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A few days after Newcastle United’s already despised Managing Director, Derek Llambias, announced the club’s corporate renaming of the club’s traditional home as “The Sports Direct Arena”, it would be hard to imagine his or Mike Ashley’s reputation sinking any lower. However all that has changed now after one simple drunken rant in a bar [...]

I think I am more upset that I’m not as upset as the majority of fans are about the nasty re branding of St James Park. I was surprised to see the new name as I thought it was going to be blah blah blah @ St James Park, but we all knew this was [...]

The somewhat unexpected inclusion of Nile Ranger for Newcastle United’s ill fated League Cup encounter with Blackburn signals something a second chance for the young striker. Although he is still way back in the pecking order, with Alan Pardew suggesting in a phone in on BBC Radio Newcastle’s “Total Sport” that even 19 year Sammy [...]

Hatem Ben Arfa has had a somewhat unfortunate time on Tyneside thus far, but with his injuries now hopefully behind him, will we see him make his first Premier League start this weekend against Wigan Athletic? You may remember the 3rd of October 2010, when a psychopathic Nigel De Jong decided to attempt a ‘tackle’ [...]

He’s come a long way since he joined the ranks of Newcastle United as a £10.3M Centre Back under the control of Kevin Keegan. It’s probably debateable whether Keegan even wanted him in, but I don’t remember there being too much dissent when he transferred. We all knew of him through his days playing for [...]

Newcastle United owner Mike Ashley has certainly presided over a good start to this 2011/2012 season, but how – if at all – does this alter our opinion of the man? We’re over a 5th of the way through the season and sitting proudly in 4th position in the Premier League. Somewhere along the line [...]

Right, let’s have some ratings for the Blackburn win! It was pretty much good stuff all round with a decent showing from a team that’s starting to gel. Very few black marks, the odd smudge, but nothing we couldn’t surmount. Here goes! Tim Krul 7.5: Tim is fast becoming yet another top Toon ‘keeper and [...]

Newcastle United manager Alan Pardew sees our fourth round Carling Cup draw as ‘tough’. Alan Pardew sees the next rounds’ Carling Cup draw as ‘tough’ but is thankful we weren’t drawn away against one of the ‘top’ clubs. Pardew said: “It’s a shame [that it's an away draw], but we want games because these players [...]

Full match report >> NU3-BR1 by heybs Highlights of a game in which Newcastle dominated with almost 60% of the possession and many more shots on target than Blackburn Rovers (see stats below). Features Demba Ba’s hat-trick, and a consolation goal for Rovers from Junior Hoilett. Have now posted extended highlights of the game for [...]