That means the row, which reached boiling point when the Welsh international called his manager a liar, is not yet closed.. “I’m like anybody else – there are certain things you can forgive and some things you can forget.”Souness also criticised Bellamy’s goalscoring record, saying: “In his time in senior football he’s averaged 9.3 goals per season Half of those were not in the top flight We need two strikers near 20 goals. “I’m experienced enough to know that if I’d been seen to be weak there was no future for me with the players in the Newcastle dressing-room or [in] any job that I go [to] after Newcastle, so I was put in an extremely difficult position,” Souness said.
The 25-year-old Bellamy completed a loan move to Parkhead until the end of the season on Monday, after rejecting the chance to join Birmingham City in a pounds 6m permanent transfer, and later suggested that he could still have a future on Tyneside.But Souness, who said last week that Bellamy would never play for Newcastle again as long as he remained in charge, insists nothing will change “I stand by everything I said,” the Scot affirmed. GRAEME SOUNESS said yesterday he would have lost the respect of Newcastle’s players and effectively ended his managerial career had he not exiled Craig Bellamy to Celtic following the midfielder’s accusation that his manager was a “liar”. With Campbell and Horsfield restored in attack in preference to Kanu and Earnshaw, they made the brighter beginning.

They should have been in front at half-time, Campbell squandering their best chance by heading over from close range after Purse’s cross had found him inadequately marked.Even so, the odds were in favour of an Albion win until self-inflicted catastrophe struck two minutes in the second period. Hoult did not and Johnson allowed the ball to bounce once before heading it over Hoult.Ultimately Albion’s quest for an equaliser paid off. Powell’s sliced attempted clearance from a Zoltan Gera cross was palmed away desperately by Gabor Kiraly but Campbell forced the ball home. But Palace had the last word, justifiably according to Dowie.”I wasn’t sure Gonzalo had committed a foul let alone deserved a straight red card and I thought we defended heroically after that,” he said. “A point was no more than we deserved.”West Bromwich Albion (4-4-2): Hoult; Albrechtsen (Richardson, 70), Purse, Clement, Robinson; Gera, Scimeca, Wallwork, Greening; Campbell, Horsfield (Earnshaw, 54). He had brought down the Albion striker Geoff Horsfield in full flight but given that the defender was upsides rather than behind his quarry, and that even Wayne Rooney might have been hard pressed to score from Horsfield’s position, wide on the left, the judgement that Sorondo had committed a red-card offence was hard to fathom.Ironically, the home side had not looked in need of help from the officials. “To give away a goal as late as we did is very disappointing,” Pearson said “But there is no point in us giving up the ghost.

We have another big game at Norwich on Saturday and we intend to come back with three points.”The dismissal of Sorondo in only the 12th minute looked particularly harsh. Fitz Hall applied a final touch, although the goal was credited to his team-mate.It was all too much, apparently, for Robson, who sent his assistant, Nigel Pearson, to bang the drum on his behalf. Palace, suspicious that Earnshaw’s goal had been offside, had their own agenda after defending their lead valiantly with 10 men.Gary Borrowdale struck a free-kick into the penalty area, Emmerson Boyce headed goalwards, Aki Riihilahti stretched out a foot and somehow, despite a pack of Albion defenders trying to keep it out, the ball crossed the line. “One hundred per centI stand by everything I said,” the Scot affirmed. Keegan refused to draw the parallel, insisting Anelka, signed for pounds 13m and sold for pounds 7m to the Turkish side Fenerbahce, had to go because of “financial reasons”.”We did have someone lined up to come in but it depended on Nicolas going out, which wasn’t certain until midday yesterday when the window was virtually shut,” Keegan said. “That was a slight disappointment but as far as Nicolas is concerned, I wish him all the best.

It was a financial decision more than anything and there is nothing more to be said.”People will write their articles but as far as I am concerned, that era is gone now and we just have to get on with life.”It would be easy for people to look at this club and say, `You just lost a top player so you can’t be going forward’, but that is something I do not accept.”We have proved here that we can do without him on numerous occasions in the past, now we have to keep doing it,” Keegan added.The new arrival Kiki Musampa will go straight into the City side. The loan signing will take over from Antoine Sibierski on the left of midfield.Sibierski missed training yesterday with a virus but should be fit, although he may have to content himself with a place on the bench.. Hughes expressed disappointment over his former captain’s desire to return north of the border but said Ferguson’s attitude had left him with little choice but to recommend the pounds 5m deal.
Hughes said: “I spoke to Barry before the weekend and I was a little disappointed with what I got back, so on reflection I thought it was best for Barry and ourselves if we all moved on. It’s disappointing, of course, because we really wanted to bring in a couple of quality players to strengthen the team, especially with injuries to several key players.”With Gaizka Mendieta, Ugo Ehiogu, Chris Riggott, George Boateng and Mark Viduka having all been troubled by injuries, McClaren has found himself having to rely on his youngsters. “We have to concentrate on what we have got, ensuring we get our injured players fully fit as soon as possible,” he said. “We are still in a great position in the league and have a very good squad that has got us this far. We must continue to strive to make the remainder of the season the success we believe it can be.”.

Bryan Robson’s side, trailing to Andy Johnson’s goal after the early dismissal of defender Gonzalo Sorondo had given them a one-man advantage, equalised through Kevin Campbell with eight minutes left before the substitute Rob Earnshaw put them ahead in time added on.
Victory seemed theirs, the gap between themselves and 17th place, which Palace themselves occupy, apparently cut from five points to two. Albion had deviated from the script – no one more than Darren Purse, their captain, whose error of judgment two minutes into the second half had handed the lead to Palace – but they needed a win if they were to launch a late escape bid from seemingly inevitable relegation.However, there was another twist. That has left McClaren still struggling with an injury list which is threatening his side’s chances of building on their good first half of the season.”We put a great deal of effort into bringing a couple of top-class players into the squad before the deadline, but unfortunately it wasn’t to be,” he said.”We wanted to sign Bobo Balde, but Celtic weren’t keen to let him go, while we agreed a fee with Chelsea for Geremi, but the player turned down our offer of a three-and-a-half-year deal. On one side he is a brilliant footballer but on the other a little bit dirty, like a lot of us.