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Ex Newcastle United manager, Chris Hughton won the “North East Sports Personality of the Year Award” at the BBC North East and Cumbria Regional Sports Awards yesterday evening. The event, held at The University of Sunderland, saw Chris winning the award despite being sacked as Newcastle manager in December of last year, supposedly for being [...]

Some people have suggested that Newcastle fans are never happy at the club’s communication policies, complaining that we didn’t hear enough from the club under Chris Hughton but now complaining that we hear too much from the club under Alan Pardew. But I think that’s an oversimplification. Recently we had some snow down here in [...]

As most of you are no doubt aware, midfielder, Dan Gosling, was signed by prevous manager, Chris Hughton on a free when his contract lapsed at Everton. This was despite him carrying a fairly serious anterior cruciate injury, which he picked up after been flattened by Wolves goalkeeper, Marcus Hahnemann, in an Everton game with [...]

The Daily Mail is reporting that John Carver could be set to return to Newcastle and complete Alan Pardew’s backroom staff setup by becoming our new number two. Carver has been is temporary charge of Sheffield United since the departure of Gary Speed, but any hopes of him getting the job full time at Bramall [...]

Chris Hughton has spoke publicly today for the first time since his sacking from Newcastle. In an interview with Sky Sports News, Hughton spoke of the disappointment upon hearing the news that both he and Paul Barron were to be axed, his thoughts on the sacking, and his plans for the future after what was [...]

I see the Sunday papers are reporting en masse that Tottenham Hotspur are set to launch a January bid for Andy Carroll. There are even reports suggesting that David Bentley and Peter Crouch could be used as makeweights in any potential new deal. It’s all bollocks of course and is just the latest in a [...]

Firstly, I felt it was entirely necessary to get one of former managers famous ‘Hughtonism’s’ in the title. Job done on that one. But why though? Well the answer is simple, and that is that the good result over Liverpool at the weekend was almost entirely down to him in my opinion. Football is a [...]

Well the decision that was expected has been made and Alan Pardew is our new manager for what could potentially be the next five-and-a-half years. My own personal view is that this is a sideways step compared to a forwards one, but it’s done now, and at least it puts a rather swift ending to [...]

Former Newcastle chairman Freddy Shepherd has backed the decision to sack Chris Hughton just 16 games into the Premier League season. Shepherd claims that the writing was on the wall for Hughton, and had been for some time, so the decision shouldn’t have come as a shock to people. He even claims he would have [...]

A lot of people are still trying to come to terms with the unexpected sacking of Chris Hughton on Monday. It’s a move that has left many Newcastle fans, neutral fans and media-types scratching their heads, but it’s been done now and can’t be reversed. Naturally all of the speculation at the moment is regarding [...]