Beye: Players must spark another great atmosphere

May 15 2009 by Steve Brown, The Journal

Not least because United came back from the early setback of Beye’s own goal. Not that it caused the experienced Senegalese international too much concern.

Where once his confidence might have been rocked by such an unfortunate error, Beye was instead inspired by it, as were his team-mates.

But while three precious points were ultimately claimed at Boro’s expense, Beye knows Newcastle’s work is far from done just yet.

“When the own goal went in I just thought ‘Well sometimes this happens’,” he said. “I’m 31, I’m not a young kid. When I scored an own goal at the start of my career it was really hard, I was 21. Now I’m 31 I know the game is never over and I can’t do anything about an own goal once it’s gone in.

“You can’t be sorry for yourself after four minutes, and not play any more. Straight away I knew we had to go forward and try and get our confidence back. I didn’t think about the (own) goal for the rest of the game. It was really unlucky but I just said ‘We must come back, keep playing and win the game’.

“I knew with the quality and the spirit we have we could do that. I don’t want to say it helped us, but when you get a setback like that it makes you come out and try to make it right.

“We started the game really badly, giving Middlesbrough a goal. But because we kept pushing and pressing them we scored after nine minutes, and then went on to win the game.

“But it’s not enough, it’s not the end of our season.

“We have six points to go for before then and I hope and believe we can get them.”

: WIGAN striker Marlon King has been ordered to stand trial for allegedly groping and punching a woman in a nightclub.

The 29-year-old, currently on loan at Middlesbrough, allegedly attacked the 20-year-old at the Soho Revue bar in London last December. King spoke only to confirm his name and deny two charges at a short hearing in London.

Lisa Wilding, defending, said although there were trial dates available this August, her client’s wife was expecting to give birth on August 13. Judge Nicholas Loraine-Smith eventually told the Jamaica international that his five-day trial would start on October 26.