The Newcastle United Blog

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

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Barton Completely Committed to Newcastle

October 9th, 2007 · 36 Comments

Joey Barton is making excellent progress from his metatarsal injury, and he played 60 minutes for the reserves last night, although he didn’t want to come off, because he felt so good.
Looks like he will be competing for a place in Newcastle’s team for the Tottenham game on 22nd October, a must win game for [...]

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Abdoulaye Faye – Delighted to Be At Newcastle

October 9th, 2007 · 10 Comments

A great interview in the Journal this morning with Abdoulaye Faye, who had a first class game for Newcastle on Saturday, when he partnered Claudio Cacapa at the heart of the Newcastle defense.
With Steven Taylor and David Rozehnal on the sidelines there is plenty of competition for the central defense positions at the moment in [...]

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Should Owen Play Both Games for England?

October 9th, 2007 · 38 Comments

As we all know Sam Allardyce is concerned about the prospect of Steve McClaren fielding Michael Owen in both England’s European Championship qualifying matches against Estonia at Wembley on Saturday and Russia in Moscow four days later.
Sam thinks it’s a risk to ask Michael to play in crucial games after just undergoing surgery a week [...]

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Gateshead Lose First League Game Since March

October 9th, 2007 · 3 Comments

Gateshead lost their first league game since last March when they went down 2-1 to lowly placed Ilkeston Town at the International Stadium on Saturday.
To say Gateshead should have wrapped this one up is an understatement, but they missed too many of their chances.
Gateshead have now scored just 4 goals in their last 4 games, [...]

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Joey Barton Almost There

October 9th, 2007 · 6 Comments

Joey Barton scored for the reserves as Newcastle United beat Wigan Athletic 3-1 at Kingston Park last night.
Joey played a full 60 minutes and this follows his first half outing last Tuesday night in our 2-2 draw with Man City reserves.
Barton scored the first goal after 19 minutes after a Jonny Godsmark cross was not [...]

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