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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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  The Tottenham Inquest

  There is still clearly a huge amount of fragility in the Newcastle United squad. Tripper brought a calmness to the team which Burn took over when Trippier got injured. But Burn at Tottenham was abysmal and no one else stepped up in that 2nd half to calm everyone down and get a grip on the game, so it was just a return to the dark days of a team without a leader or a plan, or anyone to get hold of the game when it […]

   
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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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  Why Are Manchester United Judged Differently To Newcastle United?

  So this debacle at Man Utd, the uproar around a team that looks devoid of direction, a team looking like they haven’t been coached. Ex-professionals like Graham Souness saying that at the very least Ole Solskjær needs to bring in some new coaches as whatever they are doing isn’t working. Jamie Carragher saying Ole isn’t the man for the job. This is a team that would have gone 4th with a win against Liverpool. Meanwhile, there’s Newcastle United – 7 wins in 39 games in […]

   
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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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  “A Hollow And Empty Football Club” Alan Shearer’s Verdict On United

  Well, United’s game against Man U yesterday came and went. The result was pretty much what most United fans had feared, but the 4-1 scoreline flattered Man U, mainly down to the untypical mistakes of our 3rd choice goalie Freddie Woodman. Our overall performance – in the first half in particular – was probably better than we expected. The midfield worked well as a unit with Almiron tirelessly covering every blade of grass and Longstaff getting back to his best showing why he has to […]

   
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  Newcastle United v West Ham United Reaction

  Well, yesterday saw United play West Ham in our first game of the 21/22 season. The return of the crowds to football which somehow is allowed under the Eton Mess’s strange and illogical “road map” meant that United fans could once again fill St James’ Park to watch the Toon. And a crowd of 50,673 duly turned up to witness the unfolding events. As usual, opinions vary amongst our fans about how this season will go and where we will finish up in the EPL […]