Newcastle United Blog.

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 [...]

If we were to listen to the naysayers and those in desperate need of a long course of anti-depressants, the starting XI will be gone come the summer transfer window. We have always been a selling club, will always be a selling club and unless Ashley leaves, we will remain a selling club. After all, [...]

Newcastle succumbed to a 3-1 defeat at St James’ Park this afternoon, but it wasn’t as straight forward as the scoreline may suggest. It may well be a cliche in footballing circles, but there was certainly enough about the performance to give me hope despite the defeat. It’s a strange feeling really, as usually I [...]

Newcastle battled their way to a creditable draw against reigning Premier League champions Chelsea this afternoon – A result that means that we still haven’t lost against any London team this season. On the balance of play you could probably argue that Chelsea deserved to win the match, but that would take a lot of [...]

Is he? Or isn’t he? I have not written for quite a while on this ‘blog, so this post is just a gentle reintroduction from me without much substance, but I feel I can get away with it just this once to ease myself back into things. It gets worse because I’m about to do [...]

Newcastle played out a decent 1-1 draw away at Wolves this afternoon. An away point is always welcome, especially against a team that is likely to be a rival near the bottom of the table this season. Newcastle dominated most of the proceedings though, and will feel that perhaps they should have been travelling back [...]

The last in the series of our player reviews for the 09/10 season will take a look at our strikers and how they have done this season. We have already worked our way through the team starting with goalkeepers before moving onto have a look at our defence and midfield. Our strikers have been very [...]

It looks like Steven Taylor is set to be offered a new contract by Newcastle United during the summer in an effort to persuade the possible future captain that his future does lay at St James’ Park. Manager Chris Hughton will urge Mike Ashley to sit down with Taylor and thrash out a deal that [...]

It’s that time of the season where awards start getting dished out, both to recognise personal achievements and team achievements throughout the season. We have already had Kevin Nolan named as the Championship Player of the Year, but last night it was time to announce the PFA Championship Team of the Year. The PFA awards [...]

Football’s most risible muckraker, The Guardian’s North East football correspondent, Louise Taylor, has declared war on football supporters with computers who have the nerve to queer her own pitch; spreading specious tittle tattle and general nastiness about virtually anyone associated with Newcastle United football club. Obviously distressed by the competition, her latest piece of astoundingly [...]