Posts Tagged ‘Mike Ashley takes Newcastle United off the market.’

Here we go again – the next episode in the Toon soap opera begins.

Posted October 28th, 2009 by Hugh de Payen | 381 Comments

Mike Ashley has taken Newcastle United off the market after 5 months and appointed Chris Hughton as permanent manager until the end of the 2010/2011 season.
Emotions were running high when this was announced last night but I wanted to try and analyse the situation a little more objectively in the cold light of day.
It looked [...]

Finally an end to the Toon takeover farce.

Posted October 27th, 2009 by Hugh de Payen | 65 Comments

The following announcement was made on the Newcastle United site tonight:
NEWCASTLE United are delighted to announce that Chris Hughton has been named the permanent manager of the Club, his contract will run until the end of the 2010/11 season.
At the same time the Club has confirmed that it has been withdrawn from sale and is [...]

 
 

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