First game in charge for the Messiah as Newcastle will take on the Trotters and will try to do the double against them this season. United has won the first meeting at Reebok stadium on the opening day under Sam Allardyce.

King Kev will lead the United team without seven first team players. Geremi, Beye, Faye and Martins are all on their national team duty on the African Cup of Nations. Nicky Butt, Alan Smith and Emre all suspended. Emre shown a straight red card against Stoke on Wednesday’s FA Cup replay.

During their Premierships meeting at Gallowgate, Bolton only has one win last season, one draw in 2003-2004 season and lose six times in process.

Bolton side, who has been beaten 3-1 on first meeting at Reebok, will hand debuts to their latest defenders Matt Taylor and 26 years-old Icelandic Gretar Steinsson.

Alan Wiley will be referring Toon match for the second time this season after taking charge of 3-0 home defeat against Liverpool. Kick-off for today’s full house St. James’ Park fixture is 5.15PM.

Premier League meetings between Newcastle and Bolton at SJP:
2006/07: 1-2 Ameobi
2005/06: 3-1 Solano, Shearer, Ameobi
2004/05: 2-1 Bowyer, Dyer
2003/04: 0-0
2002/03: 1-0 Jenas
2001/02: 3-2 Shearer 2, Bellamy
1997/98: 2-1 Barnes, Ketsbaia
1995/96: 2-1 Kitson, Beardsley

I’m expecting some fun tonight, OK Stoke will be big and direct – brilliant, there is no way we’ll cope with this very brainy tactic so we’ll have to counter it. We have no players apart from my team. This team can only play one way – attack.

I honestly can not see any other way for us but to go 100% at them. Go at them with every damn thing we’ve got. Width, pace, passing, dribbling, hold up play, clinical finishing – we have all of this in our locker.

Put it another way, excluding Baye and Faye, it could be argued that this is our best eleven! In fact excluding these two I think this is our best eleven – oh how BFFSA would mock. Maybe someone could put an argument for Martins and I’d have sympathy with this.

Butt out, Smith out – this has got to be good, both are in terrible form or is it that they are just crap? Playing a big fellow with Owen this is good. Two central midfielders given the instruction to be free and to look forward - excellent!

There is no point in babying a hopeless defence, lets just for once use better players as the team talk and tell them, enjoy it, it’s a lovely mild winter evening and being a professional footballer is the perfect life. Forget about yesterday, tomorrow will take care of itself.

I think if we click into a gear we will murder these feckers. Howay the lads!!!!

Newcastle United Team Lineup:

Harper (Given: Dropped)

Carr(it breaks my heart but so be it) Taylor(we’re gonna need this lad tonight), (Capaca, Rozy – I’m not arsed either way, who’s mincing do you prefer, Boy George or Julian Clary?), Enrique ( hmmm, I’m 90% sure he’s not up to it but let’s hope he has a good game)

Milner(right), Emre(playing his natural game), N’Zogbia(central), Duff(left)

Viduka(bit fat and slow), Owen(his heads gone because he’s at a joke club for me)

Newcastle may have been slump recently in Premier League, have had three defeats in a row but to be honest and beyond my wildest dream, I can’t see how they will bring the nightmare to us.

If they in fact capable to manage the win on Sunday, it will be mostly because the lads can not bring out their best or bad luck. If United team was in the form of their real strength, Stoke City is nothing. Sam Allardyce will also doesn’t need any sympathy from Stoke City before their meeting at the Britannia Stadium on Sunday.

Times online’s reporter, James Ducker, was being silly if he gave an illustration from Newcastle’s past three Premier League games to pile the pressure on Allardyce, compares to Stoke City who are unbeaten in ten matches since November 10.

Potters boss Tony Pulis, who manage the team since 2006, confident that they will be able to handle the Sunday’s occasion with his combined Stoke’s youth and experience players. His team this season has plenty of former top-flight players in his ranks, to name some are Ryan Shawcross (loan from Manchester United), Rory Delap (ex-Derby, Southampton, Sunderland), Liam Lawrence (ex-Sunderland), Richard Cresswell (ex-Leeds) and Ricardo Fuller (ex-Portsmouth).

Big Sam is already aware of the Cup romance. With his Bolton team, Allardyce is successful to bring nightmares to other Premier League Big Clubs, and now with United he didn’t see any reason why he should have that nightmare.

He also will make the Cup tie as his turning point to bring the confidence back to United squad after that three Premier League defeats.

With Manchester United fixture to follow after the Britannia clash, Sam Allardyce have no other choice than have to win the Britt’s match, or he will see his time at St. James’ Park is no longer can be saved.