The Newcastle United Blog

One of the players we have liked this season, and think has done a reasonable job of adjusting to the Premiership, is Senegal and former Marseilles defender, Habib Beye.
He was one of the few players to play a decent game against Liverpool, and he had another solid game at Blackburn on Saturday, when he [...]

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News is leaking out today from both the Newcastle Evening Chronicle and the Shields Gazette, that Sam Allardyce had a meeting with three of his senior players last Tuesday morning.
The new being reported is that Sam told them he was going to sink or swim on the tactics he has used all his managerial life, [...]

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Manchester United players Wes Brown and Mikail Silvestre were two of Sam Allardyce’s preferred targets during the summer, but he was unable to get either one of them to leave the Manchester giants.
However, defender Wes Brown has today been linked with a January move to Newcastle United, after it has been revealed that he has [...]

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Sam Allardyce seems upbeat after the good performance at Blackburn on Saturday but he regrets Newcastle couldn’t put more of the seemingly easy chances away, in the second half.
The upcoming game against Arsenal will be really tough, but the Newcastle faithful can help big time on Wednesday night.

Sam Allardyce - regrets not scoring more [...]

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Alan Smith was included in the team on Saturday, but surprisingly replaced Mark Viduka up front.
In retrospect, it was clear why Sam wanted him in the team, because you can rely on Alan to give a committed performance, even when he’s not particularly playing well.

Alan Smith - we gave everything we had on Saturday

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Sam Allardyce talked about the game against Blackburn on Saturday this morning to the Newcastle Journal.
While the first half was a cagey one for both sides at Ewood Park on Saturday, once the second half got under way it was clear that both teams were going for the jugular.

Oba Martins - Newcastle’s leading scorer with [...]

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It seems like a perennial problem at Newcastle United - the injury problems we always seem to have at the club. Once again Sam is finding it difficult to pick a good defensive unit because of injuries.
Both Abdoulaye Faye and Stephen Carr were introduced again against Blackburn Rovers on Saturday, but both of them [...]

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Sam Allardyce has made what to us looks like a rather dangerous move in saying the players he brought in during the summer were second or third choices, That’s because the premiership players he really wanted had already been taken.
We know Big Sam really wanted Sylvain Distin and Tal Ben Haim, and maybe a [...]

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The Newcastle United and England central midfielder, Joey Barton, is to be tried in court in June of next year.
The charge against Joey is one of occasioning actual bodily harm on Ousmane Dabo, his former team mate at Manchester City football club, at the beginning of April this year.
But Joey Barton insists he has done [...]

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