http://newells.theoffside.com News from Newell's Old Boys Argentina football team Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:24:46 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The AFA's disciplinary committee today handed down a hefty penalty for Sánchez Prette's tackle on Racing's Martin Cáceres. Cáceres will be out of action for eight months. I thought he'd get a match or two, but five is way more than anyone thought. Some rule or the other allows the committee ... http://newells.theoffside.com/team-news/5-match-suspension-for-sanchez-prette.html Just a short clip of the goals tonight. Oh and Newell's provided all three goals with Boghossian scoring an own goal before netting the winner in the 86th minute. http://newells.theoffside.com/team-news/tigre-1-2-newells.html Well, Schiavi has been not been ruled out but team doctors are recommending that el Flaco sit this one out. Seeing as how Tigre are bottom of table, it makes sense to rest him. He's got a small tear in the muscle of his left foot (I'm not sure what ... http://newells.theoffside.com/team-news/up-next-tigre.html Newell's continued their winning ways with a thriller against Racing. Racing came in on a bad run of form and tried to grind out a 0 - 0 draw by parking a bus in front of their goal that almost worked. Once Newell's scored, courtesy of Juan Manuel Insaurralde and about ... http://newells.theoffside.com/team-news/newells-1-0-racing.html In a must have game if Newell's wanted to become a serious contender, Uruguayan Joaquín Boghossian answered the bell for Newell's, finding the back of the net twice and narrowly missing a third. Video after the jump. It's hard to imagine Newell's having won the game without him. He was definitely ... http://newells.theoffside.com/team-news/velez-1-2-newells-aka-boghossians-coming-out.html With the big win this Saturday over fellow contender Vélez, in el Fortín in Liniers, no less, Newell's pulls to within one point of the summit in a three-way tie with Estudiantes and Banfield, trailing only Colón. Racing stumbles into town tomorrow night for a mid-week tie and to say it ... http://newells.theoffside.com/team-news/shades-of-04.html It's started. Over at la Lepra's official website the poll is up and the early results are a runaway for naming el Coloso after Marcelo Bielsa. As of a few minutes ago it was something like 1085 for and 57 against. I thought I had read that you had to ... http://newells.theoffside.com/team-news/the-polls-are-open.html It doesn't favor Newell's so well. The home team has won the last eight matches and el Fortín hold a decisive lead in the series, 58-37-34. La Lepra have even drawn more than they've won. To make things worse, Newell's has been shut out on 10 of their last 12 trips ... http://newells.theoffside.com/team-news/nob-velez-history.html Yep, just a scant few weeks after the non-existent penalty call on Machuca that cost Newell's the draw (and two points that would put us on top) and the dodgy sending off of Schiavi, we get every lepers favorite referee, Gabriel Favale. I don't know that it means anything, after all, ... http://newells.theoffside.com/team-news/favale-to-ref-velez-clash.html Seems like the directors are going to put out a survey to gauge the receptiveness of the Lepra faithful for naming the stadium after Newell's favorite son, Marcelo Bielsa. Things are all touchy-feely right now between the fans and el Loco, what with him saying that he could never love another ... http://newells.theoffside.com/team-news/el-coloso-to-be-renamed-for-el-loco-bielsa.html