Author Marcelimpo

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  Brace Yourself Wembley – Newcastle United Are Back!

  Over the past week #NUFC Twitter and social media in general has been bursting to the seams with chatter about tickets for the League Cup Final (I prefer to call it that as I can’t spell Carabao, let alone pronounce it!). It’s great to see United supporters delight at having secured a ticket and wanting to share the news with the world. I don’t accept the odd criticism I’ve seen that doing so is somehow “bragging” – but I can understand how some folks might […]

   
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  Sir Bobby’s Team

  An exciting new competition, Sir Bobby’s Team, is giving football fans the opportunity to choose the starting XI of a lifetime – and supporting the work of the Sir Bobby Robson Foundation, part of Newcastle Hospitals Charity, in the process. Sir Bobby worked with some of the world’s finest players during his long and distinguished football career. Now, supporters can choose from a shortlist of the very best of the best to create their own Sir Bobby Team. The choice of incredible players available for […]

   
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  Are Some Newcastle United Fans “Better” Than Others?

  OK, I admit it. I frequent Social Media quite a bit! And what I’m about to discuss below, covers what might be described as a “hot topic” that I’ve seen raised online from time to time. It’s also a subject you might just as easily overhear in a pub. It’s a topic that can be friendly patter between mates but which can quickly escalate into argument and cause quite a bit of upset. But, let’s open it up here and see if we can make […]

   
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  Three Days For Bobby Robson

  Every year, a group of friends from Sunniside, Whickham and further afield come together to raise money for the Sir Bobby Robson Foundation with a cycling challenge called Three Days for Bobby. This is their 10th fundraising ride, so they decided to make it extra special by cycling between two of Sir Bobby’s former clubs, St James’ Park, home of Newcastle United, and PSV Eindhoven in the Netherlands. Their 200 mile route includes Sir Bobby’s County Durham birthplace, Sacriston, before cycling to the coast to […]

   
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  Leeds United 0 Newcastle United 1 – Our Season Starts Here?

  Leeds United at Elland Road. As a (ahem) “slightly older fan” I can remember the great Leeds team under Don Revie – Sprake, Hunter, Bremner, Giles, Gray, Lorimer, etc a great side which I was lucky enough to watch regularly and which should really have won more. They were a “hard” team who took no prisoners even by the rougher standards of those days where tackling was still allowed – (compared with the beach ball football and choreographed diving we see nowadays) and it was a joy […]

   
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  NUFC Takeover: Let The Good Times Roll!

  Like loads of other United fans, I switched off from the outside world on Thursday and sat all day glued to Sky Sports News waiting for updates on the potential takeover of Newcastle United by Amanda Staveley’s consortium. Also like other fans after four long years of Wor Mandy’s fight to take over and so many past setbacks and let-downs in this particular story I was hoping and praying that this time it would be different. This time it would be good news. This time, […]

   
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  Run A Match In March For Sir Bobby Robson’s Charity

  Today (18th February) is Sir Bobby Robson’s birthday. He would have been 88 and, as Lady Elsie puts it, “incredibly proud” at everything his cancer charity has gone on to achieve. Thanks to fantastic, ongoing support from its fundraisers, the Sir Bobby Robson Foundation funds a range of cutting-edge cancer treatment and innovative cancer support services that directly benefit patients from across the North East and Cumbria. Now the Foundation has announced a new fundraising activity, Sir Bobby’s Football Run, to help support the work […]