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Monday, April 4th, 2011Wonga are running a competition for Newcastle fans for a chance to win a Weekend in Blackpool. The prize consists of: 4 Match Tickets (Away End) Overnight Accommodation All Travel Paid for 4 Tickets to Blackpool Pleasure Beach For your chance to win just simply email your name, phone number, and your team to weekends@wonga.com [...]
Christmas White Wash
Saturday, December 18th, 2010Premiership games around the country were called off as heavy snow hits the UK. Our match with Birmingham was officially called off before lunch time and judging by the news footage at St Andrews, it came as no surprise. The match will most likely be re-scheduled into the New Year.
Newcastle United Not For Sale
Tuesday, November 2nd, 2010It was reported in the papers today that Freddy Shepherd was once again trying to form a consortium to buy back Newcastle United from Mike Ashley. This is pretty much news to me but the club released a statement early to quell any of this nonsense: “Newcastle United have had no contact from anybody regarding [...]
Robbie Savage Predicts Newcastle Drop
Wednesday, August 11th, 2010“World class” pundit, Robbie Savage mentioned in an interview that Newcastle are in fact going to drop this season. Here’s the exact quote: “I think Newcastle will go down, they were the stand-out team in our league but we beat them 3-0 at home and drew at their place. Unless they add ten or 12 [...]
Alan Shearer (miffed)
Friday, March 12th, 2010A funny interview of Alan Shearer done by the Guardian’s Small Talk columnist: Interviewer: Apart from a football, did you have a favourite toy when you were a child? Shearer: [Triumphantly] Yes, a goalpost. Much later… Interviewer: Alan, can you tell us a joke? Shearer: Yeah, your questions. Read more here
Joe Kinnear About To Make A Comeback?
Wednesday, August 5th, 2009Joe Kinnear made a stunning claim today on Radio 5 Live that Ashley has offered him a two year contract to return to Newcastle United: “I have been offered a two-year contract and it is something I am mulling over at the present time I have told Mike I am not going to go back [...]
Newcastle United News Updates
Friday, July 3rd, 2009Posted on Lee Ryder’s blog last night was an interesting news flash that a group of asian business men were seen wandering around with Derek Llambias. This supposedly looked as if it was some pre-visit to an actual take over from these people. However, it could mean anything. Mr Ryder then went on to speculate [...]
Profitable Group May Hold the Keys to Newcastle
Tuesday, June 9th, 2009Could this be the good news that fans have been waiting for? Rumblings from the far east may point to an end of Ashley’s torrid reign over Newcastle United. Reported in the Evening Chronicle, Singapore based, Profitable Group have been making some noises to buy out Ashley for his asking price of £100m. A Profitable Group source [...]
Apology from Ashley – Rebuilding Newcastle United
Wednesday, May 27th, 2009To me it was a little late coming but Mike Ashley finally acknowledged his role in the whole relegation saga. In a statement, Mr Ashley said: “Seeing Newcastle United relegated from the Premier League has been a catastrophe for us all,” he said. “I fully accept that mistakes were made during this and previous seasons [...]
The Times Lists Top 50 Newcastle United Players
Thursday, May 14th, 2009The Times online lists what it thinks are the best 50 players ever to set foot in the club. We can rule out Titus Bramble being in there but the likes of Beardsley , Ferdinand, Keegan and of course, Milburn, all feature. The author goes at pains to state that this is his personal preference [...]
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