The Newcastle United Blog

Seems that Big Sam is starting to appreciate just how good a player Emre can be for Newcastle United this season.
Even after playing two games for Turkey during the international break, and being extremely disappointed that his country suffered a 1-0 home defeat to rivals Greece, Sam still decided to start Emre last night against [...]

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Who’s this beautiful actress - born in Calgary, Alberta Canada and appears in the series 24

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Abdoulaye Faye and Claudio Cacapa have been little short of a revelation in these last two home games and they have played excellently in the heart of the Newcastle defense.
They have to be good, because they are keeping David Rozehnal and Steven Taylor out of the team, both of whom are also very good central [...]

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Newcastle boss Sam Allardyce was so pleased at the reception his first signing ever for Newcastle - Joey Barton - received on his first appearance at St James’ Park last night.
As we all know Joey has been out with a metatarsal injury since July 21st and it was his first competitive appearance for the Magpies. [...]

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Newcastle have made a good start to the season and now have 17 points from their first 9 starts.
However, Big Sam is still hoping to get to 20 points for the first 10 games after Newcastle visit Reading on Saturday.
When Sam was appointed in May, lots of people were discussing the type of football Sam [...]

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Newcastle 3 Tottenham 1
22nd October, 2007 St. James Park, Newcastle. Attendance: 51,411

Newcastle Tottenham Highlights.

You need to wait a few seconds but these are around 6 minutes of highlights from the game and commentators discussing the game, mainly from a Spurs perspective.
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Newcastle 3 Tottenham 1
22nd October, 2007  St. James Park,  Newcastle.   Attendance: 51,411 
Oba Martin’s Goal
Claudio Cacapa’s Goal
James Milner’s Goal
Sorry Spurs fans - don’t have Robbie Keane’s goal yet.
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James Milner and Oba Martins, two of our three goalscorers last night against Tottenham, were interviewed on Setanta Sports literally just minutes after the game ended last night.
They had obviously been hustled quickly up to the interview room, and were still sweating profusely from their efforts on the night.
Let’s see what the two youngsters had [...]

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Claudio Cacapa is an extremely accomplished football player.
That is probably a huge understatement as Newcastle fans start to realize just what a class act Big Sam has brought into the club.
Brazilian Claudio arrived at Newcastle United in the summer after a full six years at Olympique Lyonnais, where he collected five league titles and was [...]

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We saw both sides of the management merry go round last night, when watching the Newcastle Tottenham game.
On the one hand we had Newcastle’s Sam Allardyce, having rebuilt the Magpies squad during the summer he had 7 of his 9 recruits playing some part in last night’s convincing win over a sad looking Tottenham side. [...]

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Sam Allardyce has completely overhauled the Newcastle club since he took the reigns in the middle May.
Since then of course Mike Ashley has not only bought the club, but become its number one fan, and can bee seen at every home game and now most away fixtures, since he has tasted the passion that is [...]

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Sam Allardyce was delighted with his team’s good form against Tottenham last night, especially in the second half.
This is the best start at home Newcastle have made in 10 seasons but it’s not the same story on the road.
Sam now wants to fix that and there’s no better place to start than at Reading on [...]

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Sam spoke to nufc.co.uk after the game and sang the praises of Jose Enrique, who had another solid game for Newcastle and it was his 50 yard lofted through ball to Martins, that was directly responsible for the vital first goal.
Enrique is looking a better player with every game and if there’s a better left [...]

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