Newcastle United – News Roundup – 13 August 2009.
Posted on August 13th, 2009 | 28 Comments |
Huddersfield are currently managed by Geordie Lee ‘Jigsaw’ Clark who played for us between 1990-1997 and 2005-2007, the latter period including time as first team coach and reserve team manager under Glen Roeder.
I don’t think it’s fair to once again mention the ‘Sad Mackem Bastards’ T-shirt Lee Clark wore to the 1999 FA Cup final whilst he was a Sunderland player, so I won’t.
According to The Chronicle, Mike Ashley and Barry Moat are both due at a dinner in aid of The Newcastle United Foundation at St James’s Park on Saturday, although they’re apparently forbidden to discuss anything to do with Moat’s alleged bid for the club (why?).
Les Ferdinand reckons that home games are our key to success in The Championship this season. He says:
“The Championship is certainly an exciting league.
“OK, it’s not where Newcastle want to be and everybody was devastated by relegation.
“But this league is all about momentum and if you keep on picking up points during what is often a Tuesday-Saturday-Tuesday fixture list, as long as you are in swinging distances of those play-off places come the final seven or eight games, you are still in with a real shout of finishing the season covered in glory.
“It’s certainly going to be intriguing but I think the home games will be the key to success for Newcastle this season.”
Shola has been telling The Telegraph that the players must remain focussed on their games regardless of the uncertainty about the club’s ownership:
“Whatever goes on outside, it will happen. Things will get sorted eventually, we just have to focus on what we have to do and that’s win games. It’s been a good start, not a great start, but there is something to build on and that is the pleasing thing.”
And that’s really all I can find today.
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The full Carling Cup draw is as follows:
West Brom v Rotherham
Norwich v Sunderland
Tranmere v Bolton
QPR v Accrington
Bristol City v Carlisle
Leyton Orient v Stoke
Port Vale v Sheffield Wednesday
Hull v Southend
Leeds v Watford
Cardiff v Bristol Rovers
Portsmouth v Hereford
Crystal Palace v Manchester City
Wolves v Swindon
Gillingham v Blackburn
Blackpool v Wigan
Southampton v Birmingham
Preston v Leicester
Newcastle v Huddersfield
West Ham v Millwall
Hartlepool v Burnley
Nottingham Forest v Middlesbrough
Reading v Barnsley
Swansea v Scunthorpe
Doncaster v Tottenham
Peterborough v Ipswich
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Anyone else see that thing on the news last night, about the police giving some Sunderland fans a smack or two? I tell you, I’ll never get bored of seeing that lot laying on the floor motionless.