Newcastle United vs Aston Villa match banter!
Posted on February 5th, 2012 | 106 Comments |
Date: 5th February 2012
Kick Off: 1.30pm
Referee: Mark Halsey.
Good afternoon Geordies and welcome to our regular “match banter” feature for this afternoon’s early kick-off against Aston Villa at St James’ Park.
Despite being a fair sized Premiership team, unlike Newcastle United they tend to pass under the radar of most due to being incredibly dull and boring, especially under their current manager, the dull and boring Alex McLeish. However, as quite a few Toon fans who were there when we were relegated at Villa Park in 2009 will testify, some of their supporters can be a nasty lot sometimes.
Some of us will not forget their taunting chants and thoughtfully prepared banners, to be displayed in the case of us being relegated on that fateful day (see photos below). On the rare occaisions they’ve come on this site, they’ve also been spoiling for a fight for some bizarre reason too. It certainly isn’t a Birmingham thing though. When supporters of their neighbours and rivals, Birmingham City, come on here they have been the exact opposite, and have quite possibly been the nicest “visitors” we’ve had on here, so much so that I was almost delighted when they got St. Christopher as ther manager at St. Andrews. But I digress.
Anyway, I sincerely hope that the Geordies at St James’ Park this afternoon prepare a nice “winter warmer welcome” for the Villans when they arrive at Barrack Road. Apologies for the little rant above but apart from that, Aston Villa just fill me with inertia and I find it very hard to write anything remotely “interesting” about them. My colleague UTD111 has had a jolly good go though, so if you are looking for an in depth look forward to the game, I would highly recommend his excellent match preview for this game.
Now I’ve got all that off my chest, it only leaves me to remind you that I will be posting the official teamsheets when they become available, and also that this game will be televised in the UK on Sky Sports 1.
Howay the lads!
Team sheets
Newcastle United (4-4-2): Tim Krul (G), Danny Simpson, Mike Williamson, Fabricio Coloccini (C), Ryan Taylor, davide Santon, James Perch, Danny Guthrie, Jonas Gutierrez, Leon Best, Demba Ba.
Subs: Rob Elliot (G), Shane Ferguson, Dan Gosling, Gabriel Obertan, Hatem Ben Arfa, Shola Ameobi, Papiss Cisse.
Aston Villa (4-4-1-1): Shay Given (G), Alan Hutton, Richard Dunne (c), Carlos Cuellar, Stephen Warnock; Stephen Ireland, Ciaran Clark, Stiliyan Petrov, Charles N’Zogbia; Robbie Keane, Darren Bent.
Subs: Brad Guzan, Andreas Weimann, Eric Lichaj, Gary Gardner, Barry Bannan, Nathan Baker, Emile Heskey.
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Looks like a 4-4-2 Worky, Ba in for Ameobi, and Perch in for Ben Arfa. Cisse on the bench.