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  Excellent Newcastle United Defence Enough To See Off Chelsea

  Like many other Newcastle United fans, I woke up this morning with a sore head, a croaky voice and a big smile on my face! Beating Chelsea 1-0 at the cathedral on the hill yesterday was an excellent result, ranking alongside our earlier wins against Tottenham and Manchester United, and the draw we earned with Manchester City. The return of Jamaal Lascelles to the centre of defence was huge. The mainstay of Rafa’s back five, he adds a commanding presence as well as the leadership […]

   
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  Steph Houghton Follows In Alan Shearer’s Footsteps

  England legend, Steph Houghton, is being honoured next month for her role in football development, her contribution to charities and for inspiring more girls and women to take up the game. Steph will receive the North East Football Writers’ Association’s Annual Awards Personality of the Year trophy, which is given in association with the Sir Bobby Robson Foundation to recognise someone who uses their position in football to benefit the wider community. The 31-year-old Manchester City captain, described by The Football Association as, “a role […]

   
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  Angry Newcastle United Fans Reaction To Latest Defeat

  This article shares some of the reaction we have had on The UTD111 Forum to the latest dismal show against Leicester. This is the edited version – with all the swear words taken out and it’s still not pretty folks, but hard to argue with the strong views expressed. “Another brilliant performance. 11 strangers playing hoof ball, with an absolute idiot in defence who didn’t think 3 gifted goals against Manure was enough over the Christmas period, so thought he would hand out a couple […]

   
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  Does A Sell-Out Crowd Actually Help Newcastle Players?

  Three defeats on the trot and the inquisitions, and blame-game debates have started to ramp up amongst disgruntled Newcastle United fans. All of the usual grumbles never really went away – a potent mix of the faults of the owner, the manager and the playing staff, to name but three key areas! Most of us have never been particularly content with the owner, who is seen by many as using the club as an advertising clothes horse for his sports clothing business, rather than having […]

   
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  Why Couldn’t We Beat Burnley?

  As you might gather from the title, I’ve been asking myself that particular question ever since the final whistle blew on yesterday’s disappointing game at Burnley. After all, we were up against a team that had lost three games on the trot, with Tottenham in particular sticking five goals past their defence. And before anybody says “yeah, but they played Totts and Man City in two of those games”, so what? Totts were easy meat at St James’ Park and we drew with City! Clearly, […]

   
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  Reaction: Newcastle United Free Season Tickets

  Yesterday, Newcastle United made around 10,000 “half” extra season tickets available to existing season ticket holders on a first come, first served basis. Cue an online scramble by thousands of fans looking to take advantage of this early christmas present. The tickets were quickly snapped up and enable the new holders to watch every home game remaining this season, from Everton on 28th December for nothing. The decision to offer the free tickets seems to have come following a relatively poor (for United, anyway) crowd […]

   
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  Fan Reaction to Newcastle United 2 Bournemouth 1

  A great result for United yesterday which saw us shoot up the Premier League to the dizzy heights of 11th! Over on the UTD111 Forum, we got some interesting reaction to this result from our regular contributors- here’s some of them below! If you’d like to add your own opinions, feel free to let rip in the comments box below this article. Eeeeen: “A good result – probably our first points this season against opposition who were playing about as well as they are able. […]

   
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  “Clueless On Tyneside” – Reaction To Newcastle United v Wolverhampton Wanderers

  Newcastle United 1 Wolverhampton Wanderers 1 Another inept tactical display where you didn’t know what the team was trying to do, other than get the ball to Allan Saint-Maximin and hope that he can somehow trick his way into the box and get a shot off. I watched the game with my Dad, and I have read half time reports and listened to the manager, but we both thought that the first half was just a case of Wolves not turning up, rather than us […]

   
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  Prediction: Newcastle United Crowds Will Fall Even Further

  Following on from John Joseph’s article yesterday I’d like to add some views on the falling crowd situation at St James’ Park. Its the usual cycle: * Ashley stays for the money * A section of our fans believe staying away will help force a sale * A section of our fans don’t believe staying away will change anything The only consistent factors here are Ashley still owning the club and the same fans turning up to watch the same rubbish every week. The appointment […]