Handling the Football Administration Behind the Scenes

Posted by: shearyadi · May 4, 2008 · Comment

Speaking about how many transfer kitty that the top four would spend in the summer is like a daydreaming story for most of us, an ordinary supporters, who have to work all day and all night to collect pennies just for a ticket in weekend to see our team playing.

These are coming the sunday newspapers and many of them circulating the old and new speculations about the premierships team summer transfers. From News Of …

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What Keegan Did to Michael Owen and His Future with Toon

Posted by: Clarky · March 24, 2008 · Comment

For those who have been loudly decrying KK’s tactical acumen (not necessarily on here) it seems to me that modifying MO’s role has been something of a masterstroke.

As several of us had been suggesting, if we had continued playing a supine 4-4-2 with Owen and Smith up front, we were going in only one direction. The present formation has allowed KK to get both Viduka and Martins involved, and importantly has got Owen more …

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I’d Love It If We Beat Rovers Today, Another Season Start?

Posted by: shearyadi · March 1, 2008 · Comment

Our first meeting with them at Ewood Park under the previous manager, United were lost 3-1 with Martins scoring for us on that day.

Today, Oba Martins is back for his first game under the Special K. Young defender, Peter Ramage is also on the way for a return to training next week after more than six months out with cruciate ligament damage.

Newcastle will still without Emre, Mark Viduka, Stephen Carr and Shay Given …

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Newcastle United vs Middlesbrough – Postmortem

Posted by: Clarky · February 3, 2008 · 4 Comments

Well, another two points down the toilet as things become ever more worrying. On the overall balance of play a draw was probably a fair result.

There were some signs of general improvement, particularly in the second half, but for me we still have problems in midfield where we were never really able to establish any degree of control, apart from a spell in the 2nd half during which we scored.

Once again, we failed …

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