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News, Views and Comment On Newcastle United Football Club By Ed Harrison, A Proud Geordie And Lifelong Fan

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Owen: Clean Bill of Health From Dr. Muschaweck

October 1st, 2007 · 16 Comments

Sky Sports has held an interview with the famous German hernia surgeon Dr Ulrike Muschaweck about the procedures she carried out on Michael Owen.
She has worked some wonders again, although it seems like all the ballyhoo about Michael’s injury didn’t amount to much in the end.
We found out on Saturday there was minimal damage [...]

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Tags: England News · Michael Owen · Newcastle News

Newcastle’s Two Defensive Lapses Deadly

October 1st, 2007 · 7 Comments

Two lapses in concentration cost us dearly on Saturday, the game was as easy to sum up as that.
We should never have allowed the diagonal ball to go all the way to Petrov for the first goal, and it seems City caught us not fully awake for the second goal just after the break. Taylor [...]

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Tags: James Milner · Newcastle News · Players

Newcastle Seem Slow and Lack Sufficient Skill

October 1st, 2007 · 10 Comments

Sam Allardyce Newcastle side were torn apart for the second time in a week by their Manchester hosts in the second half on Saturday.
It’s getting to be a bit painful to watch as Newcastle’s midfield and defense don’t seem to have the pace or the skill to deal with fast-flowing technically good sides like Arsenal [...]

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Tags: Habib Beye · Newcastle News · Players

Four Funny Football Quotes For Today

October 1st, 2007 · 4 Comments

Manager and skipper - which funny quote are they laughing at?
On this spot every day we’ll include the four football quotes - and also have a question of the day. We’ll post the question on our Newcastle United Forum or we’ll highlight an existing topic that one of our readers has already posted [...]

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Tags: FootBall Quotes

Newcastle’s Oba Martins On Path To Greatness

October 1st, 2007 · 24 Comments

Before we go any further we have to tell one on ourselves, so you understand where we are coming from for this article.
We are great fans of Oba Martins and just love the guy. We also believe in the years to come he can even emulate the great things our very own Michael Owen has [...]

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Tags: Newcastle News · Obafemi Martins · Players

Newcastle After 19 year-old French Whiz Kid

October 1st, 2007 · 7 Comments

The rumors are starting to grow again about the players Newcastle may be after in January, but it’s a little different this time in that we are being linked with youngsters whose best years are still ahead of them. We are going to cover these even if they turn out to be false, because it [...]

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Tags: Transfer News and Rumours

How Newcastle Fans Can Help Gateshead FC

October 1st, 2007 · 10 Comments

As we all know Gateshead used to be a Football League side in the old 4th Division.
They were voted out of the league in 1960 as part of the old voting system. I remember that well and was really disappointed at the time as a teenager.
Well Gateshead are on the way back and have a [...]

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Tags: Other News

Update on Newcastle United Blog Stats

October 1st, 2007 · 3 Comments

After our game on Saturday we thought we had still got off to a good start this season.
Though we are obviously disappointed with two successive away defeats, we have to keep the faith and it’s only two games after all.
But we did look at the stats and we are doing better than last year and [...]

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Tags: Site News

Don’t Rush Michael Owen Back Again

October 1st, 2007 · 1 Comment

As we reported on Saturday Michael Owen had two successful procedures performed at the Dr Ulrike Muschaweck’s renowned Munich Hernia Center, repairing a torn abductor muscle and treating a sportsman’s hernia.
Ulrike Muschaweck’s “Minimal Repair Technique” allows patients to walk and use weights and train within even two days if all is well.
It looks like in [...]

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Tags: Michael Owen · Newcastle News · Players