Newcastle United Blog.

Newcastle United’s opponents the ‘morra, the ‘Vikings’, or ‘Rovers’ as Doncaster are better known, have had a fairly similar history to Scunthorpe, their closest neighbour. They have yo-yoed through the lower divisions before dropping out of the football league altogether for a time about 10 years ago. Fair play to them, they bounced back to [...]

‘The Iron’ awaits Newcastle United this evening, and no, not the dreaded domestic variety which partners an ironing board, but The Iron of sunny Scunny fame. Scunthorpe, built on one of the largest iron-ore fields in Europe, is home to one of the country’s major steelworks, and the link with iron provides Scunthorpe United with [...]

The Forest fixture against Newcastle United on Saturday brings to mind a bizarre group of matches between our two teams in 1974. Following success in the earlier rounds, Newcastle United found themselves at home in the quarter finals of the FA cup in front of a crowd of 54,500 facing second division Nottingham Forest. Excitement [...]

Saturday afternoon was traditionally an escape for most male football fans. A chance to meet up with the lads, have a few drinks, and let off steam by vociferously informing the manager or referee exactly how to do his job. This was male territory away from wives and girlfriends, a chance to have a good [...]

As we look forward to the Newcastle United v QPR game tomorrow evening, it has made me reminisce about an unbelievable match I witnessed between the two teams 25 years ago this month. I was a homesick student nurse living in London and in fact QPR was probably the nearest big ground to where I [...]

Monday evening sees The Blue Army of newly promoted Leicester City pay their first visit to St James Park since 2004. Having tasted life in Division one, they were promoted as champions at the end of last season and are now enjoying life in the championship. Ex-Toon caretaker boss, Nigel Pearson, now the man in [...]

After planning a trip back home to coincide with the Sheffield Wednesday game I had my 16 year old daughter in tow. She’s much more of a rugby fan being an ardent follower of the Leicester Tigers but does harbour a small passion for the Toon that I have been trying to nurture for years. [...]

What has struck me, and I’m sure so many others over the past few days is not just the huge deluge of tributes from professional footballers, managers, big wigs, journalists and commentators, but also the universal response and outpouring of love from fans of all clubs, demonstrating the immense affection and esteem Sir Bobby was [...]

Today, as Americans celebrate cutting their ties with Great Britain after becoming an independent republican state free from British rule, wouldn’t it be ironic if some of their fellow country men were planning to strengthen their relationship with the Brits by buying Newcastle United, one of the nation’s most famous sporting institutions? As they wait [...]

With the ship’s captain charged and then acquited of the murder of Ted Robledo, one of the famous Robledo Brothers who played in United’s 1951 cup winning team, no-one was to ever find out the truth of what happened to Ted that fateful night. It was 1970 when the ship set sail from Dubai enroute [...]