Arsenal vs Newcastle United match banter!
Posted on December 29th, 2012 | 94 Comments |
Date: Sat 29th December, 2012.
Kick off: 5.30pm.
Referee: Chris Foy.
UK TV: ESPN.
In the run up to this game, much of the emphasis has been on the rather petty spat between Alex Ferguson and Alan Pardew over Ferguson’s behaviour in our previous game with Manchester United, with the purple nosed supremo demeaning himself even further by making some rather childish comments about Newcastle United and Alan Pardew which I won’t go into here.
So it’s on with another tricky Christmas holiday fixture, another away one, this time against Arsenal. Before that however a quick note: Although I have posted this match banter, I will be busy during the game itself, hence I may not be able to publish the team sheets when they come out as usual. One more thing is links for the game. As you can see at the top, this game will broadcast live on ESPN in the UK, though if you can’t get it, you should be able to find some links to watch it online at http://www.wiziwig.tv and also http://www.footballstreaming.info.
One more thing is that although I didn’t prepare a full match preview for this game due to Christmas commitments (sorry about that), I did manage to make a contribution to the rather extensive match preview in the excellent Arsenal ‘blog, “Berkampesque,” which you can find by following the link.
Meanwhile, in the run up to the game, Alan Pardew has been attempting to put a rather perplexing “spin” on Newcastle United’s disappointing season so far, saying:
“You take November out of the calendar year and you have to say what a bloody great year we had. But unfortunately November soured it and it’s put us in a tricky position for this first half of the season.”
However, as with many of Pardew’s statements, this doesn’t really bear up if you examine it closely. For a start, Newcastle United’s record in December so far (which isn’t November for any of you who might be confused like Pardew), Newcastle’s record has been (most recent first) L|W|L|L|L|W, which is hardly the form of a team having a “bloody great year” apart from November. Here’s hoping we can ’round off December with one more “W” though, or at least a “D” before 2013 is upon us, which will surely lift the spirts of we fans somewhat.
So that’s about it for now, except to say:
Howay the Lads!
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perplexing spin indeed. it’s been going downhill since may, a desperate summer on the transfer front and since then… why pick out november, august was mediocre as were september and october and december has hardly been anything to write home about. so i make that a third of the year where there was anything to be encouraged by… perplexing spin indeed…