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Newcastle v BWFC Sunday 15th October 2006

 

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 Speedoso 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."Dioufy scores 2

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.

 
 
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