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JOIN DAN'S LEAGUE ------------------------------

One of our readers, Dan13, has created a fantasy league on the official premiership website. If anyone wishes to join him go to this website.

http://fantasy.premierleague.com

Once you've signed up and picked your team, you can go to join the league under head to head, and you can join Dan13's league by entering this code - 219072-52479

TRANSFER RUMORS ------------------------------

It is now the crazy summer transfer season, and Newcastle have already been linked with about 189 players as of early July.

We had some experience of this last summer, and it's obvious that some reports we will publish will not be true, even when comments are issued from the actual players and agents.

What we will do during the summer is report every rumor that we see, but at the same time try to say how truthful they look to be - as best as we can, from a fan's viewpoint.

But it's very hard for us to sort out the wheat from the chaff, so we'll publish most of the stories, and as long as we take the reports with a pinch of salt and not get too serious about them, we should be OK.

We are bound to be falsely linked with many players this summer, this is Newcastle United after all.

At least we'll know a lot more about all the players we are linked with, if nothing else, because we'll make an extra effort to get as much information on each player as we can.

I had a pleasant surprise today, American Independence day, when one of readers, Uros, from Bled in Slovenia, sent me a new header for the blog - we think it looks great and many thanks to Uros.

Take a look at Uros' home - it looks terrific.

One thing that's really great about running a site like this, is we get to hear from Newcastle supporters from every part of the world. There's no doubt that Newcastle United is a popular team, even more so now that Kevin is back.

I have banners also from Phoon CK from Singapore, who has provided 2 of the last 3, and I'll try to see how I can use all 3 different banners in the future.

We thank our readers for helping us out so much on the blog over the last 14 months, believe me when I say it's appreciated greatly.

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IN:

Name:             Fee £M

Gutierrez          3.0?
Guthrie             2.0?

OUT:

Name              Fee £M

Ramage           Free
Carr                Free
Diatta              Free
Troisi              Free
Rozehnal         2.8
Emre*             4.0

* pending 

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Board of Directors


Owner          Mike Ashley
Life President Sir John Hall
Chairman       Chris Mort
Exec Director  Dennis Wise
Football
Vice President Tony Jimenez
Player
Recruitment 	


Management and Coaching


Technical      Jeff Vetere
Coordinator
Manager        Kevin Keegan
Assistant Mgr  Chris Hughton
Adviser        Arthur Cox
Coaches        T McDermott
Reserve Team   Adam Sadler
Goalkeepers    Paul Barron
Fitness        Adrian Lamb
               Craig Russell
Youth Academy  Richard Money
Manager
Youth Academy
Coaches        Joe Jordan
               Kenny Wharton
               Simon Tweddle
Physios        Derek Wright
               Kev Bell
Head Scout     P Montgomery
Scouts 	       C McMenemy
               Vic Halom
               Bobby Saxton
               Jack Chapman

KEVIN KEEGAN PHONE IN

Dr. Ed Harrison is a recently retired IBM Consulting Group Executive who now has time, lots of time, to write about his lifelong passion - Newcastle United Football Club.

Ed was born and bred in Newcastle Upon Tyne, and watched his first game at St. James’ Park in 1949 as a 4 year-old with his Mother and Father. Ed was told to look out for number 9 - Jackie Milburn - Wor Jackie.

In football terms Ed was a goalkeeper and played for Wharrier Street Primary School and Newcastle Minors (Newcastle Schoolboys Under-11), in 1956 and went on to play for Newcastle Schoolboys and Northumberland Schoolboys (Under 15) in 1959 and an England Schoolboys trial.

He was at Newcastle United for a couple of years from 1960 as an amateur, while still at school, and played with Bobby Moncur and David Craig, amongst others, for the Newcastle United Juniors side (Newcastle N’s in those days), during the relegation season of 1960-1961.

Ed attended Heaton Technical and Manor Park schools, and then went on to study at both King’s College, London (BSc Electrical Engineering) and Newcastle University (PhD Computer Science). He played for Newcastle Universities and England Universities from 1967 until 1970.

But a short couple of years after Ed joined IBM in 1970, he was shipped over to the USA, with his new wife Madeline, a beautiful local Newcastle lass.

Ed and Madeline live just outside Raleigh in North Carolina. Their twin sons Paul and Neil, and daughter Elaine, now all in their early 30s, live close by. Neil has carried on the family tradition, and is an avid Newcastle United fan.

WELCOME TO OUR NEW YOUNG PLAYERS

FABIO ZAMBLERA

TAMAS KADAR

BEN TOZER

WESLEY BAHENG

OLLE SODERBERG