Barton hit by Magpies suspension

[scoobydoo]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/n/newcastle_united/8033495.stm

Have to say I am amazed by this story...whatever happened to giving a man a chance in life? :D Anybody see the challenge?

[vegyjones]

I haven't seen the challenge, but how many last chances do you give someone.

I said in the last jowy Barton debate that Newcastle will try and recoup some of the money they paid for him.

But surely the fella should be permanently banned from playing football in England.

He just can't help himself!

[Win2Win]

In the papers today Barton has slagged off Shearer.....like he is in the same class to do so :splapme

[peza2605]

To be fair ive seen worse tackles than that. I reckon hes been suspended to do with his haircut.

[scoobydoo]

How you feeling pez...nervous, shaky,edgy, confident, none of the above?? :wink

[mathare]

The Sun reckons he squared up to Shearer after the match at the weekend and called Shearer a "sh** manager with sh** tactics" after Shearer said he was disappointed with Barton and that he deserved to be sent off. Apparently Shearer made a point of letting Barton know that Shearer felt let down after he had given Barton a chance in the first team, to which Barton replied that he was the best player at the club :laugh

[peza2605]

How you feeling pez...nervous, shaky,edgy, confident, none of the above?? :wink

none of the above, just looking forward to it and believe it or not im feeling comfident we will go through :omg::omg::yikes:!! kiss of death no doubt.

[TheOldhamWhisper]

The challenge was worthy of a sending off - a two-footed lunge which could best be described as a 'leg-breaker'.

Maybe a different player would have got away with just a yellow card, only the ref can answer that one, but the tackle itself was needless - the player was next to the corner flag and had nowhere to go except back along the touchline. Any half-decent player would have kept his feet and (at worst) conceded a throw-in.

[scoobydoo]

Apparently Shearer made a point of letting Barton know that Shearer felt let down after he had given Barton a chance in the first team, to which Barton replied that he was the best player at the club :laugh

But is that saying much! :laugh


none of the above, just looking forward to it and believe it or not im feeling comfident we will go through :omg::omg::yikes:!! kiss of death no doubt.

Hope you're right mate....I agree with Fergie its going to be real close I think. Arsenal are way too confident for me. :yikes:


The challenge was worthy of a sending off - a two-footed lunge which could best be described as a 'leg-breaker'.

Maybe a different player would have got away with just a yellow card, only the ref can answer that one, but the tackle itself was needless - the player was next to the corner flag and had nowhere to go except back along the touchline. Any half-decent player would have kept his feet and (at worst) conceded a throw-in.

He is a :icon_tong...pure and simple. He will never learn and somebody will pay yet again from his ever needing urge to commit violence, whether that is on the field or off is yet to be seen. He gave up drink didnt he as that was the problem...maybe he is back on it.

The other problem being here is there will always be someone who will take a chance on him if Newcastle sell him on the cheap...its unlike any other employment where once someone saw his CV, they would run a mile...but not in football. I see him going to Blackburn or Bolton on a free in the summer! :D

[yerotsluap]

Apparently Shearer said it was a cowards challenge. Would love to know what Shearer thought of himself after he tried to boot Neil Lennons head off his shoulders, It just strikes me that its got to the stage where Shearer is failing the job he was brought in to do and now hes looking for scapegoats

[Win2Win]

It just strikes me that its got to the stage where Shearer is failing the job he was brought in to do and now hes looking for scapegoats
I wouldn't say he's failing, he was handed a sinking ship with an unfixable hole in it! :splapme They were already relegated before he joined.

[mathare]

Would love to know what Shearer thought of himself after he tried to boot Neil Lennons head off his shouldersI'd like to know what Shearer thought of himself when he moaned to Sky's cameras that he'd been "done" by a league four centre-back who gave him a taste of his own medicine (and blood) by elbowing him in the mouth when they went up for a header a few years back. And also what Shearer thought of himself when he offered this fellow professional footballer out for a fight in the car park. It's alright to be dishing it out, isn't it Alan?

[vegyjones]

Still bitter about that Mat? :D

[mathare]

Still bitter about that Mat? :DI'm not at all bitter; I think it's rather amusing that a Premiership hard man got a bit of a knock from a lower league footballer and virtually cried about it. Why offer an ex-soldier out for a fight?

[scoobydoo]

I'm not at all bitter; I think it's rather amusing that a Premiership hard man got a bit of a knock from a lower league footballer and virtually cried about it. Why offer an ex-soldier out for a fight?

Do you remember when Shearer flinched a few years ago at St. James Park when confronted by Keane as he was being sent off ...you could see the fear in his eyes! :helper :D