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.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."Beating West brom was also important because we wanted to win for Joe Kinnear," Coloccini said."When somebody is out of action like that you need to show that you remember them, and winning is our way of doing that.""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."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."We know what wasn't good about the game and now we can train harder."We showed fight against West brom. There were lots of goals, but we managed to emerge as the winners."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."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."I would imagine that as soon as he can after that he'll be on the phone.It is very much a personal thing with Joe; the lads are very fond of him."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."

Source: Telegraph