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Heat problems, turf issues and a collection of cartoon characters stood in the way of today’s game. Undeterred, Newcastle United went to watch a game of football – and that’s about all they did. Immediately after kick off, the lads were forced to defend as Orlando City threw everything they had at us. Misplaced pass [...]

The transfer market is a strange and sometimes scary place, with confusion abound by exactly how much money we apparently have, others have the knowledge only provided by Football Manager and FIFA and you’d be surprised how correct that actually is. The long and short is, we have never had £35m to spend – never. [...]

Newcastle United midfielder Alan Smith is a potential target for Leeds United. Many an argument has ensued in recent weeks about whether or not we should be getting rid of the older, more experienced players but I tend to think the majority of Toon fans feel that Alan Smith has outstayed his usefulness at the [...]

Newcastle United are supposedly interested in an Egyptian midfielder whilst Sam Allardyce wants our captain at West Ham. Tomorrow might be a better day for transfer gossip as that’s when the French transfer window creaks open and allows a plethora of Gallic talent to enter the market. Given where our scouts seem to have been [...]

Alan Smith is back in training but may not play for Newcastle again until next season. The last time Alan Smith played for us was back in January against Brucie’s louts. During that game his ankle was broken by Kieron Richardson and he’s been crocked ever since. However, Smith fans will be pleased to know [...]

Speculation is a popular January pastime in football and the latest transfer rumours have Newcastle United interested in Leeds winger Max Gradel with a possible move the other way for Alan Smith. The rumour, courtesy of Sky Sports, does beg some questions though, the first of which being whether Leeds – currently 5th in the [...]

Andy Carroll has withdrawn from the England Under-21 squad for tomorrow nights match against Uzbekistan at Ashton Gate. Carroll came off at half-time with a back injury in the match against Rangers at the weekend, and was closely followed by Jose Enrique who also suffered a some form of knock. There is still a week [...]

The Newcastle captaincy is still up for grabs for this season, but who will be the likely heir to the captains armband? The full-time club captain is yet to be named although it seems likely that either Alan Smith or Kevin Nolan will get the honour of the captaincy this season. The next captain won’t [...]

The captains armband is up for grabs at the minute after being left vacant by the now departed Nicky Butt, but who, in your opinion, is the most deserving and most likely candidate for the role next season? Newcastle are kind of lucky in that regard as we have a lot of players who have [...]

Alan Smith has today admitted something that most Newcastle fans have known for some time now – that his days of being a marauding striker are are over. This will come as no surpirse at all to us fans who have watched him strut his stuff in midfield throughout the majority of his time with [...]