Champions league? We're having a laugh...
Another miserable away match, which is self-inflicted and the referee the main talking point. How many times do we have to suffer everytime we have an away match. Playing well until a point where the referee made a bad decision or lack of discipline and self inflicted wounds coming back to haunt us. This time the culprit is Shola Ameobi.
I wouldn't say Everton deserves to be in the champions league but they are at 4th spot aren't they? Throughout the season, Everton have always depended on hard work, the referee and luck. Lots of it until there aren't too many for the rest of the team to use especially us. Lady luck hasn't shine on us since the beginning of the season. So this results didn't surprise me at all. We had the home team ragged and looked like an averaga team. Well, they are an average team, no doubt.
Yet again we had chances to score and win it and yet again we fail to take it and were punished. Their first goal came from a free kick which wasn't a free kick in the first place. Boumsong adjuged to have foul Bent. Everyone thought there wasn't anything on it but the ref, Barry Knight, thought otherwise. And by the way, this is the same referee that sent off Bowyer, Dyer and Taylor in the game against Villa a t home. We lost the match 3 nil with him having a bad game. Poor decisions costing us that day and again, it proved that lighting do strike twice. Geez....
So free kick given, and David Weir was given a free header to head home the first goal albeit against the run of play. N'zogbia was the guarding the far post and could have done better. Again we see the naivity of an 18 year old :( After the goal, felt like we've kicked in the teeth. But we've been kicked so many times before that there's nothing much left really. Second half resumed with us tryign to get a goal until a moment of madness from Ameobi. He took a senseless swipe at Tim Cahill( i would have done the same thing) and received a straight red card. Cahill promptly went up the other end and made it 2-0. Cahill should imho, been off too. Not from a straigth red but for a second yellow card. He lunged stupidly at Given and got away with it. He should have gotten a yellow there plus the yellow he got from tugging Ameobi. Right there, the referee has made a blunder and imo cost us the game. Cahill is another little wanker and be sure he will receive a hot reception when he comes to our place next season. He might be technically sound(not gifted) but his attitude and character is just rotten.
Once again Newcastle fans had a grandstand view of our self-inflicted stupidity and a ref who clearly dislikes us was given the bullets to fire at us. A fitting way to end a miserable season on the road and disgracefully the defeat means we are certain to finish in the bottom half of the Premiership with 15th position still possible.
Team: Given, Carr (Ramage 45), Boumsong, Bramble, Babayaro, Ambrose, N'Zogbia, Jenas, Milner (Shearer 82), Ameobi, Kluivert.
Subs n/u: Andrew O'Brien, Harper, Robert.
Booked: Kluivert.
Sent Off: Ameobi (56).
Everton Martyn, Hibbert, Yobo, Weir, Watson, Carsley, Bent (McFadden 74), Cahill (Stubbs 89), Arteta, Kilbane, Ferguson (Beattie 63).
Subs n/u: Wright, Pistone.
Booked: Carsley, Cahill, Arteta.
Goals: Weir 43, Cahill 59.
Crowd: 40,438
Referee: Barry Knight (Kent).
I wouldn't say Everton deserves to be in the champions league but they are at 4th spot aren't they? Throughout the season, Everton have always depended on hard work, the referee and luck. Lots of it until there aren't too many for the rest of the team to use especially us. Lady luck hasn't shine on us since the beginning of the season. So this results didn't surprise me at all. We had the home team ragged and looked like an averaga team. Well, they are an average team, no doubt.
Yet again we had chances to score and win it and yet again we fail to take it and were punished. Their first goal came from a free kick which wasn't a free kick in the first place. Boumsong adjuged to have foul Bent. Everyone thought there wasn't anything on it but the ref, Barry Knight, thought otherwise. And by the way, this is the same referee that sent off Bowyer, Dyer and Taylor in the game against Villa a t home. We lost the match 3 nil with him having a bad game. Poor decisions costing us that day and again, it proved that lighting do strike twice. Geez....
So free kick given, and David Weir was given a free header to head home the first goal albeit against the run of play. N'zogbia was the guarding the far post and could have done better. Again we see the naivity of an 18 year old :( After the goal, felt like we've kicked in the teeth. But we've been kicked so many times before that there's nothing much left really. Second half resumed with us tryign to get a goal until a moment of madness from Ameobi. He took a senseless swipe at Tim Cahill( i would have done the same thing) and received a straight red card. Cahill promptly went up the other end and made it 2-0. Cahill should imho, been off too. Not from a straigth red but for a second yellow card. He lunged stupidly at Given and got away with it. He should have gotten a yellow there plus the yellow he got from tugging Ameobi. Right there, the referee has made a blunder and imo cost us the game. Cahill is another little wanker and be sure he will receive a hot reception when he comes to our place next season. He might be technically sound(not gifted) but his attitude and character is just rotten.
Once again Newcastle fans had a grandstand view of our self-inflicted stupidity and a ref who clearly dislikes us was given the bullets to fire at us. A fitting way to end a miserable season on the road and disgracefully the defeat means we are certain to finish in the bottom half of the Premiership with 15th position still possible.
Team: Given, Carr (Ramage 45), Boumsong, Bramble, Babayaro, Ambrose, N'Zogbia, Jenas, Milner (Shearer 82), Ameobi, Kluivert.
Subs n/u: Andrew O'Brien, Harper, Robert.
Booked: Kluivert.
Sent Off: Ameobi (56).
Everton Martyn, Hibbert, Yobo, Weir, Watson, Carsley, Bent (McFadden 74), Cahill (Stubbs 89), Arteta, Kilbane, Ferguson (Beattie 63).
Subs n/u: Wright, Pistone.
Booked: Carsley, Cahill, Arteta.
Goals: Weir 43, Cahill 59.
Crowd: 40,438
Referee: Barry Knight (Kent).
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