Trouble at the Darlington v Newcastle United pre-season friendly receives condemnation from the press and the clubs themselves. It seems the Darlington nonsense has (rightly) received a fair bit of condemnation. Pitch invasions are never welcomed these days and it does nothing good for the reputations of either Newcastle United or Darlington. From what I [...]
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The Darlington bust-up: reports, interviews and video
Posted July 16th, 2011 by Hugh de Payen | 47 CommentsDoes Mike Ashley have cruel intentions?
Posted June 30th, 2011 by Jimbob | 38 CommentsMike Ashley’s ’5 year plan’ is to create a self sufficient business model, this is the aim for his Newcastle United project. Now, this should be the aim for any business, and especially where football clubs are concerned with the financial rules set to take effect, and the current state of the economic climate. This [...]
Tiote commits to Toon until 2017
Posted February 25th, 2011 by Hugh de Payen | 62 CommentsTiote signs up with Newcastle United for another six and a half years. According to NUFC’s official site, Cheik Tiote has signed a new contract keeping him at Newcastle until June 2017. Tiote said: “I am very happy today to have signed this new deal with Newcastle United. “The experience of playing in the Premier [...]
John Carver appointed as Pardew’s number 2
Posted January 18th, 2011 by Hugh de Payen | 63 CommentsJohn Carver has joined Newcastle United as assistant manager on contract until the end of the season. Carver said: “I am proud and honoured to be able to come back once again to my hometown club. “I have been lucky to be able to work around the world with some excellent people. “However, I have [...]
Pardew gets Newcastle United job – now official
Posted December 9th, 2010 by Hugh de Payen | 205 CommentsCarroll, Nolan, and Newcastle United deny newspaper allegations.
Posted November 7th, 2010 by toonsy | 27 CommentsI’ll keep this brief as I don’t want it take the gloss of the fantastic win at Arsenal, but I also feel that it is important enough to cover in an article. There was a newspaper report this morning that alleged that two Newcastle players, namely Kevin Nolan and Andy Carroll, had been behaving badly. [...]
A vote of confidence? Or a statement of solidarity?
Posted October 28th, 2010 by toonsy | 104 CommentsNewcastle seek FA action over De Jong.
Posted October 5th, 2010 by toonsy | 145 CommentsNewcastle have asked the FA to punish Nigel de Jong for the challenge that resulted in Hatem Ben Arfa sustaining a broken Fibia and Tibula at the weekend. It is understood that the club are far from happy over the tackle and feel it was ‘unnecessary and used excessive force’. They are also writing a [...]
Ashley’s paper statement is in tatters.
Posted June 4th, 2010 by toonsy | 73 CommentsNewcastle release another statement.
Posted May 27th, 2010 by toonsy | 80 CommentsNewcastle United have today released another statement, this time aimed at the press, and in particular the Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday. Reporters from those publications were banned from attending games at Newcastle, banned from the training ground, and banned from press conferences after some awful reporting on their part regarding issues around our [...]
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