Newcastle United Blog.

Venue: St James’ Park, Newcastle Date: Saturday, October 22nd, 2011 Kick-off: 3:00pm Referee: Neil Swarbrick. Roberto Martinez brings his Wigan squad up to Tyneside this Saturday, as Newcastle United will look to continue their undefeated record in all competitions so far this season. There is no live UK broadcast of the match, but due to [...]

The stretchering off of Newcastle United’s Hatem Ben Arfa has raised some questions (at least with this writer) about whether we are indeed an injury-prone club. This article was prompted by the recent injury to Hatem Ben Arfa in Newcastle’s 0-0 draw with Sporting Kansas City, but it’s something that has concerned me for quite [...]

Birmingham allegedly want Newcastle’s Leon Best. Dan Gosling and Hatem Ben Arfa gets in some early pre-season training. And Michael Owen seems to have upset a few people. With all the speculation about who we might be buying, I’d quite forgotten that other teams might want some of our players other than Jose Enrique. If [...]

Michael Owen hints that Newcastle United were a ‘poor team’ when he was playing for them. Michael Owen, who has recently signed a deal to keep him at Man Utd for another year, has allegedly had a bit of a pop at the Toon. According to Twitty, he said: “Just to answer some of your [...]

Ex Newcastle United striker, Michael Owen, who was a late substitute for Manchester United in yesterday evening’s game against the Magpies, has been giving it both barrels about Newcastle fans on his ‘Twitter’ page, where he humbly refers to himself as ‘the’ Michael Owen, to avoid confusion with a web developing namesake on the ‘micro-blogging’ [...]

Andy Carroll looks set to start for England tomorrow where he will pick up his first senior international cap against France at Wembley. Fair play to the lad as he deserves his chance. I just hope he doesn’t pick up an injury that will keep him out of action for his club! Anyway, I digress. [...]

It’s been a turbulent 12 months for Newcastle United, but after a season in the second tier we can now once again, ahem, look forward to the regular visits of Manchester United, Chelsea and all the rest. It took some luck, some balls of steel, a bit of skill and many more factors to click [...]

First off, I apologise for digging up old ground, and secondly, I am only doing it as something has always niggled at me about why Michael Owen turned out to be less than effective during his time on Tyneside. It was supposed to be the move that set Newcastle up for the future, the arrival [...]

Jermaine Beckford looks to have blown his chances of playing Premier League football at St James’ Park next season as boss Chris Hughton pursues other targets in his quest to strengthen the squad during the summer Beckford was the subject of quite intense interest from Newcastle back in January and was the target of a [...]

As you’re probably aware, Newcastle United’s Boxing day trip to Sheffield Wednesday will mark our 23rd league game of the season, marking the half-way point in what is turning out to be a fantastic season so far! This article takes a look at some of the happenings since the season began way back on the [...]