Location: Anfield Early prospects: Familiar After consigning the woes of Boxing Day travels to history, Newcastle take to the road again this Friday to face another traditionally miserable fixture – facing Kenny Dalglish’s shoestring budget Liverpool side at Anfield.
New Newcastle vs Man Utd: Tactical Preview
Location: St James’ Early prospects: Difficult Newcastle return to St James’ for their first game of 2012, facing the daunting prospect of looking for a win against an opposition we have not beaten for over 10 years – Manchester United.
NUFC 2012-2013 Season Preview
On 18th of August 2012, Newcastle United kick-off their 19th Premier League campaign, the recent but brief visit to the Championship now seeming a very distant memory. Far from the highly selective ‘second season syndrome’, NUFC’s campaign last time out was our most successful , and arguably exciting, in years – the club visibly growing…
Soviet spies: Intel on Metalist Kharkiv
Even at the height of summer, no-one ever goes to Kharkiv for the scenery. Cossack outpost-cum-provincial Russian town-cum-Soviet centre of science, Ukraine’s second city – forty kilometres south of Russia but almost five hundred east of Kiev – was the inaugural capital of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, the birthplace of the T-34 tank and…
Taking a Legend
You’d be forgiven for thinking Newcastle United’s only faux pas with the loan market was association with those adorable exploiters of the poor, Wonga. Not so. In the same way our region’s most vulnerable are being stitched up by these profiteering (legal) loan sharks, Newcastle United’s recent activity in the other loan market (you know,…
I see the World in one dimension
When Papiss Cisse came on as a half time substitute away to Sunderland at the weekend, the decision made some sense – in theory, anyway. Losing 0-1, not creating many openings, get a striker on to increase our options. Yet did any of you genuinely look at Cisse and think he was a likely scorer?…
Thats Entertainment
So, international weekend again. After the late but entertaining scramble to qualify, the English national football team take a form of precedence and spend the forthcoming long weekend entertaining their cohorts of the upcoming Brazil World cup.
The Dreaded January Window
When I was about eight years old I fell over playing football in the street (for the record, we really were using jumpers for goalposts. Marvellous. Isn’t it?). Now, all these years later, I can remind myself of that moment whenever I want simply by looking at the big scar on my kneecap. I can…
Accept yourself
As Newcastle enters the Christmas period a strange calm has lowered over Tyneside. Registering four consecutive wins would typically arouse the kind of giddy excitement and anticipation expected only for Christmas day itself. But while various paper based outlets are poking thoughts of another European campaign, the caution amongst supporters is more palpable.