Toon Revenge Puts Warnock On Other Side Of The Fence
Last updated : 08 April 2007 By Footy Mad - Editor
It was hard on manager Glenn Roeder. Especially as his side had just returned from a fabulous victory against second placed Palarmo in Scicily, and the Newcastle board - in all their wisdom - waved the chance to play the Blades on the Sunday, to take the SKY TV money for a pay-to-view Saturday fixture.
But this time the Geordie boys were prepared for what could be seen as the toughest fixture in Roeder's short Newcastle career. A defeat at Bramall Lane would have put the Magpies in serious trouble. But Roeder said his players would stand up and be counted, and they certainly did that.
Warnock admitted he could taste the 'bitterness' of defeat ... so he must now know how Roeder felt when the Yorkshire boys won on Tyneside.
Warnock: "I'm sick as the old proverbial. At the moment you can't put the bitterness away - you can almost taste because you know how important these home games are.
"Heads are down in the dressing room - wouldn't expect anything else.
"You can't ask any more as a manager when your players give everything but it's disappointing that Newcastle haven't really had to work for their goals.
"You don't need me to tell you that their second goal is a straightforward corner kick. It took us all that time to claw our way back in and to concede again just a simple goal it is disappointing.
"When we equalised I could see us winning it. At 1-1 I thought they were for the beating and to concede an elementary goal is really a kick in the teeth.
"I think we have had five or six great chances. It just shows what a fine line it is at the top level. If you don't take your opportunities you get punished."
