Result: NUFC 4-3 Manchester City
It's now 6 wins from 8 for Souness and 12 points from 15 after a storming,
heart stopping, spills and thrills packed afternoon of sheer unadulterated
entertainment at St. James' Park as our former King of the Castle
saw his Manchester City team lose to a last minute Craig Bellamy goal.
Giving the Toon a 4-3 win and all 3 points to move us up into 6th
in the Premiership.
After a goalless and fairly uneventful first-half that we pretty much
dominated without really threatening that much, 52,316 fans were treat
to a 7 goal thriller in the second period with Newcastle racing into
a 2-0 lead thanks to Laurent Robert's first of the season and first
in 28 games after the Frenchman rocketed in a free-kick. Our second
come courtesy of an Alan Shearer pen after Stephen Carr was tripped
in the box as the No. 9 chases Wor Jackie's record - Big Al's 8th
of the campaign.
With 58 minutes on the clock we were coasting and City were buried.
Then the fight-back began with a Sean Wright-Phillips goal and Robbie
Fowler penalty after Butt tripped him dragging KK's men back into
the game. 2-2 with 67 minutes gone and game on.
Then 2 minutes later Newcastle went back in front with Robbie Eliott
getting his first goal since 2001, heading in Robert's free-kick.
City responded again just 6 minutes after with Wright-Phillips getting
his second of the game. But with the game heading towards a draw up
popped Craig Bellamy in the 89th minute to clinch the winner.
A pulsating and magnificent afternoon's feast. I'm knackered. Well
done Souey and the lads and hard to bare KK.
Full match report and player ratings to follow...
Souness Wants 4 New Players But No Duff Signings
Souness quotes from Sky Sports:
"We have been linked with Damien Duff but I am not sure if he'll want
to leave London.
"But that's the type of class player we want in order to improve
this squad because he is of the highest standard.
"We have some good players here but if we want to do well we
need a few additions. We are light.
"I will probably spoil the chairman's breakfast on Sunday morning
when he reads this. But I've got a relationship with him and I will
tell him we need to strengthen with maybe four more players."
Chopra Scores Again For Barnsley - His 3rd Goal
Michael Chopra is doing his best to silence the boo boys at Barnsley,
scoring his 2nd goal in a week for the Yorkshire team with a well
taken strike just inside the box in a 2-2 draw against Swindon Town
at Oakwell. Barnsley manager Paul hart wants Chopra to extend his
loan spell, but revealed the Toon striker might not want to after
getting abuse off the fans. Keep scoring lad. Well done!
Under-18s: NUFC 1-1 Sheffield United
Newcastle's Academy side kept up their unbeaten run with a 1-1 draw
against Sheffield United at Little Benton yesterday afternoon. A Carl
Finnigan goal brung United level after Ashmore opened the scoring
for the Blades.
United: Bartlett, Atkin, Devedics, Huntington, Edgar, Shanks, Marshall,
P O'Brien, Terrell, Walton, Finnigan.
9 Years Ago Today
A trip down memory lane...
9 years ago to this day, on a cold Sunday afternoon at the Dell, Kevin
Keegan's high flying Newcastle were beaten by two stupendous Matthew
Le Tissier goals in front of the Sky cameras with goalie Mike Hooper
picking up the blame by the Toon Army and the press the following
day. Andy Cole scored United's consolation goal and a certain Peter
Reid played in midfield for the Saints. This game was made famous
by Lee Clark's tantrum where he kicked a microphone after coming off
as a substitute for Alex Mathie and from that moment on Clarkie never
really got back into the picture at his home town team.
October proved to be a difficult month for Keegan and his team with
3 defeats but the Toon went onto finish 3rd in the League to qualify
for Europe with Andy Cole scoring 41 goals.
Teams:
United: Hooper, Watson, Beresford, Venison, Scott, Bracewell, Lee,
Clark (Mathie), Cole, Beardsley, Allen (Sellars).
Southampton: Flowers, Kenna, Moore (Moody), Wood, Adams, Reid, Maddison,
Allen, Benali, Dowie, Le Tissier.
Att: 13,804 |
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