Source: Telegraph
Fabricio Coloccini: Newcastle players will fight for Joe Kinnear
The Argentine centre-half spoke out as Kinnear, 62, was undergoing triple heart bypass surgery that will keep him off work for at least two months of the Premier League season.[LNB]Kinnear was taken to hospital last Saturday after feeling unwell at the team hotel ahead of the 3-2 victory over West Bromwich Albion and Coloccini claimed his manager's health scare was the catalyst for their first league win this year.[LNB]"Beating West brom was also important because we wanted to win for Joe Kinnear," Coloccini said.[LNB]"When somebody is out of action like that you need to show that you remember them, and winning is our way of doing that."[LNB]"Hopefully we will look back on this day at the end of the season and feel that this was the turning point." Newcastle return to action a week on Sunday when Everton head to St James' Park and Coloccini is convinced his side will look forward to the game with confidence.[LNB]"The other good thing is that we have had a break before the next game so we can think about the errors we made as well," Coloccini added.[LNB]"We know what wasn't good about the game and now we can train harder.[LNB]"We showed fight against West brom. There were lots of goals, but we managed to emerge as the winners.[LNB]"Beating West brom was very important for us. They are down there with us and we had to put some daylight between us. I think this can give us something to build on and we can now look forward." Newcastle caretaker manager Hughton is expecting Kinnear, who suffered a heart attack ten years ago while managing Wimbledon, to contact him as quickly as possible following his operation.[LNB]"I'd imagine at the first available time he'll be ringing up and, of course, as we go into our next game against Everton," said Hughton who will supervise first-team affairs with coach Colin Calderwood.[LNB]"I would imagine that as soon as he can after that he'll be on the phone.[LNB]It is very much a personal thing with Joe; the lads are very fond of him.[LNB]"But with what we've been through this season they're used to refocusing on what they have to do -" training, playing games and, more importantly, trying to win football matches." [LNB]
