He's not an easy scapegoat at all, everyone disagreed with me about a month ago, now that he's been putting in these shit performances people are now starting to see. He isn't reliable enough, against Juventus he shouldn't of had too much of a problem, the game wasn't fast paced and he didn't have to react quick or run as much. And just when it was his chance to put in a decent performance, he put in the worst sloppy passes in the world. Everytime we where gaining momentum he was misplacing passes and giving it back to Juve, and he's meant to be our safe player, the player you can pass to, too release the pressure, and he was the one giving the fucking ball away all the time. Not good enough by Mikel and it makes me wonder, if he can't play well in these sort of games he's hopeless. But what are you going to say?, that Tiote isn't good enough because Newcastle got results without him?, well look at that against Everton, Newcastle got fucking smashed without Tiote, and managed to get a point, but with Everton dominating the game and having two goals not allowed even though they should of been allowed. And they got smashed off Aston Villa... Tiote is just what we needed.