Football Corner

After weeks and weeks of poor football it appears as though, finally Kevin Keegan's Newcastle may just be starting to turn a corner.

Keegan returned to St James' Park earlier this year and until last week hadn't picked up three points from any of his eight games back in charge. They beat Fulham 2-0 last week and yesterday, undoubtedly displayed their best performance under Keegan since his return with a 4-1 away victory against Tottenham.

Many people questioned Keegan's decision to return to Newcastle after 11 years away from the club and indeed many people questioned Mike Ashley's decision to bring him back. Keegan's future at the club was even brought into question a fortnight ago with many people predicting he wouldn't last til the end of the season.

Yesterday's win away to Tottenham was magnificent. Just what Newcastle needed. After winning at home to Fulham it would of been an awful shame for them to go to Spurs and get beat. People said before yesterday's game that the Magpies may yet go down but after the performance they put they displayed against the Carling Cup winners, there is absolutely no doubt in my mind that they will stay up.

Keegan has now even hinted at a top half finish which I personally feel may be just a bit too high for them to achieve after such a poor campaign to date. However I do feel with the right money pumped into the club, Geordies may yet see European football within 18 months.

Javier Mascherano is a Muppet. He receives an early booking, rightly so, for a tackle on Paul Scholes early on in the clash between Man United and
Liverpool and then proceeds to constantly question the ref's decisions.

I couldn't care less wheter or not the decisions may of been wrong, the fact is you can't do what he did yesterday. I counted about four times were Mascherano ran over to Steve Bennett and started questioning his decisions.

I understand Bennett can be a very fussy referee at times but yesterday I really admired him. He simply was fed up with Mascherano's antics and showed him his second yellow. Mascherano you Muppet!

According to reports in today's Daily Mail, Tottenham are leading a host of European clubs in the race to sign Sevilla striker Luis Fabiano.

The Brazilian international has been strongly linked with a move to Real Madrid and Roma over the past few months as well as Man United and Man City interested in the 27-year old.

Fabiano is widely regarded as one of the top strikers in Europe at the moment and he is currently sitting at the top of the scoring charts in La Liga at the moment to prove that point.

I personally feel Fabiano is a terrific striker that any team in Europe would love to have at their disposal. He is currently valued at around the £20 million mark and that for me represents value for money.

Spurs defender Takura Mtandari could be set for a move to either West Ham or Fulham in the near future according to reports in The Sun today.

The young defender was thought to be a hot prospect, a long term member of the White Hart Lane side but now it appears as though he wants to leave the club for either of Spurs' london rivals in that of West Ham or Fulham.