By Tyne-Talk
January 31 2012

Newcastle United manager Alan Pardew has confirmed that they have sent a letter of appeal to the FA after Yohan Cabaye was charged with violent conduct for "kicking out" during their FA Cup clash with Brighton at the weekend, despite referee Lee Probert failing to take action on the pitch. Pardew has confirmed that Brighton player El-Abd has written in support of Cabaye, despite being clear in a post match press statement that he felt Cabaye should have been red carded.

Pardew said;

"I am absolutely livid about it, if I am honest, because firstly, when the incident happened, I didn't see anything wrong with it.

After the game, someone said to me the TV coverage, especially the presenter, Ray Stubbs, was so ferocious about it, and I couldn't understand that. He had two professionals on that show telling him that the guy was trying to keep the player from tumbling on him.

I have reviewed that about seven or eight times and seriously, he is trying to stop the boy falling on him. He does make a gesture to push him away and in doing so, catches him just on the lip.

If you find that that was a malicious attempt to do that then, my goodness, you have never played this game. I cannot believe that the referee, after the game, has gone back. Now whether this is pressure that he's under, I don't know.

Yesterday, I had a call from the Brighton coaching team to suggest to me that their player wants to support our player, and I have never had that. We never instigated it, we never asked or put a phone call in to Brighton - in fact, I didn't see [Brighton manager] Gus [Poyet] after the game, and I must apologise to him for that, because I had to shoot off.

We have sent our letter in, a strong letter, and we have also, after the contact from Brighton, asked the Brighton player if he would forward a letter to us, which he has kindly done, and that will go in as well."

He added;

"If we had 18 cameras at every game, you would be sending two or three players off at every set-play because there's contract, trust me, more intended contact than there is with Cabaye's incident.

I really do think they need to just take a deep breath on this one, have a good luck at it. If you asked every Premier League manager about that incident, I would suggest 17 managers would say, 'No way'.

The three teams we are playing might say yes, it probably should have, but 17 wouldn't. That's my opinion of it."

The FA are yet to confirm the appeal. However, once confirmed it should mean that Cabaye is available for tomorrow's game against Blackburn Rovers whilst the hearing is pending.

El-Abd Supports Cabaye Appeal

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31/01/2012 17:58

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annie
31/01/2012 18:18

I just hope he doesn't get his ban extended.

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tunyc
31/01/2012 18:35

That would be very harsh, even for the FA, with the supposedly-fouled player writing in support.

I agree about the TV replay thing. In real time it looked like nothing of note. What now, super-slow-motion replays of every coming together to be reviewed after the game with an eye to retroactive enforcement? AP's right about that too.

Not that it's relevant to Cabaye, but that this gets more attention than van Persie's elbow is a clear indication of the FA's continuing bias towards certain clubs.

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