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Respect Campaign In Crisis |
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| Both Fulham and Newcastle were in the bottom five at the time, but the managers had different philosophies. Joe Kinnear's teams battle for points without playing pretty football, whereas Cottagers' boss Roy Hodgson likes his team to play attractive football. Michael Owen started on the bench as he was still struggling to prove his fitness and sharpness, so Newcastle's strike-force consisted of Obafemi Martens and Shola Ameobi, but the first effort of note was a weak toe-poke by Jimmy Bullard that the Magpies' goalkeeper Shay Given easily saved after good work by Andy Johnson. Fulham dominated the first quarter of the match. Slightly before twenty minutes had passed Hungarian international Zoltan Gera went close after Bullard's corner gave him the opportunity to head in the opening goal, which was thwarted by José Enrique taking no chances at the expense of another corner.
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A Bad Weekend for the Respect Campaign |
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Respect Campaign In Crisis (Part Two)
The FA's Respect Campaign was in crisis, as mistakes were still being made by officials and players that youngsters look up to still tried to intimidate officials. These attitudes trickled down to grass roots football, but the stakes in the top leagues are high. Even in the Championship mistakes are costly. Cardiff City manager Dave Jones has already suffered a serious injustice in his life outside of football that puts the game in perspective, but the pressures that managers face are legion. He developed tactics to face Queen's Park Rangers on November 8th, but that counted for nothing as a series of mistakes by officials, led by referee Lee Probert, left a bitter taste for Jones, whose team got no reward for their hard work. Jones accused Probert of lacking respect for his players and he had a point. Cardiff could have had two penalties and could consider themselves harshly treated on the sending off Darren Purse and later that of Miguel Comminges as well.
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