Source: PA
Nolan urges all parties to move on
Newcastle skipper Kevin Nolan is desperate for the club to shed its `Loony Toons' tag after another eventful week on Tyneside.
The Magpies catapulted themselves into the national headlines once again on Monday when owner Mike Ashley decided to dispense with the services of manager Chris Hughton and replace him with Alan Pardew, to the fury of players and fans alike, but they ended the week with a morale-boosting 3-1 victory over Liverpool which brought an uneasy peace to the city, for the time being at least.
Nolan, one of the first to speak out about the decision to sack Hughton, admitted the nature of football dictates that things move on. He said: "Even Alan said after the game, 'I know a lot of it was for Chris, I know a lot of it was for yourselves to prove to a lot of people' because we want to get away from that 'Loony Toons' tag, we want to get away from everything being up in the air at Newcastle.
"We want to stay away from that part of the game. We want to just focus on our football and let that do the talking, and we did on Saturday."
