Alan
Pardew felt Newcastle did not get the breaks following the 1-0 home defeat by
Arsenal and should have been awarded a free-kick before Olivier Giroud scored.
Giroud
headed home the only goal of the game on 65 minutes when the French striker got
on the end of Theo Walcott's chipped free-kick.
The
set-piece was awarded after Cheick Tiote had fouled Santi Cazorla, however,
Pardew believes referee Lee Probert should have given his side a free-kick.
Pardew,
though, acknowledged the decisions had gone in Newcastle's favour during Boxing
Day's 5-1 victory over Stoke City and he was left frustrated by the manner of
the goal his team conceded.
He
said: "There was definitely a foul before then on [Vurnon] Anita, without
a shadow of a doubt; there was a foul on [Moussa] Sissoko that he [referee Lee
Probert] didn't give.
"In
terms of the breaks of the decisions, I don't want to say the referee had a
poor game, but sometimes he sees those calls and they go your way, sometimes
they don't.
"Against
Stoke, we had all the calls go our way and today, perhaps we were on the other
side of it.
"It's
just frustrating, a little bit, that we have not got something on the
scoreboard in terms of a point, no more than that.
"One
set-play where we didn't defend well has cost us and we have been good at them
all year."
Culled
from Skysports
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