Not sure that is true though. Remember him commenting on the farce of the process the FAI had organised after Charlton left and how he would love to have been the Irish manager.
Joe Kinnear will have to sit in the stands for the first two games of his Newcastle tenure.
Heās to serve the ban for comments made to the officials in his last game in charge of Nots Forest in 2004.
You have to laugh.
[quote=āBandageā]Joe Kinnear will have to sit in the stands for the first two games of his Newcastle tenure.
Heās to serve the ban for comments made to the officials in his last game in charge of Nots Forest in 2004.
You have to laugh.[/quote]
Farcicalā¦
2 down @ half time to Blackburn
Too good to go down?
Ah thatās comical. The FA never forgetā¦
I see big Joe was getting jibes about being a cockney today, he had to point out (in a cockney accent) that he was in fact Irish!
Newcastle United are set to capture Steven Carr on a short term deal until the end of season. Carr was last seen masquerading as a Premiership right full back for, er, Newcastle at the tail end of last season. Interim Manager Joe Kinnear sees this as a step forward rather than just another reason for people to laugh at Newcastle. I know what Iām doing said Joe.
Give Joe a chance! people like u sicken me, ready to pounce on him the minute he does sumthing he thinks will help the club! Lets just hope Ashley f*cks off b4 they get relegated!!
Super first post, Flano will be along any minute to say hi and bandage will have a questionaire.
By the way, Stephen Carr.
Fucking priceless.
hello cloughjordan fc fan,
The last time I played soccer against cloughjordan fc I bagged myself a hat-trick in a youths game. Willie Dāarcy bagged one in return for ye in a pulsating 5-5 draw.
This is sensational.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2008/oct/03/newcastleunited.premierleague
The following is an edited transcript of Newcastle interim manager Joe Kinnearās first official press conference yesterday:
JK Which one is Simon Bird [Daily Mirrorās north-east football writer]?
SB Me.
JK Youāre a cunt.
SB Thank you.
JK Which one is Hickman [Niall, football writer for the Express]? You are out of order. Absolutely fucking out of order. If you do it again, I am telling you you can fuck off and go to another ground. I will not come and stand for that fucking crap. No fucking way, lies. Fuck, youāre saying I turned up and they [Newcastleās players] fucked off.
SB No Joe, have you read it, it doesnāt actually say that. Have you read it?
JK Iāve fucking read it, Iāve read it.
SB It doesnāt say that. Have you read it?
JK You are trying to fucking undermine my position already.
SB Have you read it, it doesnāt say that. I knew you knew they were having a day off.
JK Fuck off. Fuck off. Itās your last fucking chance.
SB You read the copy? It doesnāt say that you didnāt know.
JK What about the headline, you think thatās a good headline?
SB I didnāt write the headline, you read the copy.
JK You are negative bastards, the pair of you.
SB So if I get a new job next week would I take the first day off? No I wouldnāt. If I get a new job should I call my boss and tell him I am taking the first day off?
JK It is none of your fucking business. What the fuck are you going to do? You aināt got the balls to be a fucking manager. Fucking day off. Do I want your opinion. Do I have to listen to you?
SB No, you can listen to who you want.
JK I had a 24-hour meeting with the entire staff.
SB Joe, you are only here six weeks, you could have done that on Sunday, or Saturday night.
JK No, no, no. I didnāt want to do it. I had some other things to do.
SB What? More important things?
JK What are you? My personal secretary? Fuck off.
SB You could have done the meeting Saturday night or Sunday. You could have had them watching videos, you could have organised them.
JK I was meeting the fucking chairman the owner, everyone else. Talking about things.
SB It is a valid point that was made in there. A valid point.
JK I canāt trust any of you.
Niall Hickman Joe, no one could believe that on your first day at your new club, the first-team players were not in. No one could believe it in town. Your first day in the office.
JK My first day was with the coaches. I made the decision that I wanted to get as much information out of them.
NH But why Monday, no one could believe it?
JK Iām not going to tell you anything. I donāt understand where you are coming from. You are delighted that Newcastle are getting beat and are in the state they are? Delighted, are you?
NH Certainly not. No one wants to see them get beaten, why would we?
JK I have done it before. It is going to my fucking lawyers. So are about three others. If they can find something in it that is a court case it is going to court. I am not fucking about. I donāt talk to fucking anybody. It is raking up stories. You are fucking so fucking slimy you are raking up players that I got rid of. Players that I had fallen out with. You are not asking Robbie Earle, because he is sensible. You are not asking Warren Barton? No. Because he is fucking sensible. Anyone who had played for me for 10 years at any level ā¦ [but] you will find some cunt that ā¦
Other journalist How long is your contract for Joe?
JK None of your business.
SB Well it is actually, because we cover the club. The club say you are here to the end of October, then you say six to eight games which would take it to the end of November. We are trying to clarify these issues. We are getting no straight answers from anyone. How long are you here for. It is a dead simple question. And you donāt know ā¦
JK I was told the length of contract. Then I was told that possibly the club could be sold in that time. That is as far as I know. Thatās it finished. I donāt know anything else. But I have been ridiculed. Heās trying to fucking hide, heās trying to do this or that.
There follows an exchange regarding the circumstances under which Kinnear had met the owner Mike Ashley and executive director (football) Dennis Wise.
Steve Brenner (football writer for the Sun) We are all grown men and can come in here and sit around and talk about football, but coming in here and calling people cunts?
JK Why? Because I am annoyed. I am not accepting that. If it is libellous, it is going to where I want it to go.
Newcastle press officer What has been said in here is off the record and doesnāt go outside.
Journalist Well, is that what Joe thinks?
JK Write what you like. Makes no difference to me. Donāt affect me I assure you. Itāll be the last time I see you anyway. Wonāt affect me. See how we go at Everton and Chrissy [Chris Hughton, assistant manager] can do it, someone else can do it. Donāt trust any of yous. I will pick two local papers and speak to them and the rest can fuck off. I aināt coming up here to have the piss taken out of me. I have a million pages of crap that has been written about me. Iām ridiculed for no reason. Iām defenceless. I canāt get a point in, I canāt say nothing, I canāt do nothing, but I aināt going to be negative. Then, half of you, most of you are trying to get into the players. Iām not going to tell you what the players think of you, so then you try and get into them in some way or another, so Iāve got a split camp or something like that, something like that. Itās ongoing. It just doesnāt stop.
Journalist Itās only been a week.
JK Exactly. It feels more like a year.
Journalist Itās early days for you to be like this.
JK No, Iām clearing the air. And this is the last time Iām going to speak to you. You want to know why, Iām telling you. This is the last time. You can do what you like.
Journalist But this isnāt going to do you or us any good.
JK Iāll speak to the supporters. Iām going to tell them what the story is. Iām going to tell them. I donāt think theyāll interpret it any different, I donāt think theyāll mix it up, I donāt think theyāll miss out things. I mean, one of them last week said to me ā¦ I was talking about in that press conference where you were there, I said something like āWell, thatās a load of bollocks ā¦ā
Journalist āBollocks to thatā is what you said.
JK Bollocks to that. And what goes after that?
Journalist That was it.
JK No it wasnāt, no it wasnāt. What was after it? I donāt know if it was your paper, but what went after it?
Journalist I donāt know.
JK It even had the cheek to say ābollocks to Newcastleā.
Journalist I didnāt write that.
JK That was my first fucking day. What does that tell you? What does that tell you?
Journalist Where was that? Which paper said that?
JK Iāve got it. I canāt remember. It was one of the Sundays, not a Saturday. It was a Sunday.
Journalist But you didnāt say that to the Sundays, you said that to us. That was during the Monday press conference.
JK Iāll bring it in and show it to you. Why would I want to say that?
Journalist Are you saying that someone has reported you saying ābollocks to Newcastle?ā
JK Yes. Lovely.
Journalist I donāt know whoās reported that.
JK Iāll tell you what, Iāll bring it in.
Journalist Thatās obviously going to damage you. Thatās not a good thing. But I donāt think someoneās done that. We have to have some sort of relationship with you.
JK So have I. But I havenāt come in here for you lot to take the piss out of me. And if Iām not flavour of the month for you, it donāt fucking bother me. Iāve got a job to do. And Iām going to do it to the best of my ability. Iām not going to spend any more time listening to any crap or reading any crap. Stick to the truth and the facts. And donāt twist anything.
Journalist You know, you know the game ā¦
JK Of course I know, but I donāt have to like it.
Journalist Today weāll print the absolute truth, that you think weāre cunts, we can all fuck off and weāre slimy. Is that fair enough?
JK Do it. Fine. Fucking print it. Am I going to worry about it? Put in also that itāll be the last time I see you. Put that in as well. Good. Do it.
Much, much later after long discussions over whether Kinnear had promised Alan Shearer and Kevin Keegan would be returning to the club
Press officer Letās get on to football. Letās have an agreement that everything said so far, if anyone has got their tapes on, itās wiped off and weāre not discussing it.
Journalist But thatās what Joe has said he thinks of us.
Press officer Iām saying donāt push it. Letās accept whatās been said and try and move on.
Journalist: Move on to not doing any more press conferences?
PO: No, to doing something now.
Journalist: What, one press conference only?
(Silence)
Journalist: Any knocks?
PO: Come on, letās go football.
Journalist: What are your plans for training in the next three days? Howās the training going?
JK Itās going very well. No problems at all.
Journalist Enjoyed getting back in the swing of things?
JK Absolutely. Iāve loved every moment of it.
that is brilliant stuff.
Have to laugh at the press officer trying to make out the whole thing should be kept off the record with Kinnear telling them to print what they want. Priceless stuff.
fiar fucks to kinnear tho, showing a bit of balls and bite to him still. journalists are cunts and try to make a story out of nothing, and at least Kinnear was honest with them and didnt give the usual cliche responses.
Audio here. Comical.
Yeah I think Kinnear comes out of that very well to be honest. Journalists hiding behind āI donāt write the headlinesā or āthat was the Sundays, why say that to us?ā are just running from the fact that they donāt want to stand over the shite they print in their pathetic articles because itās all unsubstantiated myths. Kinnear has nothing to lose - he doesnāt need a relationship with the media beyond his local papers and I think heās perfectly right to get antagonistic with people whoāve been antagonistic with him.
I think itās a bizarre appointment but I hope he does well (and then they get rid of him and turn to shite again).
I thought it was a piss take - cant believe it actually happened!
I like auld Joe, a straight shooting cockney Irish punk. He didnāt say much out of the way. Swear words are the vernacular for most people.
Like fuck they are.
tony jimeniz has quit his job as head of player recruitment(or whatever it was) todayā¦wonder are the FA looking for him to take brian barwicks old jobā¦
Kevin Keegan is suing Newcastle United for 9million in damages after claiming unfair dismissal following his departure as manager last month.
The 57-year-oldās second stint in charge on Tyneside ended in acrimonious circumstances after a bust-up with owner Mike Ashley.
Keegan has begun legal proceedings against the club demanding full payment of his three-and-a-half-year contract, according to the London Evening Standard.
It is believed Keegan claims he signed a deal to return to Newcastle on the condition that he was given total control of all first-team affairs.
But the former England boss believes Dennis Wiseās role as director of football infringed upon the terms of that agreement and made his position untenable.
The transfer of striker Xisco from Deportivo on deadline day is thought to have particularly riled Keegan, who had minimal knowledge a deal would be struck.
It is unclear whether Newcastle will launch a counter claim for breach of contract, as the club declined to comment.
This latest legal wrangle marks the further deterioration of Ashleyās relationship with the man who took the club from bottom of the old Second Division to Premier League runners-up and Champions League participants in his first spell in charge between 1992-97.
The retail entrepreneur has become a hate figure in the north east following Keeganās departure, although the club issued a statement denying Ashley subsequently held talks with Keegan in a bid to resolve the dispute but no solution was reached and Joe Kinnear has since been appointed interim manager while the club look for new owners.
Michael Owen will be out for 10 days after sustaining a groin injury in training with Newcastle.
The England striker will miss the Barclays Premier League game against Manchester City on Monday.
Newcastle are going down.