Newcastle United looking extremely comfortable against Arsenal

Posted by: Gallowgate Jim · November 8, 2010 · Comment

Last weekends result was magnificent and obviously had added importance for the simple fact that the alternative of losing would have been unbearable. But as others have said this was by far the better result.

Joey Barton keeping the ball away from Arsenal’s Jack Wilshere

After a spirited comeback against Wigan at home, we’ve won 3 premiership games in a row. Simply fantastic. This run shows just how important a point like that at home can be, even though at the time we were questioning …

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Joey Barton for England

Posted by: shearyadi · November 4, 2010 · Comment

Just a few months ago, Joey Barton’s claims that he deserved to add to his one international cap were laughed off by many, including some Newcastle United fans.

Joey “Bart” Barton waves to the Toon Army during the Sunderland match

However, just ten games into the season Barton’s ambition, although still clearly some way off, appears far more realistic. The midfielder has been ever present in the league this season and the midfielder has rewarded the Newcastle manager’s faith with a series of stellar performances in a …

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Huge deserved credits to wor Barton today against Wolves players

Posted by: shearyadi · August 28, 2010 · Comment

This is the first magpies zone post of the new Newcastle United premierships season and what makes me write again is after I saw a new Barton playing before my eyes (well infront of television actually).

And for this new post, I want to give him huge deserved credits for keeping his concentration all the way up until the very end of the game before finally being booked at the death of injury time.

The …

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First win for Toon under JFK, with Barton got a good reception

Posted by: Clarky · October 28, 2008 · 2 Comments

Well, we all acknowledged this was a ‘must-win’ game, a proverbial ‘six-pointer’ (in October fcs), and we secured the points. That’s the positive stuff. Other than that I thought we were generally shambolic, and the 2nd half in particular was sheer agony to watch.

The Baggies had a dodgy defence and going forward couldn’t hit a cow’s @rse with a bango. Despite that they passed us to death in midfield, particularly 2nd half, where they …

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