If McClaren can’t inspire these players to fight for survival, this isn’t the...
As sure as night follows day, another Newcastle United manager is on the brink and the fans are to blame. Or at least that’s the same tiring message that some pundits are still pushing. Once again,...
View ArticleNewcastle United have entered unchartered territory – is it all too little,...
In 2013, 2014 and 2015, the club’s Premier League status was saved by the arrival of summer; in 2009, the season’s end came too late. The Magpies have repeatedly amassed their points total early in...
View ArticleNewcastle United; This is the road to relegation
Lofty ambitions, second-from-bottom in October; this is the road to relegation. Eyeing up the cups, just the third round in both; this is the road to relegation. Dumped from the second tier, a boss no...
View ArticleLascelles and Dummett show the desire to lead Newcastle United survival bid
Granting the captain’s armband to cowardly Champions League chaser Moussa Sissoko didn’t appear the most obvious way for Rafa Benitez to muster some spirit from his hopeless Newcastle United. And yet,...
View ArticleNewcastle United fans are noisy, happy and with Rafa Benitez – That’s where...
Football supporters spend years pursuing that moment, encouraged not by any indication that it might arrive, but by hope alone. It might only be a moment; fleeting and sometimes lasting mere seconds,...
View Article3 things we learnt from Newcastle United’s 2015/16 Premier League season
And so, after four seasons idly treading water, Newcastle United have drowned, relegated to the Championship. To make matters worse, it was Sam Allardyce’s Sunderland who held their heads under the...
View ArticleStill 132 points to play for, Newcastle United need to remain in their bubble
“Because we have 52,000 in the stadium, doesn’t mean we’ll win games. Because we’re Newcastle United, doesn’t mean we’ll win games.” The words of Matt Ritchie after Newcastle’s shock 2-1 home defeat on...
View ArticleNewcastle United have made a “really good signing” in ex-Sunderland forward...
I probably shouldn’t mention this in a Newcastle United blog, but my first foray into journalism was commentating on Sunderland home games for a hospital radio station. It wasn’t the easiest at times;...
View ArticleNewcastle United’s Rafa has changed how I view football and 90s music
This may seem like an odd way to start a football blog, however I was watching Catchphrase on Saturday night and Heather Smalls was singing ‘Movin On Up’ at the end of the show. I think it was a...
View ArticleFingers crossed Newcastle United’s Matz Sels proves the abusers wrong
October 29, 2002, was a significant day in my life evolution. Not because Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick gave birth to their first child, or that Winona Ryder was explaining her help...
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