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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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Allardyce - Pressure on Managers Enormous

October 20th, 2007 · 9 Comments

Sam Allardyce believes the job of a manager in the Football league these days is not only short but extremely stressful.
That’s so true especially in the Premier League because there is just so much money to be won by clubs and the pressure on the managers to get results is enormous. No more so than [...]

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Big Sam Delighted With Injury Status

October 20th, 2007 · 15 Comments

While we don’t want to tempt fate we think our injury situation is improving nicely at the club.
We have just four out injured and two of them, Ameobi and Viduka are touch and go for the Monday night game.
Ramage and Duff are longer term injuries with Damien due back in training in 2 weeks.

Big Sam [...]

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James Milner - Needs More Goals for Newcastle

October 20th, 2007 · 4 Comments

James Milner has been talking to the Shields Gazette today and Miles Starforth, as usual has another good interview with the Newcastle player.
James is looking forward to playing on Monday evening, after getting his first goal of the season for the England Under-21 side against Ireland last week.
To be a better player, James needs to [...]

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Funny Football Quotes and Beautiful Woman

October 20th, 2007 · 8 Comments

Who is this beautiful actress - born in Paris of a Polish mother and a French father

Funny Football Quotes
Here’s some funny quotes that will help lighten up the day -
“Without being too harsh on David Beckham, he cost us the match.”
- Ian Wright

“I never comment on referees and I’m [...]

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Sam Up-Beat on Owen and Martins Up-Front

October 20th, 2007 · 5 Comments

SAM Allardyce is confident Michael Owen and Obafemi Martins can make a productive partnership together and he is preparing the team to adjust Newcastle’s tactics to help play to the two exciting players’ undoubted strengths.
The two have started just two games together – against Reading and Blackburn –and have never started under Big Sam.

Oba [...]

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Tags: Michael Owen · Newcastle News · Obafemi Martins · Players

Berbatov’s Big Hero - Alan Shearer

October 20th, 2007 · 17 Comments

The Sun has a great article out today on Spurs great striker Dimitar Berbatov who it turns out grew up worshiping Alan Shearer — and slept in the No 9 Newcastle shirt.
Berbatov was given the number 9 Newcastle United shirt for his 18th birthday and ended up sleeping in it.
Apparently that’s why he chose the [...]

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Big Sam Supports Steve

October 20th, 2007 · 3 Comments

Manager Sam Allardyce has been talking about the England manager job and also the Newcastle manager job to the Journal this morning.
Sam says the Newcastle job makes him tingle sometimes about what he might be able to achieve at the Tyneside club.
Let’s take a look at what Big Sam has been saying.

Sam Allardyce - sticking [...]

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Tags: England News · Newcastle News