Newcastle United

[Liverpel]

Didn't Kinnear struggle to pronounce a player's name when he was last at Newcastle. Didn't the player threaten to leave the club because of it?

Ah, here it is.


Newcastle's awful season took another turn for the worse as boss Joe Kinnear accused Charles N'Zogbia of trying to engineer a move away from the Magpies.

The French midfielder, 22, was unhappy Kinnear mis-pronounced his name, calling him "Insomnia", in an interview after the Manchester City defeat.
And N'Zogbia reportedly said he would never play for the club under Kinnear.
"Sadly, this just smacks of a desperate attempt to engineer a move away from Newcastle United," said the manager.

"OK, I got a little tongue-tied, but if I had a pound for every time I've mis-pronounced a player's name down the years, then I'd be a very wealthy man indeed."

[Shaggy]

"Gauterrez"

[Shaggy]

"Yohan Kebab" trending on Twitter

What a car crash

[lucas]

Didn't Kinnear struggle to pronounce a player's name when he was last at Newcastle. Didn't the player threaten to leave the club because of it?

Was that player Charlie Insomnia???

[Liverpel]

Was that player Charlie Insomnia???

Yes. Yes it was.

How's it going young lad?

[Fredo]

Ashley is an absolute joke

[Fredo]

He had "the best team in the world at Tottenham"

[lucas]

Yes. Yes it was.

How's it going young lad?

It goes well! Having a good laugh at the Newcastle fan who sits beside me at work. Everyone should have one at work!

[peekay]

Newcastle fans claim their club has been turned into a laughing stock after new director of football Joe Kinnear gave a cringeworthy defence of his job .

The former Toon boss gave a radio interview a day after he announced himself that he had taken the position at St James’ Park.

Kinnear took to the airwaves after the appointment was greeted with widespread criticism from the Magpies' fans.

But instead of clarifying his position, he launched into a gaffe-strewn rant against the fans and media, while repeatedly getting the names wrong of players and management wrong – including pronouncing Yohan Cabaye as ‘Cabab’.

He also claimed to have signed a player who had already been at the club for several years when he arrived.


He referred to managing director Derek Lambias as ‘Lambezee’, Yohan Cabaye as ‘Cababs’, Shola Ameobi as 'Amanobi', Jonas Gutierrez as 'Gaultierez' and Hatem Ben Arfa as both ‘Ben Afrie’ and 'Ben Afra'.

When asked about supporter unrest, he said on talkSPORT: “Look at my record. These people ask what have I done. Where have these people been - on another planet? I’ve played in five Cup Finals and won the lot. I played more than 400 games for Tottenham Hotspur.

“Already they’re jumping on the bandwagon and saying, ‘look out, Pards’. But I expect it, it’s water off a duck’s a**e.”

Kinnear, who actually made 258 appearances for Spurs, said he will meet manager Alan Pardew on Tuesday as both men attempt to establish some boundaries.

The 66-year-old, who managed the Geordies in the 2008-09 season - which ended in them being relegated from the Premier League - claimed to have brought keeper Tim Krul, who made his Magpies debut in 2006, to the club.

He also claimed to have paid £50,000 for striker Dean Holdworth when Wimbledon manager (actual figure: £720,000) and to have been Manager of the Year three times (he was LMA Manager of the Year in 1994).

Reliving his infamous rant at reporters in October 2008, Kinnear also claimed his Newcastle side had beaten Spurs that night, 2-1.

However, the incident happened on a Thursday, and the Magpies had not played since the previous Saturday - when they LOST 2-1 to Blackburn.

Newcastle fans immediately took to talkSPORT and social media to express their embarrassment and anger:

http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/joe-kinnears-newcastle-return-mistake-filled-1959361#ixzz2WWN2sGGU

[-V-]

Fantastic I work with a hardcore Geordie, this season will be fun

[peekay]

And then there was the daddy of them all, when a nugget of information and a line I was desperate to write (“If Joe Kinnear thought he had a mountain to climb when he was manager of Nepal …”) came out on a rare quiet day. So, big Joe Kinnear. Tell us about Nepal.

“I was in Nepal for two years as their national coach. I was there with Crown Prince Dipendra who was to be their future prince (he meant king). It was a real experience for me. I was just starting out as a coach, I was in Dubai also for two years. Nepal was to coach the national team, the contract was good, financially it was good. He was the King’s son, he had to marry some other bird. I had better be careful here or I will be having a political war.

“He (the Crown Prince) was one of my closest friends, he was head of their FA. I was there when the whole of the royal family was killed. He was my best friend, so he used to come back to London, we would meet and go to matches. When I went back over there, he was the guy I answered to.

“There were two castes out there. He was forced to marry another girl but he didn’t want to. He was ordered by his parents to marry her when that was the last thing he really wanted to do. He wanted to marry someone else but he couldn’t … like the usual crap. So what did he do? He killed them all and then blew his own brains out.”

What!? Really!? “I never really felt like my life was at risk,” he said. “It came out of the blue when it happened. I got out of there about three days after and I have never been back.”

Dynamite! Utterly irrelevant to anything, but who cares, it was a great story and it least it wasn’t D-Day meetings or contracts or players being lined up or being called a c*** or so f****** slimy. Until, as it was my turn to transcribe the press conference quotes that day and Tibet had been my idea, I thought I’d do a bit of research.

Joe Kinnear managed Nepal in 1987.
Dipendra of Nepal allegedly killed his family on June 1 2001.
In 2001, Joe Kinnear was manager of Luton Town.

[Bender]

Newcastle Utd is an Episode of comedy Gold

[baitman]

joe has lost the plot. has he escaped from some sort of secure unit

[Lee]

Just heard Kinnear's interview.

This really is shaping up to be the best close-season of all time.

[Alex]

Have Newcastle announced anything yet? Anyone think old Joe has gone a bit mental and is doing this for a laugh?