Archive for the ‘Alan Shearer’ Category

Club toughens stance on Simmo contract

Posted November 25th, 2011 by Hugh de Payen | 33 Comments

Comments from Newcastle United manager Alan Pardew appear to indicate that Danny Simpson is now at the ‘take or leave it’ stage in contract negotiations. Further to my article a few days ago in which I mentioned the contract situation with Danny Simpson, it seems the club is toughening its stance a bit more if [...]

Derek Llambias blasts past managers in expletive-ridden tirade

Posted November 13th, 2011 by Hugh de Payen | 64 Comments

Newcastle United Managing Director Derek Llambias serves up an expletive-ridden speech against Keegan, Shearer, Hughton and Carroll. Amidst all the furore of stadium renaming, you’d think one of the things our Managing Director would try to do is talk around the fans and sweeten them up to the whole fiasco. Well that might be what [...]

Were Keegan’s “Entertainers” really the blueprint for Barcelona, Manchester City and Manchester United?

Posted October 10th, 2011 by workyticket | 35 Comments

Speaking in a recent interview (here and here) on his “Entertainers” side of the 1990s, ex Newcastle United manager, Kevin Keegan, suggested that his own “Entertainers” side of the ‘nineties were the vanguard for current attacking teams such as Barcelona, Manchester City and Manchester United. Speaking on the eve of a reunion last weekend with [...]

Pardew’s lose-lose situation

Posted August 12th, 2011 by geordiedug | 39 Comments

So a few weeks ago i decided that I was going to try and be as positive as possible about Newcastle United and to try and look on the bright side of life with regards to the current manager. Reading this blog daily, and like most Toon fans, not in the North East, I crave [...]

Joey Barton: “They have decided I am persona non grata”.

Posted August 1st, 2011 by workyticket | 80 Comments

In his latest Tweets, Newcastle United has given his latest ‘insights’ on his dramatic transfer listing by the club, which I covered in a previous ‘blog. After announcing that he would be making an announcement about his future at the club at 4PM today, he was fashionably late, but eventually tweeted: “Somewhere in those high [...]

Is it time for the unpredictable Mr Ashley to speak to us?

Posted July 19th, 2011 by Hugh de Payen | 48 Comments

What is Newcastle United owner Mike Ashley up to and is it time for him to let us in on his plans? Mike Ashley still divides opinion at Newcastle. Some people like him and think he’s good for the club and others hate him and would have him hogtied, marched to the Bigg Market and [...]

Micky Quinn: “Who ate all the goals?”

Posted July 2nd, 2011 by Thump | 27 Comments

Micky Quinn has been trying to become the new Supermac by trying to spout rhetoric and his (often misguided) opinions – usually when things are going well. His words recently didn’t earn him any special consideration with fans but it did give us a chance to work off some fat jokes and that can never [...]

The next Newcastle number 9?

Posted June 21st, 2011 by Hugh de Payen | 35 Comments

On arrival at Newcastle United Demba Ba was handed the number 19 shirt, leaving the number 9 shirt vacant. Does this indicate that there are plans to recruit another striker to fill it or is the shirt going to be retired for a while? The Newcastle United number 9 shirt is of course sacred. Leaving [...]

Shearer waxes lyrical

Posted May 18th, 2011 by Hugh de Payen | 4 Comments

Former Newcastle United number 9 Alan Shearer is shocked that Madam Tussauds waxwork looks just like him. Madame Tussauds’ sculptors have spent four months creating a carbon copy of Alan Shearer for their waxworks in Blackpool. The man himself went to unveil the waxwork and was suitably impressed, saying: “I think they’ve done such a [...]

Shearer impressed with Newcastle’s 2010/2011 season

Posted May 11th, 2011 by Hugh de Payen | 7 Comments

Alan Shearer comments on Newcastle United’s 2010/2011 season. Alan Shearer has been passing judgement on Newcastle’s 2010/2011 season and the former number 9 seems fairly content with the way things have gone. Shearer said: “If I’m honest they have done better than I thought. “I think I was like everyone else, probably a little bit [...]

 
 

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