Kinnear the Patsy Is Running Out of Time and Options ; Football Columnist

Mail on Sunday › February 10, 2009

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MUCH as he needed to get players in, the manager was relating how glad he would be when the transfer window was over. The record for one day this January, he was telling me, had been 14 agents on the phone and he was now switching off the mobile for a couple of hours to escape into a film in a darkened cinema.

By contrast, as he scrambles to make last-gasp moves in the market along with many other desperate ashenfaced supremos as macho, posturing clubs take deals that could have been done weeks ago to the brink, Newcastle's caretaker patsy Joe Kinnear must be wishing it could be extended beyond tomorrow's deadline.

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Kinnear the Patsy Is Running Out of Time and Options ; Football Columnist

Injuries in midweek to Michael Owen, Joey Barton and Charles N'Zogbia -- the latter wounded pride -- to add to the already snaking queue for the treatment room, have intensified ...

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