Source: Telegraph
Joe Kinnear set to forget Charles N'Zogbia and Andy Carroll fight
Kinnear has decided that he will not disciplining the pair after they traded blows when French midfielder N'Zogbia reacted angrily to a late challenge by Carroll during a practice session.[LNB]The pair had to be dragged apart by their colleagues and the training session was hastily abandoned but they are understood to have locked horns again in the dressing room.[LNB]Despite the Kinnear has attempted to play down the fracas which took place at Newcastle's Darsley Park practice ground.[LNB]"It was just handbags, and it's been blown out of all proportion," Kinnear said.[LNB]"I can't stop players being passionate, and wouldn't want to. I won't be taking any action.[LNB]"It was a very intense, excellent training session, as we always have at the club. It was a fiery session.[LNB]"There was a late challenge, and a reaction to it. The players were working to the max -" it was as simple as that." N'Zogbia and Carroll came to blows in front of shocked Carlisle players who were on Tyneside for a practice match on an adjacent pitch.[LNB]"It was a bit of a scrap," said a Carlisle source. "It didn't go on for too long - " they were split up after a bit. But we all saw it. It was just a training ground bust-up, the sort of thing that happens." [LNB]Another Carlisle source added: "While the Carlisle players were warming up it all exploded on the other pitch â " Carroll and N'Zogbia looked like they were going at it.[LNB]"It got broken up, but we heard afterwards that they went at it again in the dressing rooms. We know these things happen in football, but everybody was shocked." [LNB]A Newcastle spokesman added: "It was a bit of handbags and an incident that has probably happened at other training grounds up and down the country lots of times before." [LNB]The incident took place shortly after Kinnear and Hull counterpart Phil Brown were charged with improper conduct by the Football Association following their touchline bust-up during their clubs' FA Cup tie at St James' Park last week.[LNB]They have been given until February 4 to respond to the charge. [LNB]
