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News has come in that it could be as long two or three months until first choice centre back, Steven Taylor, returns to the squad. Taylor sustained a sprain in his medial ligament during Newcastle United’s Championship draw with West Bromwich Albion, and is one of several members of the first team backline to sustain [...]

Chris Hughton has been talking about the issue which has been one of Newcastle United’s biggest bugbears in recent times, injuries. So far, with a few exeptions, Hughton has managed to largely buck the trend, despite playing a longer season in a supposedly more ‘physical’ league. However, despite some clever rotational policies and the use [...]

Newcastle United’s usually mild mannered supremo, Chris Hughton, has come out with some fighting talk in the run up to Toon’s home clash with Swansea City on Saturday. In the interview, he spoke of Swansea’s fine defensive record this season (second only to Hughton’s own), and vowed to go in with all guns blazing in [...]

Steven Taylor and Fabricio Coloccini face late tests to prove their fitness for Newcastle United’s game against Forest this weekend. Both players have been hit by hamstring injuries – Colocinni’s a few weeks ago and Taylor’s just recently – and Hughton has this to say about their chances of playing on the weekend: “Steven has [...]

Newcastle United’s Shola Ameobi is likely to return to first-team duty by early December according to Chris Hughton. Shola suffered a stress fracture of the foot in August but has already begun light training. Hughton said: “The good news with Shola is that he has no adverse reaction to the original injury and he’s started [...]