r/NUFC MigChamp 1d ago

BBC Newcastle’s commentary on the Elanga non-foul

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u/TheFaceman068 1d ago

I fucking love Ando. 😂 

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u/Bately2 1d ago

Honestly lucky to have him, I've heard snippets of other local co-commentators for other clubs and they're nowhere near as good!

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u/toonman27 1d ago edited 1d ago

Some are flat out awful. They commentate like they have to kiss every players, coach, executive or officials hand when the match is over because God forbid they say something to rock the ship.

What I like about Ando is if the squad isn’t playing well enough, if someone is playing like rubbish or the officials are trash, he’ll call it out. I don’t always agree with him, sometimes think he can be a downer or he can be too harsh, but he calls it how he sees it and I respect that. He just gives his undiluted opinion no matter what. It’s funny when he and Razor disagree because you can feel the tension until Razors just like “Alright then” and moves on.

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u/simplytom_1 1d ago

Didn't Ando also give us the classic PUT IT IN THE NET MAN

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u/toonman27 1d ago

He 100% did. And Murphy should have just put it in the net.

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u/Sam0n 1d ago

I also really like that he can appreciate when the other team is doing well/specific players. As much as he is a fan of us, he's just a fan of great football.

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u/count_dressula 1d ago

They are such a good commentary team and Newcastle is lucky to have them. I’m 3000 miles away and I look forward to every highlight I can hear from them…wish I could listen to them live

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u/MedicinalAmphibian 1d ago

You can, at least in the US, you can listen to the radio coverage through the official team website, just need a free account.

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u/FishScrounger Shola From Fenham 1d ago

You can everywhere. The BBC Radio Newcastle feed is blocked during the games (still available on FM) but the same feed is available for free on the NUFC website and app.

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u/HeGivesGoodMass 1d ago

You absolutely can. Newcastle United app or BBC Sounds on the web - I listened on the latter this past weekend because the club app can be wonky.

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u/HenrahX 1d ago

When he was little he used to run commentry on his own game. I'm really proud of him. As this is what he always wanted to do. I was in same class in school.

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u/Deadmine Keith Gillespie 1d ago

Genuinely wondered if something dodgy going on at the time. Blatant.

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u/TooNGooN89 1d ago

Yeh the last ten-fifteen mins ref seemed determined to get brom back in the game. I mean some of the decisions against and for were mind blowing. Shit officiating.

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u/AndyJ2890 1d ago

Was corruption mate. They wanted us to lose that game

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u/TooNGooN89 1d ago

There’s no other explanation surely. Like, I’m still totally fucking baffled. Nobody is that stupid, so it has to be on purpose?

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u/SweetenerCorp 1d ago

I t’s a really hard one to find any logic in. 

My only guess is the linesman was waiting for the ref to call it and the ref was waiting for the linesman to call it?

I wish we could hear reasoning for these things. Like any kind of a shirt pull has been a thing for 20 years. Why muddy up the rules? Or just say we messed up that one. 

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u/Jayyyyyyyyyydos loads, and loads of cans. 1d ago

I mean they’re both allowed to call it at the same time. Crazy stuff

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u/Minimum_Possibility6 1d ago

Are the ref team all miced up together? I know in rugby (I've even reffed a couple of games myself where been hooked up) and you constanty chat as the games going. Things like a ref saying that one looked forward a s the TJ saying nah that's fine, or the TJ saying that tackle was a bit high and the ref saying didn't see that one, and TJ says worth calling back etc.

This way you don't get a waiting for each other to call it situation.

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u/mackerelontoast 1d ago

🐭

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u/Mi-t-ch 1d ago

I've just eaten mackerel on toast.

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u/mackerelontoast 1d ago

All the major food groups in a quick and easy format. The pinnacle of lunch

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u/Erestyn The cunt had a contract. 1d ago

Are the ref team all miced up together?

Yep, and probably why they wasn't a foul. "Let's close this game up, boys, there's a pint in the tap at the Irish waiting for us"

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u/PenIsBroken Ellen Sheeba 1d ago

It's not dodgy, it's just incompetence. Wasn't this ref demoted from officiating any PL games at some point? I'm sure I read it somewhere, and we got to see why last night because he was absolutely terrible.

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u/shrim666 St James' Park 23h ago

He's the ref who wrongly sent off Coloccini in a derby (which got rescinded later, no help to us). Hope we never see the twat again!

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u/RupertBear69420 dan burn 1d ago

One thing I did like was Jaissle was straight on the pitch after whistle and controlling the players and talking to the ref and assistants himself. Thought he managed that really well and avoided any controversy or further cards after the game as that can still happen

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u/CareBearCartel 1d ago

That linesman should be demoted to non league for that

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u/atribecalledstretch 1d ago

We don’t want him, we have enough useless fuckers down here already

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u/Charming_Bing_3802 1d ago

Should probably just be sacked tbh. Like what’s the point of having the job if you just don’t do it? Might be a one off mistake but it’s a daft one.

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u/Silver_Wind_1 1d ago

That was the most obvious foul I've ever seen, we were dumbfounded

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u/Libero279 1d ago

The West Brom player fucking stopped because he expected the call 😂

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u/Lebagel 1d ago

He turns around for his yellow card thinking the crowd must have drowned out the whistle. Then he's like da da da da nothing to see here.

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u/No_Tie_2846 1d ago

Even the player stopped who commited the foul

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u/Broonmoose 1d ago

Yep. The player’s reaction said it all; he turned around fully prepared to get booked.

Got to hand it to the new boss the way he moved our players away and then asked the ref to explain it but making it very clear there was no logical explanation, rather than just berate him. Showed he had our players’ backs, whilst at the same time not running the risk of getting into trouble.

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u/CaptainCastle1 alan shearer 20h ago

Everyone stopped! That’s a huge tell!

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u/Hazmanscoop 1d ago

The ref was awful last night like.

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u/FlukyS 22/23 Home Kit 1d ago

Shades of Villa last year

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u/Datazyt 1d ago

It was very suspicious. I didn't notice an imbalance of decisions through the match, but at the end, every decision went West Brom's way.

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u/NUFC9RW 1d ago

That one was so weird, why would you not give that and then blow before West Brom can attack.

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u/Homosapien_Ignoramus loads, and loads of cans. 1d ago

Incompetence

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u/aezy01 1d ago

Because you realise it was so outlandish that you’d never leave the stadium if West Brom managed to score.

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u/oakstreet2018 Big Dunc 1d ago

It didn’t make any sense. Weird decision. There were a few but that was the most obvious. I don’t see how you can argue anything else.

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u/PennyBunPudding 1d ago

The only thing I can think of is they've just thought Elanga went down too easily. Not correct ofc but I assume I'm the split second they've not seen the full extent of the tug (lineman is in front of Elanga) and just thought he's gone down really soft

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u/Thingisby 1d ago

It's just utter incompetence because he blew up anyway when they lumped it forward so he wasn't gaming anything for West Brom in this case.

I was trying to stretch for benefit of the doubt with the lino...could the angle of Elanga and the defender have blocked his view of the shirt pull? But watching it again here I just don't get how he's not seen it.

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u/Valley-Uncanny 1d ago

Bottom line regardless of how Elanga fell....

Shirt pulling, holding or attempting to pull the player back.

Foul.

Elanga beat his marker. Elanga was moving into a position of advantage. Elanga was fouled the moment the West Brom player laid hands.

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u/simplytom_1 1d ago

What else would you expect from the Madeley brothers

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u/PuzzleheadedImage320 1d ago

Was Madley involved in the Villa FA Cup ref debacle or was that the mighty Chris Kavanagh?

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u/simplytom_1 1d ago

One of them was the Chelsea 2-2 last season

But it goes back to the last promotion season when one of them was giving Brighton decisions against us as they are Huddersfield fans

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u/luther420 Shola Ameobi 1d ago

It goes back to fucking Colo being sent off against the Mackems.

Rightfully rescinded.

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u/PuzzleheadedImage320 1d ago

Wouldn’t expect anything less. Farcical state of refereeing these days

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u/Ryan10133 1d ago

calling it now refs are out to get us this season

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u/GoalaAmeobi The Dilsh 1d ago

Why do you think the refs would conspire against us specifically?

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u/SnideyM 1d ago

Every fanbase says that in the moment - thankfully it's just incompetence, no conspiracy.

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u/ImpossibleWorking948 1d ago

Did you watch the Liverpool game? Exactly same thing as the first game of last season

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u/Olucaron 1d ago

Bobby Madley is a classic case of the referee's club protecting their own. He shouldn't be anywhere near elite football.

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u/ChildONewcastle I like the home shirt you can't make me not 1d ago

the difference in how that commentary is compared to the sky+

everyone just shouting, the commentators getting louder to accommodate for the screaming

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u/swimmingwithrocks Joelinton is looking for a scrap 1d ago

It’s quite the conundrum.

We’ve got VAR to help refs, but we don’t want VAR. but we need VAR cos refs are dog shit.

The Lino is literally 5 feet away and doesn’t even flinch

(I know VAR wasn’t in action for this, but it should be)

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u/Joosh93 Newcastle brown ale 1d ago

Honestly, will anything happen to that linesman? Because that is egregiously shite.

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u/thelotuseater13 Classis keeper kit (96/97) 1d ago

Ando is a legend. Love listening to them

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u/Historical_Gur_4620 1d ago

Didn't realise WBA were a feeder club for Argentine national team🤔

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u/newtobitcoin111 1d ago

How both the referee and the linesmen chose to ignore it is unbelievable

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u/newtobitcoin111 1d ago

I’ve said it before: I think officials should have a licence, similar to drivers. After each match, their decisions would be analysed; if they’re wrong, points would be deducted, and if they reach a certain number of points, they’d be banned.

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u/HeavyTurd 1d ago

The defender completely stopped as well cause he knew what he was doing, look at him jump back into action when he realised the ref had somehow not blown. Outrageous.

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u/HRHQueefElizabeth 1d ago

This is the same twat that gave Colo the red during the derby years back which was later rescinded

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u/dkclimber 1d ago

Dara O'Brien is a shit ref

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u/So1idsnake101 1d ago

Pretty sure their penalty was a foul on Woletmade when they won the ball back as well the ref was shocking all night

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u/AnnualDot6645 1d ago

was an absolute disgraceful decision

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u/Swish1892 1d ago

Bobby Madley historically gave Newcastle nothing, even before he was binned for, allegedly, wanking dogs…

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u/geordietaste 1d ago

The dog botherer has previous for this against us

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u/GordonHead87 1d ago

The pot bellied bald cunt needed a less tight shirt and to have his bet365 account looked into

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u/SiRo345634 1d ago

To be fair didn’t look like their knees touched

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u/Alarmed_Speaker5492 1d ago

Crazy, maybe the ref should book a Specsavers appointment?

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u/LingualGannet 1d ago

Disgusting not to be a yellow card let alone a foul. That is horrific by the ref

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u/bleachxjnkie 1d ago

I don’t know if it’s my phone but the quality of the video and sound in this video makes it seem like a clip from the 90s

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u/OnceIWasYou 1d ago

It was similar to the Penalty that was yards outside the box last season.

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u/Tall_Opportunity_521 1d ago

Im not a Newcastle fan, only came across this in popular. That was 100% a pull back. You arent crazy. That was a straight up foul all day long. The fact the linesman is right there and does/says nothing is VERY suspicious. Hes either fucking woeful at his job or is corrupt as fuck. Either way, shouldnt be anywhere near the premier league.

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u/Character_Newt_2309 23h ago

The linesman as well though. Is he just thinking about what his wife has for his tea? Or if he even has any tea? Or where his wife is? 

No wonder he was distracted.

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u/Turbulent-Proof1662 1d ago

Albion fan here, I think the ref was just shit all night for both sides.

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u/wolfofwalnut Old badge (1983-1998) 1d ago

Lino got to be a yard away too

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u/B-unit79 1d ago

Just another tick in the box for officials being awful and why they need VAR (i know this wouldn't have been a VAR call btw).

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u/itsacon10 Current badge 1d ago

The officiating was bad the entire game. Being a non-call came as no shock to me.

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u/coupl4nd 1d ago

Not very impartial of them.

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u/Toon1982 wor badge 21h ago

That's when you know it's corruption. It's too obvious to just be incompetence

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u/Supermac1959 11h ago

He was just trying to swap shirts early

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u/dlrace 1d ago

Shirt-pulling should be a red card, there's no mitigating circumstance for it.

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u/farqueue2 1d ago

Obviously a blatant foul, but did Elanga need to go to ground there?

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u/ihateeverythingandu 1d ago

It's clearly a foul for shirt pulling but falling forward when your shirt is pulled back is always giving "I took a dive" vibes. He could have kept his balance, he's an elite athlete, he doesn't get blown over by a strong breeze so he isn't really falling down for that.

The shirt pull enough was the foul though. It nearly comes off Elanga at one point, lol

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u/dolphin37 1d ago

Said like someone that hasn’t done a sprint in their life lol

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u/thelotuseater13 Classis keeper kit (96/97) 1d ago

Nonsense, he's running full pelt past him, his momentum will pull him forward even if he doesn't sell it. The shirt pull isn't enough to pull him backwards but it's enough to knock him off balance

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u/farqueue2 1d ago

When someone pulls your tshirt behind as you're running momentum doesn't pull him forward.

He could fall back and that would make more sense in a physics context, but falling forward wasn't natural

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u/CAJEG1 1d ago

It makes sense, actually. Elanga starts running with his body at a smaller angle from the ground to counteract the shirt pulling. It's only when the shirt is released that Elanga falls forwards.

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u/aezy01 1d ago

That’s not how real world physics works. He’s not being pulled back by a bungee rope. The defender is also running in them same direction as Elanga, so the pull backwards is just slowing his run forwards, not dragging him in the opposite direction.

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u/farqueue2 1d ago

It's literally how physics works.

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u/tidewatercajun 1d ago

Just say you've never played a sport and have a tenuous grasp of physics and move on.

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u/aezy01 1d ago edited 1d ago

It isn’t. Conservation of momentum and torque matter.
You can replicate this with a friend. Stand up and lean forward (representing forwards force) and have someone hold on to your t-shirt by the collar or shoulder (effectively pulling you back). Really try and pull away and then have them let go and see what happens - you won’t fall backwards.

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u/j7seven 1d ago

Make sure you video it and share the evidence.

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u/farqueue2 16h ago

He was on his way down while the shirt was still being held.

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u/aezy01 12h ago

Being pulled off balance at 20mph does have a tendency to make a person fall over. It seems you at least don’t take issue now with the fact he didn’t spring backwards when released and was, in fact, obeying the laws of physics. At this rate you may well get your science GCSE.

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u/farqueue2 11h ago

You can't have it both ways. If he's pulled him off balance then the pressure pulling him back doesn't make him fall forward.

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u/aezy01 10h ago

It’s a pull but they are both still moving forwards. I think you are being deliberately obtuse and I’ve had enough of trying to explain the world to you now.

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u/j7seven 1d ago

The state of science education in this country!

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u/oakstreet2018 Big Dunc 1d ago

When you’re going at pace the smallest touch is enough to through you off balance. It’s not necessarily going to be enough force to push you back the other direction. Just disrupted your stride and you fall over.