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divimg alt=”" src=”http://hits.guardian.co.uk/b/ss/guardiangu-feeds/1/H.15.1/96679?ns=guardianpageName=Football%3A+Kinnear+warms+to+Shearer+returnch=Footballc3=The+Guardianc4=Premier+League+%28Football%29%2CNewcastle+United+%28Football%29%2CFootballc5=Premier+Leaguec6=Sachin+Nakranic7=2008_11_22c8=1122127c9=articlec10=GUc11=Footballc12=Premier+Leaguec13=c14=h2=GU%2FFootball%2FPremier+League” width=”1″ height=”1″ //divpJoe Kinnear has added momentum to speculation surrounding Alan Shearer’s return to a href=”http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/newcastleunited”Newcastle United/a by saying the striker would be “more than welcome” to join the club’s existing coaching team./ppShearer continues to be linked with the manager’s post at Newcastle and the likelihood of him stepping into the dugout at St James’ Park increased this week after his former team-mate and close friend Rob Lee said the Match of the Day pundit would take the job “tomorrow” if it was offered to him with the right terms./ppThat would mean replacing Kinnear, who continues to manage Newcastle on an interim basis and has made it clear he wants the job on a long-term basis. In an obvious attempt to appease supporters, he told the BBC’s Football Focus in an interview scheduled to be broadcast this afternoon that he would be willing to work with Shearer should the local hero decide to return to the club where he scored 206 goals in 404 appearances./pp”I have the utmost respect for Shearer,” said Kinnear. “The door is always open and he is more than welcome to learn his trade here. I would be delighted if he wanted to come here two days a week and see for himself what football is all about./pp”From Alan’s point of view he will be looking more for the future than right now because right now is a difficult time to come in, also in terms of injuries. Maybe he is biding his time.”/ppA change of manager at Newcastle, who visit Chelsea today, remains unlikely while the ownership of the club remains in the balance. The incumbent owner, Mike Ashley, is still looking to sell but despite gathering interest from a US consortium a deal remains some distance off./ppIn such circumstances it is perhaps not surprising that Kinnear is planning for the long-term and yesterday he revealed that he has pinpointed two targets for the January transfer window. One, he said, is currently out of favour at Roma while the other has already scored against Newcastle this season./pp”I know their agents and what they would be is loan deals from January until the end of the season,” the 61-year-old said. “I already know the player in Rome would cost us pound;2m to bring over here.”/pdiv style=”float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;”ullia href=”http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/premierleague”Premier League/a/lilia href=”http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/newcastleunited”Newcastle United/a/li/ul/divdiv class=”guRssAdvert”a href=”http://ads.guardian.co.uk/click.ng/richmedia=yessite=Footballcountry=nldspacedesc=rsssystem=rsstransactionID=1227315071251112201002056189″img src=”http://ads.guardian.co.uk/image.ng/richmedia=yessite=Footballcountry=nldspacedesc=rsssystem=rsstransactionID=1227315071251112201002056189″ border=”0″ //a/diva href=”http://www.guardian.co.uk”guardian.co.uk/a copy; Guardian News Media Limited 2008 | Use of this content is subject to our a href=”http://users.guardian.co.uk/help/article/0,,933909,00.html”Terms Conditions/a | a href=”http://www.guardian.co.uk/webfeeds/1,,1309488,00.html”More Feeds/a

Original post by Sachin Nakrani

Joe Kinnear has accepted postponing his meeting with Mike Ashley regarding the sale of Newcastle

Original post by Simon Williams

divimg alt=”" src=”http://hits.guardian.co.uk/b/ss/guardiangu-feeds/1/H.15.1/87926?ns=guardianpageName=Football%3A+Campbell+pushes+his+way+into+Pearce%27s+planningch=Footballc3=The+Guardianc4=England+football+team%2CCzech+Republic+football+team%2CFootball%2CSportc5=Football+World+Cup%2CNot+commercially+usefulc6=Stuart+Jamesc7=2008_11_19c8=1120079c9=articlec10=GUc11=Footballc12=Englandc13=c14=h2=GU%2FFootball%2FEngland” width=”1″ height=”1″ //divpThe preparations for next summer’s European Championships started last night, according to Stuart Pearce, and this was a performance that suggested everything is going to plan. Having used the occasion as an opportunity to experiment, the England Under-21 manager had good reason to be satisfied with the result as an under-strength line-up overcame a combative Czech Republic side through goals from the in-form Fraizer Campbell and Aston Villa’s Craig Gardner./ppHow many of these players appear in Sweden in June remains to be seen but Pearce was able to take encouragement from the fact that he has such competition for places. No one was more impressive than Campbell, with the 21-year-old striker, who has scored three times in his last two games on loan at Tottenham Hotspur, registering his first international goal and generally making life as uncomfortable as possible for the Czech Republic./pp”I thought he played well,” said Pearce. “He’s quick, darts in behind and is a constant threat. If he carries on the way he is, Manchester United and Tottenham will have a player on their hands.” Pearce also singled out the contribution of the Wolverhampton Wanderers central defender Richard Stearman, the sole debutant in the England starting line-up on a night when an inexperienced side extended the manager’s run to one defeat in 22 matches./pp”It took us an hour to knock them off,” added Pearce, whose goalkeeper, Peterborough’s Joe Lewis, was taken off on a stretcher in the first half with his ankle heavily strapped. “We probably needed to show a touch more devilment and grab the game by the scruff of the neck early on. But we wanted to get a win, keep a clean sheet and for three or four players to come in and do well and I think I got that out of this performance.”/ppCampbell capitalised on Jan Halama’s weak header before lobbing Jakub Divis, Gardner’s 25-yard free-kick doubled England’s lead and a third should have followed two minutes later but Jamie O’Hara telegraphed his intentions with a weak penalty after Jakub Heidenreich bundled over Campbell. There should have been another England spot-kick within seconds after the same two players clashed but Campbell was harshly booked for diving./pdiv style=”float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;”ullia href=”http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/england”England/a/lilia href=”http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/czechrepublic”Czech Republic/a/li/ul/divdiv class=”guRssAdvert”a href=”http://ads.guardian.co.uk/click.ng/richmedia=yessite=Footballcountry=nldspacedesc=rsssystem=rsstransactionID=1227057980222111901285839760″img src=”http://ads.guardian.co.uk/image.ng/richmedia=yessite=Footballcountry=nldspacedesc=rsssystem=rsstransactionID=1227057980222111901285839760″ border=”0″ //a/diva href=”http://www.guardian.co.uk”guardian.co.uk/a copy; Guardian News Media Limited 2008 | Use of this content is subject to our a href=”http://users.guardian.co.uk/help/article/0,,933909,00.html”Terms Conditions/a | a href=”http://www.guardian.co.uk/webfeeds/1,,1309488,00.html”More Feeds/a

Original post by Stuart James

divimg alt=”" src=”http://hits.guardian.co.uk/b/ss/guardiangu-feeds/1/H.15.1/23320?ns=guardianpageName=Sport%3A+Kinnear+not+alone+in+buying+into+Disney+timech=Sportc3=The+Guardianc4=Premier+League+%28Football%29%2CFootballc5=Premier+Leaguec6=David+Laceyc7=2008_11_15c8=1118259c9=articlec10=GUc11=Sportc12=blogc13=c14=Sportblogh2=GU%2FSport%2Fblog%2FSportblog” width=”1″ height=”1″ //divpRespect means different things to different people. Even the dictionary cannot make up its mind, defining the word as an “attitude of deference, admiration or esteem”./pp”Dis shows respect” gasps the hoarse mafia boss in Hollywood films while he considers ways to have the person paying his respects bumped off./ppIn introducing its Respect programme this season the Football Association has tried to encourage referees and team captains to work together to improve the running of the game, and by and large the players have responded well. For the managers, however, it would appear that little has changed. “The referees deserve respect,” said Derby’s Paul Jewell this week, “but we can’t start respecting them if they get major decisions wrong that affect livelihoods.”/ppCardiff’s manager, Dave Jones, had two players sent off against Queens Park Rangers and declared talk about respect “a load of baloney”. The League Managers Association met on Monday to discuss the present state of refereeing and rather made its point beforehand by not inviting anyone from the referees’ body, the Professional Game Match Officials Limited. Richard Bevan, the LMA’s chief executive, called for an overall improvement in refereeing standards. “Our members have an unrivalled depth of knowledge, experience and expertise,” he claimed./ppIn football maybe, but not refereeing. Bill Shankly said of referees that “they know the laws but they don’t know the game”. Refs might retort that in the case of players and managers, the opposite applies. In fact when it comes to a rational debate on refereeing, managers continually fail to impress./ppConsider the reaction of Joe Kinnear, caretaker of Newcastle United, after Sunday’s 2-1 defeat at Fulham, whose winner came from a penalty that nobody disputed. Kinnear, however, felt Newcastle should have had a free-kick for a push the moment before Fulham were given the penalty for a trip. The television replay suggested that nothing much had happened to support his assertion yet Kinnear described the referee, Martin Atkinson, as “just a Mickey Mouse ref doing nothing”./ppKinnear has now apologised although since his recent expletive-laden rant at Newcastle reporters recalled the spluttering rages of Donald Duck, he can claim a degree of expertise when it comes to Disney matters. Otherwise he was just another losing manager, conveniently overlooking the fact that Newcastle’s goal should have been disallowed for offside./ppFootball people tend to be one-eyed and to a certain they have to be in the interests of the team. At least Steven Gerrard had the good grace to cast doubts on the laughable penalty which spared Liverpool a Champions League defeat by Atleacute;tico Madrid last week, admitting that “if it happened at the other end we would be livid”./ppUnsurprisingly Rafael Beniacute;tez, the Liverpool manager, felt the decision was correct. While he was at Manchester United Paul Ince memorably got himself dismissed for haranguing the referee when they lost a Champions League game at Gothenburg and management does not seem to have softened his attitude towards officials./pp”Talk about the Respect campaign,” he snarled after Blackburn’s Benni McCarthy had been sent off at West Bromwich following a second booking for handball. “We’re trying to respect them [the referees] but they’ve got to start respecting us. It works both ways.” /ppWrong: officials are not there to please managers. Most managers are rational, reasonable people most of the time, but after games have ended their emotions are still caught up with what has gone before. Some TV contracts oblige managers to make themselves available for interviews shortly after the final whistle but it is still a pity that more cannot follow the example of George Graham, who when he was in charge at Arsenal used to give himself a good half-hour to compose his thoughts first./ppAt least Roy Keane, the Sunderland manager, has changed tack by having a go at TV pundits, saying that viewers are being brainwashed “by what’s real and what’s not real”, with extra pressure put on managers by exaggerating situations./ppAll television does, surely, is respond to events, although someone should have picked up on the abstruse reaction of Mike Phelan, Alex Ferguson’s assistant at United, after last Saturday’s enthralling match at Arsenal. “You don’t want a game of football that goes from one goalmouth to the other,” Phelan said. “The spectators might love it but from a coach’s point of view it’s too open.” He should be made to do penance outside Old Trafford before the bust of Matt Busby. Now that would show respect./pdiv style=”float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;”ullia href=”http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/premierleague”Premier League/a/li/ul/diva href=”http://www.guardian.co.uk”guardian.co.uk/a copy; Guardian News Media Limited 2008 | Use of this content is subject to our a href=”http://users.guardian.co.uk/help/article/0,,933909,00.html”Terms Conditions/a | a href=”http://www.guardian.co.uk/webfeeds/1,,1309488,00.html”More Feeds/a

Original post by David Lacey

Joe Kinnear has said that Newcastle require four new players to maintain their improvement

Original post by Simon Williams

Perhaps a collection of mild-mannered managers could give Joe Kinnear lessons in charming the press

Original post by Louise Taylor

Joe Kinnear launched an extraordinary tirade against North East reporters during a press conference

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Joe Kinnear insisted he can lead Newcastle to calmer waters after they lost to Blackburn

Original post by Louise Taylor

Stoke were rebuffed in their attempts to acquire Cardiff’s Joe Ledley despite bidding £6m, but made two other signings

Original post by Stuart James