Kinnear delight at display

Interim boss hails performance

Last updated: 6th October 2008

Kinnear delight at display

Kinnear: Pleased

I want to make one thing clear to everybody, I am not interested in doing the press any more while I am at the club.

Joe Kinnear
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Newcastle's interim manager Joe Kinnear was delighted with his side after they claimed a 2-2 draw at Everton on Sunday.

Kinnear saw his side come from two-goals down to seal a morale boosting draw at Goodison Park.

Newcastle's caretaker chief even felt his side could have taken all three points.

"Yes [we could have won], when you consider the two great opportunities

we had to win the game," he told Sky Sports.

"We had two kicked off the line, we were 2-0 down, we pushed the game all the way and if there was anyone going to win the game today it was us.

"We have worked two, three sessions morning and afternoon since I have arrived at the club. I think it is starting to show.

"I was very much concerned that maybe we didn't have enough experience in the side on the pitch, but I am an optimist."

Touchline interference

Kinnear watched the game from the stands due to a touchline ban hanging over from his last spell in management, at Nottingham Forest, four years ago.

He missed Steven Taylor's goal as he left his seat just before the interval and did not see Damien Duff scoring early in the second half either as police stopped him passing a message to the bench.

"I was racing down at half-time when a goal was scored, then I was racing back up again," he said.

"I wanted to get some information onto the bench but of course the busy police got busy as usual and sent me back upstairs again. In between all this I'm missing the goals but it was a great effort by everyone concerned.

"It is something we needed to do. I knew I was under pressure, serious

pressure for what has happened in the past."

Kinnear - who had a huge falling out with the written press earlier this week spoke to them after the game, but then confirmed he would not be doing it again.

"I want to make one thing clear to everybody, I am not interested in doing the press any more while I am at the club," he said,

"I will do television, I will do radio and that way the stories that are going round will make me a lot happier. Anything I have got to say to you [TV] will be the truth.

"What is happening in the press at the moment is scandalous. Nothing has ever been said that is true.

"Most of the stuff that is flying around, they are digging up every Tom, Dick and Harry that used to play for me that I either sacked or got rid of. It is a little bit spiteful.

"I am a football man and that is all I wanted to talk about, I am not interested in politics, never have been.

"I don't mind being criticised on results but the state of things before I walked into the club was outrageous and I am not accepting that. If we start doing well and they start looking for me again the answer is no.

"I know I am capable of doing a good job if I am left to get on with it. I want to leave this club in a really good way and I want to be able to walk out of here, if and whenever that time is, knowing I have left it in a better state than it is (now).

"I have come to a club that has lost five out of the last seven games, morale rock bottom. I have got a big job to do."