Dioufy comes
good with
two goals
inside two
minutes to
turn around
a game that
before the
goals saw
Bolton
dominated by
the home
side.
However,
Roeder's
team's self
destruct
button came
into play
when their
defence were
caught ball
watching -
this
ultimately
lost them
the game!
Well I was
in the
middle of
rewiring
Richard's
house when
the game was
on so we
missed bits
as I had to
turn off the
power now
and then!
Once we
scored two
the wiring
was kicked
into touch
and we
concentrated
on the
game!!!
Dioufy
scores two
more goals!
I never did!
The Geordies
weren't best
pleased with
Dioufy and
they booed
him - nice.
He also
kicked off
with the
Newcastle
officials as
he went down
the tunnel
after being
substituted
at 87
minutes. And
he got a
yellow card
for being
fowled -
what's that
all about??
Still at
least the
dodgy at
best penalty
didn't cost
us.
Speedo
called me up
after the
game
so
I asked him
about
Dioufy......"He's
got his
faults, as
we all
have,"
admitted
Speedo,
after
Dioufy's two
goals in 95
seconds
propelled us
up to third
in the
Premiership.
After
recently
suggesting
that he sees
Bolton as a
stepping
stone to
bigger and
better
things, he
perhaps owed
his
employers a
performance,
which he
duly
produced.
"He's a good
lad, great
in the
dressing-room,"
added Speed,
in
mitigation.
"He's always
laughing and
joking and
winding the
lads up." He
managed the
winding-up
part quite
easily with
the
Newcastle
fans, whose
manager,
Glenn
Roeder, was
rather less
charitable
in his
appraisal.
"Most weeks
players get
frustrated
with him.
His
reputation
goes before
him. It's
not as if
it's
something
new that our
lads have
experienced
today."
Newcastle
went ahead
through
Shola
Ameobi's
disputed
19th-minute
penalty, the
first League
goal Bolton
had shipped
in 384
minutes, but
had not
heeded
defender
Peter
Ramage's
programme
piece,
entitled "We
must learn
to hold the
lead". This
was the
third
consecutive
time they
have taken
the lead at
home, but
have only a
point to
show for it.
"That
comeback's a
measure of
how far
we've come
on this
season,"
said Big Sam
"We upped
the tempo in
the second
half and put
Newcastle
under more
pressure and
it worked an
absolute
treat."
Having
benefited
from an
erring
assistant
referee in
the win over
Liverpool,
We were this
time on the
wrong end of
a dubious
decision as
Glenn Turner
ruled that
Abdoulaye
Faye had
halted an
Obafemi
Martins
cross with
his hand.
Very dubious
indeed -
especially
as there
were more
similar
incidents
and one
stone wall
penalty that
we were
denied! Home
team
benefits I
guess...
Ameobi
sent Jussi
Jaaskelainen
the wrong
way. Of the
four
Premiership
goals Bolton
have
conceded
this season,
three have
been
penalties.
"It was
dubious,"
Speed said.
"It's one of
those where
if you are
at home then
you get
them."
With such
defensive
frailties,
Newcastle
are a team
in dire need
of a second
goal to wrap
up a
victory, and
it should
have arrived
as Ramage
was faced
with an open
goal from
six yards as
Ameobi
knocked down
Damien
Duff's
centre. The
defender
found only
the
Gallowgate.
"It would
have been a
different
game had
that gone
in," Roeder
said.
Our lads
then fully
exploited
the
reprieve.
Nicolas
Anelka
embarrassed
the
floundering
Stephen Carr
to square
for Diouf to
level on 55
minutes,
Titus
Bramble
having
neglected
his marking
duties to
leave the
striker with
ample time
and space to
apply a
close range
finish.
A first
Bolton win
here since
1959 was
sealed when
Kevin Davies
beat Bramble
and Ramage
in the air
to flick on
an Ivan
Campo
free-kick
for the
lurking
striker, who
nodded in
his third
goal of the
season.
"It was
disastrous
defending,"
Roeder said,
after seeing
his side
pick up just
four points
from their
last seven
games.
"We're
shooting
ourselves in
the foot
with
unacceptable
defending.
The only
thing you
can do is
get back to
the training
ground and
work hard,"
he added,
echoing
increasingly
hollow
sentiments
similar to
the previous
home game,
which have
clearly gone
unheeded.
We've
kindly
borrowed
some nice
video for
you to
watch!!
Goals:
Ameobi (pen)
1-0 (19),
Diouf 1-1
(55) and 1-2
(57).
Newcastle
United
(4-4-2):
Harper;
Carr,
Bramble,
Moore,
Ramage;
Solano
(N'Zogbia
67), Parker,
Emre (Rossi
84), Duff;
Ameobi,
Martins.
Substitutes
not used:
Srnicek (gk),
Sibierski.
Bolton
Wanderers
(4-5-1):
Jaaskelainen;
Hunt, Faye,
Meite, Ben
Haim;
Davies,
Nolan,
Campo,
Speed, Diouf
(Giannakopoulos
87); Anelka.
Substitutes
not used:
Walker (gk),
Fortune, Vaz
Te, Tal.
Referee:
A Wiley
(Staffordshire).
Booked:
Newcastle:
Solano,
Emre, Moore.
Bolton:
Speed,
Diouf,
Nolan.
Man of
the match:
Diouf.
Attendance:
48,145.