Williamson charged violent conduct.
Posted on November 22nd, 2010 | 125 Comments |
Mike Williamson has unsurprisingly been charged by the FA today for violent conduct. Mike was involved in an off the ball incident with Bolton’s Johan Elmander during the humiliating and diabolical 5-1 loss on Saturday.
The incident wasn’t spotted by referee Howard Webb during the match and The FA chose to review the situation afterwards. They certainly didn’t like what they saw and have charged the defender for violent conduct.
Here is what a spokesman from The FA had to say this evening;
“Newcastle United defender Mike Williamson has today been charged with violent conduct.”
“The charge relates to an incident involving Johan Elmander in his side’s fixture with Bolton Wanderers on Saturday, November 20.”
“Williamson has until 6pm on Tuesday, November 23rd to reply to the charge and under The FA’s fast-track regulations may admit the charge and accept a standard three-match suspension.”
On the whole I think Willo has been steady this season. With Coloccini suspended as well it could very well mean that we see a partnership of Sol Campbell and Steven Taylor at the heart of the United defence in the absence of Hugton’s seemingly first choice pairing.
With Chelsea up next, it will be interesting to see who Chris will pick. We need to bounce back from Saturday’s horror show and we cant afford to gift Chelsea in the same ways we did Bolton. The current league leaders have certainly been out of sorts in recent weeks. Lets just hope they don’t rediscover good form on Sunday.
Newcastle will be welcoming back Cheick Tiote after serving his one match suspension. I think many will agree he has been a star this season and bar his mistake, which gifted Blackburn their first goal in a 2-1 loss, I don’t think the lads done too much wrong.
Anyway, back Williamson. The Talk sport website claims that the defender has penned a new 3-year deal with The Magpies. This has yet to be confirmed on the official NUFC website however, so we will resist doing an article about this until it’s confirmed by the club.
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Heres hoping Sol and Taylor are up for it…be interesting if they actually do have solid performances, over who will get picked Willo/colo are back. Heres hoping they don’t get injured or suspended themselves, because if they do we’re fecked…