Newcastle United’s down to earth manager Joe Kinnear has today been fined £500 by the English Football Association for calling referee Martin Atkinson “a Mickey Mouse referee” in our game at Craven Cottage, earlier in the season.
Joe Kinnear – fined £500 – obviously very upset
For a manager who will soon be making a few million a year as the long-term manager at Newcastle, that’s hardly even a slap on the wrist, but there again it was hardly a cause for imprisonment, after all.
At least he will not be banned, but he also has a charge for improper conduct, along with Hull manager Phil Brown still to come, for their little argument on the sidelines a few weeks back.
Reports the Walt Disney Company are bringing libel charges against Joe for comparing Mickey Mouse with Martin Atkinson are unfounded.
34 comments so far
safferman
Jan 27, 2009 at 5:45 PM
Comment #1I hope he has the cash to pay it, cause he’s not getting any from Ashley…
BT9MAG
Jan 27, 2009 at 5:46 PM
Comment #2Harsh…Couldn’t they have just banned him from watching TV for a week, taken away his PSP or sent him to bed without a cornetto after his tea?
beyethegreat
Jan 27, 2009 at 5:47 PM
Comment #3he needs to calm down
Girth
Jan 27, 2009 at 5:51 PM
Comment #4Ive just thought, after seeing what is in the Chronicle about the Q&A with the top brass, answer me this:
there are constant moans about the lack of communication – and rightly so – from Newcastle Utd, but which other club communicates to the fans as much as people are wanting NUFC to?
just a thought….
BenjiToon
Jan 27, 2009 at 5:51 PM
Comment #5Am I first! …oh hang on a minute, just remembered I’m not 5, and I don’t actually care.
£500? What can the FA do with that? Just about pay the cost of all the paper wasted on charges like this I guess. I mean really, it was just expressing an opinion. If Kinnear had called the refs a couple of f***ing t**t faced ar**holes with s**t for brains, then I might have understood.
Oh well…another day, another story from the Toon that has nothing whatsoever to do with football.
shearer4pm
Jan 27, 2009 at 5:51 PM
Comment #6and what does atkinson get for empersonating a disney character??
BenjiToon
Jan 27, 2009 at 5:52 PM
Comment #7Shearer4pm – he gets a night in with Mini.
shearer4pm
Jan 27, 2009 at 5:53 PM
Comment #8with pluto gettin sloppy seconds 🙂 hahhaa
beyethegreat
Jan 27, 2009 at 5:53 PM
Comment #9girth
atleast they dont take half a year to announce a siging after he has signed
and no other club is in as much crisis as us
all the other fans know what is happening at their club
Joseph
Jan 27, 2009 at 5:54 PM
Comment #10would 500 even pay the wages for the staff doing this trial
Mags
Jan 27, 2009 at 5:55 PM
Comment #11Shearer4pm I canna type for laughing!!
nimo
Jan 27, 2009 at 5:56 PM
Comment #12can i just ask if any1 knows where ed is getting this 1.2million a goal from?
BenjiToon
Jan 27, 2009 at 5:57 PM
Comment #13Shearer4pm – cracking!
BlacknWhite Barmy
Jan 27, 2009 at 5:57 PM
Comment #14Wheres the signings?????????????///
Prince Bassong
Jan 27, 2009 at 5:58 PM
Comment #15A speeding fine is about 10-15% of that (as well as points) and that’s an offence that can end up seriously inuring, or even killing, innocent people.
And as had been said, what’s £500 to either JK or the FA?
What exactly is the point in this ‘punishment’?
shearer4pm
Jan 27, 2009 at 5:58 PM
Comment #16hahaha jus £500 u gota laff what is the point, what are they gona do with that, go towards there trip to disney land florida at the end of the season,
family reunion 🙂
John Tudor
Jan 27, 2009 at 5:58 PM
Comment #17wheres the pen and paper
sirjasontoon
Jan 27, 2009 at 6:07 PM
Comment #18Ouch..I bet that will keep him off the cheap cider for a month.
Needs to keep his mouth shut as all that comes out is steaming turd…pffffffffffffffffffft.
Big Dave
Jan 27, 2009 at 6:08 PM
Comment #19Well lads just got home from work and turned the pc on straight away to see what is happening with Shay and still nowt 30 hrs later so much for the 24 hrs i am totaly peed off with the sh*te we will now within 48hrs about the 2 loan signings that was over 2 weeks and still FA. and now this 24hr crap
neeraj
Jan 27, 2009 at 6:08 PM
Comment #20500 pounds
mommy and daddy are going to give me week’s lockout………
nimo
Jan 27, 2009 at 6:10 PM
Comment #21its only so little cos the fa n=knew he was telling the truth
Matt Lacey
Jan 27, 2009 at 6:11 PM
Comment #22nimo (no 12) – £16m transfer fee + 3 1/2 years of 100k/week wages (£18.2m) and 30 goals in return. Take away the £6.7m we got in compensation and you get more like £900k, but still…
Bit of a harsh attitude to take when it’s a player who can’t really have helped his injuries and the shoddy team around him…
nimo
Jan 27, 2009 at 6:14 PM
Comment #23i agree matt and the fact it was his goals last season that kept us up that sved us the 15million cost of relegation
nimo
Jan 27, 2009 at 6:15 PM
Comment #24and his wages were covered for the time when he was injured with england
Troy Stavers
Jan 27, 2009 at 6:16 PM
Comment #25Ooooh thats gonna stop Kinnear calling the refs isn’t it. It shows what the FA think of refs!!
RyanToon
Jan 27, 2009 at 6:21 PM
Comment #26yep good old fa fine kinnear but not redknapp, sounds about right
Darling27
Jan 27, 2009 at 6:25 PM
Comment #27Fair play to him. If i was on his wages i’d have called him mickey mouse. The refs are a disgrace this season.
Troy Stavers
Jan 27, 2009 at 6:33 PM
Comment #28Oi Oi fellow charva’s, am off me nut here!! I’ve dropped 6 E’s and am gannin oot ravin!! ooooh yes!!
Shay Harper is d’man!! He is a great keeper!! He’s as good as two keepers man!! There’s only one Shay Harper!! One Shay Harper!! Theres only one Shay Harper!!
Stardust
Jan 27, 2009 at 6:41 PM
Comment #29Stavers – Children read this site – please drop your reference to drugs and it being clever.
Its not funny and not clever
Simo
Jan 27, 2009 at 6:47 PM
Comment #30well hes not getting any from Mike Ashley!!
Troy Stavers
Jan 27, 2009 at 6:50 PM
Comment #31woo hoo hooo hoo ! Stardust is criticising others views and opinions, yet he is on here, on a daily business, spewing his vile views about supporting FMA and criticising the mob!! Children can be influenced by you and it’s not reet!!
Troy Stavers
Jan 27, 2009 at 6:57 PM
Comment #32Startrek, Starburst, Starbucks woteva yor caalled!! You think you’ve got more dosh than Ashley, well why divvent you buy the club oot eh!! I can picture yi noo, sittin amongst the toon fans wi ya white 3 piece suit, white shoes, and stetson on!! Ye’ve got nee idea man aboot being a charva like!
Toon_Ksk (ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!)
Jan 27, 2009 at 7:33 PM
Comment #33/facepalm
lesh
Jan 28, 2009 at 8:56 AM
Comment #34re shearer4pm // Jan 27, 2009 at 5:53 PM
with pluto gettin sloppy seconds hahhaa etc……
[in a a scots accent on it?]…… Och, nah he disney!!