Mike Ashley Starts Selling The Soul Of Newcastle United
If Mike Ashley is going to try for reconciliation with Newcastle United supporters after taking the club off the market he's going strange way about it, with an announcement from...
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Football In The Regions: The North-East
The second in our very occasional (by which I mean once a year or so) look at the history of regional football broadcasting on the television in Britain. Tonight, we...
Newcastle United Lose Two Million-Nil To Kevin Keegan
Newcastle United lost their case before an independent tribunal and have to pay Kevin Keegan £2m in compensation. Mark Murphy wonders how they managed this, when much of the evidence...
Match Of The Midweek: Blackpool 2-1 Newcastle United
Newcastle United have started this season in the Championship, but a long trip west to Blackpool proves to be a step too far with Newcastle showing some unwelcome old habits....
Geoff Sheard: Newcastle’s Knight In Shining Armour?
Geoff Sheard is sniffing around at Newcastle United, but Mark Murphy is less than convinced that he is the right man to lead Newcastle United to a bright, new dawn....
Match Of The Week: West Bromwich Albion 1-1 Newcastle United
Time marches relentlessly on. Three years ago, Damien Duff was kissing a Premier League medal for Chelsea. Two years ago, Scott Carson was (briefly) England’s first choice goalkeeper. This time...
Sir Bobby Robson – 1933-2009
It has been a very sad day for football on the eve of the new season. We have lost one of us. It is, perhaps, a reflection of the hole...
Be Prepared For The Worst Football Kit Designs Ever
Criticism of Newcastle United has long since passed from being some form of sport into being a sadistic ritual, but their new change kit for next season is surely worthy...
The True Price Of Buying Newcastle United
With Setanta now collapsing, this close season is getting more and more difficult for Premier League clubs. Some of these problems, however, have been due to own ill-thought out decisions,...
What The Reaction To Newcastle’s Relegation Tells Us About Ourselves
The last day of the Premier League season will usually bring a last flurry of activity from the press, and last night they went into meltdown. The Guardian, for example,...
Match Of The Week: Aston Villa 1-0 Newcastle United
It had been described as such all season, but it turned out that Newcastle United’s season wasn’t a soap opera after all. It was just an opera. Whilst soap operas...
Alex Ferguson: Revenge Is A Dish Best Served Cold?
As we suspected all along, it has come down to the last day of the season. West Bromwich Albion had managed to postpone the hangman’s noose for a couple of...
Match Of The Week: Newcastle United 3-1 Middlesbrough
It has been a wretched season for the north-east of England. Newcastle United, Middlesbrough and Sunderland have all lurked near the bottom of the Premier League, and it remains uncertain...
Newcastle On The Precipice
When you don’t pay much attention to the Premier League, it becomes pretty easy for it to become a noise in the background. True enough, it’s a shrill, shrieking noise...
Newcastle United Celebrate April Fools’ Day In Style
For all of his talk about the steep learning curve involved in the difference between supporting a football club and managing a football club, the Newcastle United owner Mike Ashley...
Find Out What It Means To Me
Joe Kinnear, one suspects, has been out of football for too long. If he hadn’t been, he wouldn’t have been as completely unaware of the FA’s much publicised “Respect” campaign,...
Hang On A Minute – Joe… WHO?
Newcastle United supporters have spent much of the last couple of weeks being chippy about the rest of the world laughing at their football club. Far enough, in some respects....
The Last Time I’ll Mention Newcastle United On Here For A While. I Promise.
So, it would appear that Newcastle United’s supporters have got approximately fifty per cent of what they wanted, with Mike Ashley’s official announcement that the club is up for sale,...
Boooooooooooooo
There are few things in football that are more pleasurable to hear than a damn good booing, but you don’t hear enough of it these days. Too many football supporters...
A Tale Of Three Cities
It is a grim irony that the newspaper headlines have been consumed with the travails of three clubs who, at various points over the last two years or so, have...