Stevenage v Newcastle United

[Christmas Tree 3997]

This certainly puts the Aldershot result in perspective.

 

Agreed.

 

Change your fucking ava by the way Christmas Tree.

 

 

Done

[jaythesouthernmag 0]

Tim Krul is fucking shite

[Christmas Tree 3997]

Beautiful goal from Barton.

[Papa Lazaru 0]

Firstly we comepletely deserved to lose as we were appalling so this isn't sour grapes, but i have never seen a lower level team be such a bunch of diving, cheating, injury feigning little pricks. You always expect the one thing with lower teams is they might still play fotoball like men, but they were an embarassment.

[Guest alex]

We never lost to Stevenage under Shepherd.

[luckyluke 1]

We never lost to Stevenage under Shepherd.

 

Not for lack of trying though.

 

Stevenage player KOd - someone else can do the clever bit and put it in a post.

 

Looks like a decent punch, albeit fucking cowardly.

[ChezGiven 0]

Has Gejon shown his greek-esque podgy face in this thread yet? The Stevenage dwelling twat.

[Sonatine 9987]

Alan Pardew: Red card was the turning point

 

Jan 10 2011 by Lee Ryder, Evening Chronicle

 

 

ALAN PARDEW feels Cheik Tiote’s red card was the turning point in Newcastle United’s painful FA Cup exit at Stevenage.

 

Tiote was airborne before he won the ball from John Ashton and, in the eyes of the FA and Andre Marriner, such challenges are now being hit hard by officials, as Steven Gerrard also found out at Old Trafford in Liverpool’s defeat against Manchester United.

 

Tiote was unlucky, however, as a clutch of Stevenage players surrounded the referee and a bench clearance led by Boro boss Graham Westley hardly helped the Ivorian’s case.

 

And despite being 2-0 down when Tiote went for an early bath with 20 minutes to go, Pardew felt the game was still alive.

 

Pardew told the Chronicle: “At 1-0 or 2-0, you’re in the game, and the sending-off was significant.

 

“I thought it was harsh, and you can argue a number of things, but I thought there was no way he went to hurt the player. Not in a million years.

 

“That caused us even more problems – it got ugly.”

 

Pardew felt his players were physically drained after the packed festive period of games and being forced to train indoors for long patches of the big freeze.

 

He said: “I know these players – they looked shot, to be honest.

 

“We talked about it, but we couldn’t produce what we needed.

 

“We just couldn’t match the energy Stevenage had. We looked tired as a group.

 

“The guys who haven’t been playing and who came in looked like their conditioning was a problem, because we haven’t been on the training ground.

 

“The deflection seemed to knock the stuffing out of us, and it also gave them momentum, because they were losing their way at that point.

 

“I thought we started that half well – it was almost their first attack.

 

“We just couldn’t get to grips with the night after that, and the lack of energy was significant.”

 

 

I thought the turning point was when the ref blew to start the match

 

Absolute bollocks excuses imo

[Guest alex]

When you look at how deep they sat late on we might have somehow scraped a draw if it was 11 v 11 at the end but we were completely outplayed in the 2nd half and Stevenage thoroughly deserved their victory. It was more the final nail in the coffin than the turning point.

Edited January 10, 2011 by alex

[AmericanMag 0]

best bit is they'll likely be getting Exeter or someone of that level of shite in the next round and getting trounced

 

 

They get Reading at home.