Newcastle United v Arsenal match thread

Lovely strike by N'Zogbia, good thing it went straight at Almunia. It should have been an Arsenal freekick beforehand though for Barton clattering into Toure.

Come on Newcastle, play the game, surrender without a fight like you did against Liverpool.

Agooner wrote:Toure injured

no he isn't

Adebayor struggling with the concept of 'offside' there. We should have made much more of that chance.

f@ck

Taylor equalises. Rubbish defending from Arsenal and Newcastle probably deserved that.

We've been far too sloppy in this half. These are problems of our own making.

we should switch back to 4-4-2

bendtner on please

What a strike by Steven Taylor

I don't care what anyone else says, Alan Smith has played very well so far.

Spankeltoe wrote:I don't care what anyone else says, Alan Smith has played very well so far.

A sight to behold.

Bendtner on for Eduardo. I think that makes sense. We've been very poor in this half and Newcastle are playing at a much higher tempo and are forcing plenty of mistakes.

diarra should go easy a bit

Fucks sake Newcastle, should have converted one of them

Poor referee. Two clear fouls by the last man.

Eboue is a fucking clown.

1-1 FT

Happy with a point.

Kudo's to Newcastle, they deserved the point.

Spankeltoe wrote:Eboue is a fucking clown.

All you have to do is tickle him and he'll go down in a coma.

Taylor should've definitely gone, tbh. Adebayor was in after the short backpass.

It was a good advert for the EPL

Smith MotM.

Dropped points for Arsenal, I'd take that and a few FF points thanks to Adabayor, good result

El Gaffer™ wrote:

Spankeltoe wrote:Eboue is a fucking clown.

All you have to do is tickle him and he'll go down in a coma.

Taylor should've definitely gone, tbh. Adebayor was in after the short backpass.

Nah, Given would have got it. Taylor should definitely have been off though.

c**t ref. We need decisions from refs, Come on Wenger, we'e got more money than shittypool, we can easily out pay whatever they're paying.

Owen wrote:

El Gaffer wrote:

Spankeltoe wrote:Eboue is a fucking clown.

All you have to do is tickle him and he'll go down in a coma.

Taylor should've definitely gone, tbh. Adebayor was in after the short backpass.

Nah, Given would have got it. Taylor should definitely have been off though.

Yup.

Funny How Taylor went down grabbing his face though...

El Gaffer wrote:

Owen wrote:

El Gaffer wrote:

Spankeltoe wrote:Eboue is a fucking clown.

All you have to do is tickle him and he'll go down in a coma.

Taylor should've definitely gone, tbh. Adebayor was in after the short backpass.

Nah, Given would have got it. Taylor should definitely have been off though.

Yup.

Funny How Taylor went down grabbing his face though...

The Puyol of England.

I'll settle for a 1-1. We certainly didn't deserve any more than one point. Credit to Newcastle, the best performance I've seen from them for a long time. Their effort was exceptional so fair play to them. I wasn't overly impressed with the referee. He let the game flow which is fair enough but I thought he ignored too many fouls from both sides. That block at the end was particularly cynical. Still, Newcastle is always a tough game for us and I'm pleased to pick up four points from our last two games, particularly with the players we have out. It wasn't a good performance but we are still in a strong position in the league. Hopefully no one has picked up any injuries from tonight's game.

shazlx-mas wrote:c**t ref. We need decisions from refs, Come on Wenger, we'e got more money than shittypool, we can easily out pay whatever they're paying.

1) You may not be getting them because you have about 5 players surrounding the ref every 3 minutes, Toure is ridiculous

2) What decisions do we get really? and do you have more money? I'm not so sure

Good game. Much better from us.

On the two "fouls" at the end there, the first one was a case of the forward looking for something at the first sign of contact, the Taylor one was probably a foul though. But hey Oba wasn't offside at the end of the first half so we'll call it evens.

Bloody hell, where would Newcastle be without our ex-players.

Just shows if you get at Arsenal then they you can stop them playing their brilliant football and get points off them