London calling....Newcastle head off to North London this weekend for another Sunday lunchtime kick-off, and the travelling fans will be hoping for a repeat of what happened in our last Sunday lunchtime where we smashed Sunderland 5-1.
Realistically, that isn’t going to happen, but we can always hope, eh?
The task couldn’t be tougher as Newcastle face an Arsenal side that has been looking rather impressive, even by their own high standards, in the league this season. That combined with the fact that we never really get anything from The Emirates will probably ensure that we are tasting defeat come around 4pm tomorrow afternoon.
Moving on to team news, and as ever we start with our beloved Newcastle United.
Sol Campbell will have to wait until the last minute to find out whether or not he makes the matchday squad. Sol has trained all week but Chris Hughton will have to decide if Campbell is fit enough to take a space in the 18-man squad for the trip to his former club. (more…)
Hughton ponders his next move.The search rolls on for Chris Hughton as he looks to hire an assistant to fill the roll that Colin Calderwood left.
Brian Kerr was a name that had been thrown around, but both Hughton and Kerr, who is currently managing the Faroe Islands, have ruled out that rumour. Another name that was being mentioned was Kevin Sheedy, but Hughton has said today that there is no basis in that rumour either.
Hughton missed out on his first-choice when Steve Clarke turned the opportunity to return to Tyneside, and it seems that the process of finding a replacement for Calderwood is taking longer than anticipated. It’s a situation that needs to be resolved soon though as Hughton can’t keep doing everything on his own.
“There’s no truth to the speculation that Brian Kerr will be coming to the club as my assistant,” replied Hughton when asked by The Chronicle about the rumours of Brian Kerr being appointed as his sidekick. (more…)
Tiote - Key to Newcastle this weekend?Let me introduce you to yet another nufcblog.org feature, well I hope it will become a feature anyway.
I’ve been thinking about the weekend trip to Arsenal, and just who Newcastle will need to try to keep quiet if we are to walk away from The Emirates with any points, or indeed if we are to walk away without being thumped, which against Arsenal is always a possibility.
So I thought of having an article that will highlight the key areas that I think Newcastle will need to control if we are to do well on Sunday lunch-time. This isn’t a match preview, that will come later on tonight, or perhaps tomorrow morning when I can get my grubby little hands on all the team-news. Instead this is a few key personal battles that I feel that the players in the black and white shirts will need to win if the odds, which are stacked against us anyway, are to be tipped in our favour. (more…)
Cheer up Stevie Bruce.....Pancake face Steve Bruce has slammed the way that Newcastle conducted themselves after the 5-1 mauling of Sunderland last weekend.
Bruce claims that there was no need for Newcastle to play ‘Daydream Believer’, a 1967 hit by The Monkees, which prompted the home fans to serenade Sunderland with a much cruder version aimed at Steve Bruce at the final whistle and says that such a move was “typical of our etiquette”.
I’ll get onto Sunderland’s etiquette later on, but at the minute it is Bruce who is being the pantomime dame and not letting things drop. The fact he is sounding off suggests that he is hurting, but the classy move would be to suffer in silence. I’m pretty sure that the Sunderland fans will just want to forget about the match, until January at least, and will want to try to move on and recover from this hammering.
So they could do without bitter Bruce creating a fuss about it really and heaping yet more attention on them. Talking to The Express, Bruce had this to say. (more…)
The scene in a typical Mackem home.Most of us are still floating around on cloud nine after the demolition derby last Sunday, and with good reason aswell as it’s always nice to completely batter your local rivals.
So how can we continue the fun? Simple, let’s have a laugh at their misery.
A lot of you are aware that I visit quite a few ‘blogs, fanzines and forums belonging to other teams, and most of the time I go on there with the sole purpose of winding people up. It works a treat, and I was really looking forward to going onto the Sunderland sites, the ones that I’m not banned from, and rubbing a bit more salt into the wounds of their fans. It turns out that I didn’t have to do anything except read their own self-pitying remarks, some of which I have collated into this article for you.
First up I visted Sunderland fanzine, ‘A Love Supreme’. This is where Louise Taylor made her name before being picked up, for some bizarre reason, by The Guardian. Interestingly, if you haven’t read the match report from The Guardian, penned by Louise Taylor herself, you can do so here. It’s quite possibly the shortest match report ever recorded, especially for a match that contained six goals, a sending off and a penalty. I wonder why… (more…)
