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The 26-year-old's case will be heard by a regulatory commission on Wednesday morning, sense the Magpies will know whether or not he is available for the Barclays Premier League feud with Blackburn later the same day.

An FA statement read: "Newcastle United midfielder Yohan Cabaye has denied a instruction of violent conduct. Cabaye was charged following an incident in the FA Cup fourth about tie against Brighton on Saturday, January 28. A regulatory commission will be told the charge on Wednesday, February 1, 2012."

Newcastle manager Alan Pardew launched a hotheaded defence of the former Lille man following his clash with Brighton defender Adam El-Abd, who has written a the humanities to the commission to support Cabaye's claims of innocence.

Pardew, who was hapless at the extent to which the incident was highlighted during television coverage of the game, said: "I am definitely livid about it, if I am honest, because firstly, when the incident happened, I didn't see anything indecorous with it.

Source: Belfast Telegraph

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And then there were 16. Well, 19 to be word-for-word, pending three replays a week from Tuesday in the FA Cup. But the whittling of a competitive, hungering field this past weekend saw a handful of upsets, a modicum of disquietude and some of the drama one expects from soccer's oldest cup competition. ( Strikingly at Anfield .)

That said, enough Prem teams survived the cull to insure that as the fifth round kicks in three weeks from now, it'll feel like another EPL weekend. Until then, let's Dialect expect and pray that Stevenage can topple Tottenham Hotspur, eh?

In the meantime, here are four things I noticed over the weekend.

You can inform about a striker to track back, but you can't make him tackle properly

The modern position demands a lot of its players. We're taught that in the "olden days," men were men, halftime oranges were rejected in favor of cigarettes and beer, strikers hovered around the forfeit area for 90 minutes and everyone knew how to play their part. But since the Dutch "Mount up to Football" concept destroyed such compartmentalization, the aim of the game is versatility, and teams that have 10 outfield players righteous as comfortable marauding upfield as they are lunging in to deny goal-scoring opportunities will lean to prevail.

Source: ESPN

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