Archive for the ‘Derek Llambias’ Category

Newcastle United’s full accounts online and broken down

Posted April 13th, 2013 by workyticket | 10 Comments

As many of you out there will be aware, Newcastle United recently announced their figures for the year ended 30th June, 2012. This corresponds to our second season back in the Premiership which, of course, is last season. In the last few days the accounts were finally made public thorugh Companies House, and as usual, [...]

How the Wilfried Bony to Newcastle United story started

Posted March 26th, 2013 by workyticket | 149 Comments

This is a fairly brief note to let you all know that my latest blog for Metro.co.uk is now published. Entitled “How the Wilfried Bony to Newcastle United story started,” it takes a look at how a piece on this site extolling the virtues of Vitesse Arnhem’s prodigious striker eventually led (via the Telegraph) to [...]

The Michael Owen non-contract offer kerfuffle – The facts and the figures

Posted March 25th, 2013 by workyticket | 18 Comments

“Newcastle fans, following my Football Focus interview, plenty of you tweeting me saying you don’t blame me for getting injured but for leaving when we got relegated.” “Despite the club saying they did, they didn’t ever offer me a new contract despite them putting it in the press that they did. How could they when [...]

The FA ruling on Callum McManaman, and Llambias’s response in full

Posted March 19th, 2013 by workyticket | 87 Comments

The FA have finally made their statement on Callum McManaman’s vicious attack on Massadio Haïdara’s knee on Sunday, with news that they will be taking no further action. In their statement on the assault, they claimed that “at least one” of the match officials saw the incident and chose not to take any further action [...]

Guest Blog: Has Alan Pardew Finally Seen the Light?

Posted February 8th, 2013 by ToonBano | 48 Comments

Many thanks to “ToonBano” from the Toon blog www.toonbano.com for his sixth guest blog here – wt. As I get over the shock of actually winning a game from behind for the first time in over two years and trying to get my head around winning back to back victories for the first time this [...]

Have we heard the last of all the Coloccini cobblers now?

Posted January 26th, 2013 by workyticket | 83 Comments

There has been much talk amongst fans in the past few weeks on the situation with Newcastle United’s captain, Fabricio Coloccini. While there is no doubt that the player is having personal problems at the moment, that he made a request to go back and join his family in Argentina, and that one of his [...]

Guest Blog: Laurent Blanc To Become The Next Newcastle Manager?

Posted January 8th, 2013 by ToonBano | 219 Comments

Many thanks to “ToonBano” from the Toon blog www.toonbano.com for his fifth guest blog here – wt. Apologies for the sensationalist headline but bear with me there’s a point to it. My patience with Alan Pardew has been down to a thread for most of this season (just have a little look in my archive [...]

Debuchy deal details (allegedly)

Posted January 1st, 2013 by workyticket | 73 Comments

Since the allegations that the arrival of Lille and France international Mathieu Debuchy on Tyneside was imminent, I have been poring over various French sources for details. This is because it seems that the information coming out of the UK media on the story has just been lifted from a story in French journal, “La [...]

Don’t count on Debuchy signing just yet.

Posted December 31st, 2012 by workyticket | 26 Comments

News has been circulating all over the UK and French media that a deal for Lille full back Mathieu Debuchy had been resurrected, and that the Frenchman would sign for Newcastle United for a fee of around £5.5 million in the imminent January transfer window. So I decided to probe deeper and chase up the [...]

No Debuchy move in January, says Debuchy

Posted December 1st, 2012 by workyticket | 15 Comments

Any fading hope of another Newcastle United transfer move for Lille full-back Mathieu Debuchy in the forthcoming January transfer window were seemingly extinguished by the player himself in one of his most recent press conferences. Speaking on the forthcoming January transfer window, the silly haired Frenchman had this to say: “I will not be leaving [...]

 
 

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