'The sending-off was a turning point. We were hurt by going down to 10 men. It had a psychological and physical impact.' 4.28pm: NEWCASTLE...... 1 ARSENAL.......... 4 Wenger Laurent Koscielny makes a mess of a challenge on Leon Best. Barton scores the penalty. Wenger says: 'At 4-0 we were quite comfortable but we panicked a little bit. They got the penalty and we were under pressure.' Tiote added: 'We could see the doubts start to creep in. The whole game suddenly changed.' 4.35pm: NEWCASTLE..... 2 ARSENAL ......... 4 Wojciech Szczesny Best exploits growing panic among Arsenal's defenders to score. Visiting goalkeeper says: 'The whole back four had changed but we are used to playing with each other and we should still have been comfortable.' 4.43pm: NEWCASTLE..... 3 ARSENAL.......... 4 Szczesny Phil Dowd awards the most generous of penalties for a supposed push from Tomas Rosicky on Mike Williamson. Barton converts again. He adds: 'Neither of them were penalties in my view and it was not a free-kick for the fourth goal either.' 4.48pm: NEWCASTLE..... 4 ARSENAL.......... 4 Tiote Tiote completes the comeback with a once-in-a-lifetime volley. The midfielder says: 'It is the greatest goal I've ever scored and the greatest moment of my career. Unbelievable. Incredible. Wow.' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamesD 0 Posted February 7, 2011 Share Posted February 7, 2011 I still can't understand everyone saying Barton's tackle was a red? Wasn't even a foul. Front on, studs down, took the ball. It wasn't even a 50/50, Barton was a yard closer to the ball, Diaby could have gotten out of the way if he wanted. But everyone knows you're not allowed to tackle in the modern game, heaven forbid any physical contact on the blessed darling superstar footballers How about De Jong's tackle? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Fish 10978 Posted February 7, 2011 Share Posted February 7, 2011 I still can't understand everyone saying Barton's tackle was a red? Wasn't even a foul. Front on, studs down, took the ball. It wasn't even a 50/50, Barton was a yard closer to the ball, Diaby could have gotten out of the way if he wanted. But everyone knows you're not allowed to tackle in the modern game, heaven forbid any physical contact on the blessed darling superstar footballers How about De Jong's tackle? Are you comparing Joey Barton's legal bone-shuddering tackle with DeJong's leg breaking unpunished foul? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamesD 0 Posted February 7, 2011 Share Posted February 7, 2011 Diaby's leg bent and looked close to breaking, luckily he came out of it unhurt. He was very very lucky it never snapped. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Fish 10978 Posted February 7, 2011 Share Posted February 7, 2011 Diaby's leg bent and looked close to breaking, luckily he came out of it unhurt. He was very very lucky it never snapped. I'm all for banter between rivals, but you're talking shit. It was a great tackle, a strong tackle and a fair tackle. Anyway, that high-horse you're on is a fucking pit pony. What about the Clattermole assaults we see? Watch that hubris. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamesD 0 Posted February 7, 2011 Share Posted February 7, 2011 As was De Jong's IMO. Obviously it was unlucky how HBA broke his leg, but the actual tackle was no worse than Barton's. And I've not really seen a nasty tackle from Cattermole while at SAFC, hence the fact he's not had a straight red for us, just 2 stupid yellows (several times admittedly) for niggling little fouls. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monroe Transfer 0 Posted February 7, 2011 Share Posted February 7, 2011 The match report itself, on the other hand is critical of us. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/...eback-ages.html t was so good, Phil Dowd did not want it to end. The referee added an extra five minutes of pulsating excitement, heart-bursting passion and sinew-stretching commitment as Newcastle made a truly remarkable comeback in a match which appeared to be done and dusted after just 26 minutes. Newcastle looked as though they were condemned to defeat after just 45 seconds when Theo Walcott scored. Two minutes later Johan Djourou increased the lead before Robin van Persie added two more. Arsenal's dominance bordered on sadism and it looked as though there was no way back for Newcastle. Arsene Wenger's stars toyed with opposition so embarrassingly inept early on that it was excruciating to watch. They had pace, precision and a kind of arrogant deportment that reduced even the most ardent United fan to a silent acceptance of their place near the bottom of football's social ladder. It was the Gunners at their exhilarating, contemptuous best. And if it had been half a dozen by half-time nobody would have quibbled. But then everything changed. Put simply, as has happened so many times in the past, Wenger's title hopefuls demonstrated that they just don't like it up 'em and amazingly, they conceded four goals. Behind their facade of superiority there lies a frailty of character that becomes apparent when it is questioned. In the 50th minute Joey Barton bludgeoned Abou Diaby with a challenge that was fierce but, in terms of winning the ball, was fair. Referee Dowd thought so, but Diaby did not. The Arsenal midfielder grasped Barton by the neck and threw him to the ground. Never one to shirk such a set-to, Kevin Nolan joined in and Diaby's push in the back put him on the deck, too. Out came the official's red card; off went the Frenchman and gone were any real pretensions that Arsenal have of being any better than title also-rans. But nobody could have expected such a dishevelled collapse that began when Laurent Koscielny brought down Leon Best and Barton sent Wojciech Szczesny the wrong way from the penalty spot in the 68th minute. Or when Best, after having a perfectly good goal disallowed in the 74th minute, pulled another back a minute later. The Arsenal ramparts were falling like playing cards in the wind and, try as he might by bringing on Emmanuel Eboue for Walcott with 11 minutes remaining, there was little Wenger could do about it. Seven minutes from the end, Dowd was more than a little generous when he awarded Newcastle a second penalty for a push by Tomas Rosicky on Mike Williamson but Barton kept his cool to make it 4-3. But the best was saved for the last when the superb Cheik Tiote crowned the astonishing fightback by striking a superb left-foot volley past Szczesny with three minutes remaining. This was the first time in Premier League history that a team had allowed a four-goal lead to slip. But this pulsating match of contrasting halves demonstrated that even though Arsenal have qualities that could win the title, they will not because of their weaknesses. And it also illustrated why Newcastle will, with their current financial constraints, always labour under an inferiority complex. Nobody could seriously blame United chief Mike Ashley for accepting Liverpool's £35million bid for Andy Carroll - although his departure was followed by the loss of strikers Shola Ameobi (fractured cheekbone) and Best, who damaged his hamstring yesterday. The Carroll deal that will surely define not only the billionaire sports goods entrepreneur's real worth as United's owner, but also judge the wisdom of his decision to dispense with manager Chris Hughton and replace him with Alan Pardew. Reinvesting the money raised from the Carroll deal in the transfer market this summer will be seen by fans as essential to the club's Premier League future, and Pardew's ability to spend wisely will inevitably come under close examination. Whether long-suffering Newcastle supporters will put up with the manager's party-line assertion that United will be a selling club for at least another two years with a man at the top who has enough spending power to sustain the team's Premier League status at the very least, still remains to be seen. Without question, Tiote will be the next player to leave St James's Park for big money. He produced a blistering strike to prove that he is a top-class midfielder. Newcastle fans will do well to savour his talents while he is around. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Fish 10978 Posted February 7, 2011 Share Posted February 7, 2011 As was De Jong's IMO. Obviously it was unlucky how HBA broke his leg, but the actual tackle was no worse than Barton's. And I've not really seen a nasty tackle from Cattermole while at SAFC, hence the fact he's not had a straight red for us, just 2 stupid yellows (several times admittedly) for niggling little fouls. Look I'm not being funny, but you're as biased as I am and I'm never going to agree that a scissor tackle from behind that breaks a leg is the same as two lads going in strong for a loose ball. My point is, you're in no place to claim any moral superiority Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peasepud 59 Posted February 7, 2011 Share Posted February 7, 2011 Definitely not the greatest comeback ever! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlton_Athl...sfield_Town_F.C. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChezGiven 0 Posted February 7, 2011 Share Posted February 7, 2011 Diaby's leg bent and looked close to breaking, luckily he came out of it unhurt. He was very very lucky it never snapped. Bone doesn't bend thats why bones break. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest alex Posted February 7, 2011 Share Posted February 7, 2011 The thing is innocuous challenges can lead to breaks (David Busst or even Shola's recent injury) but Barton went in hard but fair. Not saying Barton hasn't got the propensity for making bad tackles, because he has, but that wasn't a bad tackle. He got the ball fairly, studs down and he never even left the ground. His momentum took him into the player but that happens at times. De Jong's was a different sort of tackle imo as there was intent to injure the player. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christmas Tree 4858 Posted February 8, 2011 Author Share Posted February 8, 2011 Just watched this yet again (well the half that counts anyway). 4 or 5 chances I've given Nolan but he still hasn't scored that last minute winner. Loving Simpson's tackling, Loving Pardews celebration and Loving the crowds performance. Would still like to hear from those that were there, how they felt as that second half unfolded. How come they were so up for it second half? At what did they believe? A word also on Joeys penalties......They went in but by hell they were ropey!!! He did a fabulous interview with Total sport and they played the first half tonight (second half tomorrow). Does a great speech about how he looked into their eyes and could see they'd gone Also he said something along the lines of Shola is the normal penalty taker, then Nolan. Nolan sort of hesitated so Joey just took the ball and took the penalty. He's being getting stick since that the only thing he doesnt take is the goal kicks, so he's told Harper he'll be taking them from now on as well. Maybe worth checking their site to see if its on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christmas Tree 4858 Posted February 8, 2011 Author Share Posted February 8, 2011 Joey Barton interview here. Move the slider to 1.11.30 http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/p00dc...port_08_02_2011 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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