Alan Shearer blasted referee Howard Webb after he disallowed a goal from Mark Viduka as Newcastle plunged back into the relegation zone.
The Magpies were trailing 1-0 to Diomansy Kamara's 41st-minute goal at St James' Park when the Australia international headed home a 50th-minute Danny Guthrie corner.
Referee Webb ruled out the strike for a foul on goalkeeper Mark Schwarzer by Kevin Nolan, although television replays suggested Shearer's side were desperately unfortunate.
Shearer and assistant Iain Dowie confronted the official as he left the pitch and the manager was still fuming when he conducted his post-match press conference.
He said: "We are bitterly disappointed at the disallowed goal. I have seen it and I can't see anything that's wrong with it."
Shearer added: "You are allowed to put someone in front of the goalkeeper - I am not aware that you are meant to get out of the way of him. I thought their player was blocking him more than Kevin Nolan was, so I am disappointed with that."
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nice one geordie girls!!youve cheered me up no ends ha ha ha from a happy smoggy!!!!boro till i die....
Hello, my footy fans, it marnio here from the peru.
now the georgies are going to be the regulated. they were once the greatest football team in the world but now they the ruubish. they have the many fans, but they all like the cave man. they drink the many pints of the beer which destroy all their brain cells. they walk about and grunt at each other like the primates. for them the football and the heavy drinking is all they have. the georgie land is like the bomb site, there no work, the no food and the no prospects. the place is like the time that civilisation forgot. for these people mr shearer and mr keegan let down the very badly.
Dumb arsed newcastle fans out side of your tiny city you are a laughing stock i cannot wait for you to go down, geordie @#$%.
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