Football *Spoilers* 8th-9th March

Fubsy said:
Pompey deserve to get to final and be beaten by a really harsh penalty and sending off in the last minute against BARNSLEY.

That will ******* learn the ***** for playing in such an infuriating manner.
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LOL , would you like some cheese and biscuits with your Whine mate ?

Play up Pompey !!!!

:p
 
Job done.

Great formation we're playing at the moment. Only really short of a decent right sided attacker if Babel keeps progressing as well as he has.

Hope the Inter v Reggina match is a brutal affair.
 
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Extremely easy win in the end. Could have been a cricket score had we kept Gerrard and Torres on, they were taking Newcastle apart at ease.

Sets us up nicely for the Inter tie, hopefully Mascherano is going to be fit.
 
Newcastle have a decent run in, but they're yet to record a win.

If Newcastle go down, they will have no one else other than them selves to blame. Yes they have a great set of fans, but they are not a big club in terms of Premiership football, or even cup football.
 
Problem is for Newcastle is they just are not improving anywhere on the pitch and are in complete free fall.
They need to get 36 points to stand a chance of staying up.
What are their remaining fixtures?

Birmingham v Newcastle- 1-0
Newcastle v Fulham 1-0
Tottenham v Newcastle 3-0
Newcastle v Reading 0-1
Portsmouth v Newcastle 2-0
Newcastle v Sunderland 0-0
West Ham v Newcastle 2-0
Newcastle v Chelsea 0-5
Everton v Newcastle 2-0

I can see 4 points from their remaining games.

At the minute their point average is now less than a point a game.
but King Kev only has one draw to his name in 8(?) matches now.
 
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Pigeon_Killer said:
Very feasible. Newcastles remaining fixtures are tough.

Look at the away games they've got left. Far from easy.
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Ignore the away ones: concentrate on these:

Fulham at home
Reading at home
Sunderland at home

that's 9 points newcastle should get, which if they do they should be safe. They aso have Birmingham away which they should get a draw from. If they manage to take 3 points out of the remaining away games, they'll be here next season. So it's not an awful run in at all.
 
Interesting result for us today to say the least :(.
I have said several times in the past that Hargreaves and Scholes cannot play together, they just don't work. Scholes' performance is the worst I have ever seen from him watching Man Utd.

Why Ferguson took Tevez (our best player) off, and left Scholes (our worst) I don't know. He baffles me sometimes.

Overall I think it's fair to say we were unlucky, it was a blatent penalty, 2 off the line, the woodwork, and Kuszczak shouldn't have been sent-off. I guess it happens, but the referee was appalling today, how Diarra wasn't sent off I don't know.
 
NokkonWud said:
and Kuszczak shouldn't have been sent-off.
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Why? Had it been Rooney bring Baros down and Kuszczak on the line it would have been a red card (last defender and so on), therefore surely Kuszczack bringing him down with Rooney on the line is more of a goal scoring opportunity?
 
It's kinda strange to try an analyse this game, the penalty was as they say "stone wall". Diarra fouled ronaldo a minute before hand with a replica challenge. Kuszczak shouldn't have been dismissed, Baros looked to have hit him in the head. He also wasn't the last man, to be fair we had plenty of chances, Pompey defended extremely well however if the penalty that never was had been given and scored it would have been a completely different result. I agree with Nokkon, Scholes was dreadful and nani was pretty wasteful too.
 
BaZ87 said:
Why? Had it been Rooney bring Baros down and Kuszczak on the line it would have been a red card (last defender and so on), therefore surely Kuszczack bringing him down with Rooney on the line is more of a goal scoring opportunity?
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Because Baros kneed Kuszczak in the face. Kuszczak never brough Baros down with his legs or arms. IT was a penalty, but never a red.
 
The pressure on Newcastle is becoming great to say the least. You have got a group of players that look at sixes and sevens, a manager who some may say doesn't handle the pressure very well, he has already had the dreaded vote of confidence of sorts.

Off the top of my head all the points they have so far were accumulated under Big Sam.

Then there is Shearer, since his retirement and some would say during the end of his career he is like a millstone around the neck of any manager, I think Keegan was canny enough to know this and hence didn't make him his assistant, coach whatever you want to call him. Will Shearer ever risk his reputation with the Newcastle fans?

There is no transfer window, they are stuck with what they have, they are very poor defensively, and Keegan has never been known for his defensive astuteness.

I am not sure where Newcastle go from here, in a bizzare way relegation maybe the kick up the proverbial that brings a little reality back to St. James' Park.
 
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