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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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Edmilson First Newcastle Signing in January

November 13th, 2007 · 68 Comments

We expect one of the new arrivals in January to Newcastle to be Edmilson, the Brazilian International, who has said for many months now that when his contract expires in June he will not be signing a new contract at Barcelona.
The Brazilian international center-back or defensive midfielder moved to Barcelona in 2004, and helped the [...]

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Faye Out 3 Weeks - Carr and Given Back

November 13th, 2007 · 17 Comments

Abdoulaye Faye played a great game for Newcastle in the derby on Saturday but limped out of the game, at the Stadium of Light, with a hamstring injury.
It has taken a couple of days for the injury to settle down, and the estimate now is that he could be out up to three weeks.

Abdoulaye Faye [...]

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Sam Appoints Adam Sadler Reserve Team Manager

November 13th, 2007 · 8 Comments

Newcastle United announced today on their web-site that they have appointed Adam Sadler as their new reserve-team manager.
The young 28-year-old will replace fellow Geordie Lee Clark, who joined Glenn Roeder as assistant manager at Norwich City recently.
Newcastle have said that Adam will work closely with Terry McDermott at Newcastle’s training ground.

Adam Sadler - obviously has [...]

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Funny Football Quotes and Beautiful Women

November 13th, 2007 · 4 Comments

Who’s this beautiful Canadian actress - born in Widness, England - a Lancashire Lass

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Tags: FootBall Quotes · Newcastle News

Viduka - Vital Player for Newcastle this Season

November 13th, 2007 · 11 Comments

It looks like our Australian striker Mark Viduka is ready to put his fitness problems behind him, and rediscover the scoring touch which saw him score three good goals in his first five starts for Newcastle.
Mark Viduka has been injury prone most of his career, and the striker has been restricted to just seven games [...]

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Ashley Becoming Loved by Newcastle Fans

November 13th, 2007 · 29 Comments

We were told he was a recluse who didn’t like any publicity and that he shunned the limelight. Apparently when Mike Ashley bought Newcastle United in June of last year he had had only one photograph that the press could use for him when the take that Mike wants to see.
Because of some rules at [...]

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Allardyce Let Down By Barton

November 13th, 2007 · 33 Comments

Newcastle midfielder Joey Barton has finally talked about the incident with Sunderland’s Dickson Etuhu and insists there was no malice in his challenge during Newcastle’s derby draw with Sunderland.
Try telling that to the millions of TV viewers who saw the incident.
Joey has to realize that because of his past actions, there is zero tolerance for [...]

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Newcastle Start No Better Than Last Two Seasons

November 13th, 2007 · 39 Comments

Big Sam keeps saying that we are 9 points better off than at the same time last season, but as you’ll see - this is hardly an apples to apples comparison Sam is making.
While it’s true that we did have only 9 points from our first 12 league games, they were hardly against the same [...]

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Sam - We Need Every Point We Can Get

November 13th, 2007 · 9 Comments

Sam Allardyce has challenged his Newcastle players go on an unbeaten run, with the hard earned 1-1 draw against Sunderland on Saturday, the first game of an unbeaten run.
Before Saturday, Newcastle had lost two successive games and had played very poorly against both Reading away, and then against Pompey at home, in their first home [...]

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Joey Barton Needs to Be So Careful

November 13th, 2007 · 10 Comments

It was reported today that the Football Association will take no further action on the Joey Barton clash with Sunderland’s Dickson Etuhu just before half time, in Saturday’s 1-1 draw at the Stadium of Light.
Barton clashed with Etuhu with his studs high, and the pair clashed afterwards, but the incident was not seen by referee [...]

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