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Alan Pardew praises Newcastle United fans for their support this season and reckons the fans have been worth an extra place or two for the team. So, just the one game to go then. And then what are we going to have in terms of football until next season? Well I suppose there’ll be the [...]

With a top six place and Europa League entry assured for next season, Newcastle United head into the last game knowing that mathematically we could still play in the Champions league if results go our way on the final day. So continuing with the “Top Six” theme – what are the top six things we [...]

One-time Newcastle United chief Freddy Shepherd has been putting a downer on things by suggesting that Papiss Cisse could be sold in the summer, but how much truth is there in that? Ex-Toon phlebotomist Freddy Shepherd seems to think our chances of hanging on to resident goal-merchant Papiss Cisse will be slim this summer and [...]

Newcastle United’s Managing Director, Derek Llambias, has been speaking to David Conn for yesterday’s Guardian. In the interview he spoke on how he has received so much abuse from Geordie ingrates that he doesn’t hear it any more, how Mike Ashley told him that he would have “a horrible job” in May 2008, just before [...]

Newcastle United suffered at the hands of a top-quality Wigan on Saturday and it will be a big test of their character to see if they can bounce back from that in Wednesday’s match against Chelsea. The weekend’s defeat by a resurgent Wigan brought us down to Earth with a thump after a 6-game unbeaten [...]

Newcastle United could suffer if Chelsea prevail with their European ventures this season. It might mean that only the top 3 positions in the Premier League qualify for the Champions League. There are those who would tell you that there’s no such thing as luck and that its all down to averages and subjective determination. [...]

With four games left to play Newcastle United find themselves in 4th place and battling for a Champions League place. So how does the run-in look for us and the teams around us? Saturday’s win against Stoke made it six wins on the trot and it saw us leap into 4th place, ahead of a [...]

It is certainly fitting of Newcastle’s unexpectedly successful season that, on the night of the 12th March, after a 2-1 defeat to Arsenal at the Emirates, they trailed the 4th placed Gunners by eight points. It looked like the wheels had come off the North East bandwagon and they would slip into the mid-table mediocrity [...]

The English media are a fickle lot. They campaign long and loud for whatever issues they perceive are popular with the public, whatever will get them readers, listeners or viewers – yet reserve the right to change their minds overnight and start saying the exact opposite without so much as a “by your leave”. They [...]

Newcastle United striker Demba Ba was allegedly ‘unhappy’ when he was taken off against Bolton but there was little hint of any unhappiness in Ba’s recent interview. There has been a bit of speculation about whether or not Demba Ba is happy to play on the left of a front three but the man himself [...]