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Jun 29, 2020
2 min

Newcastle United 0-2 Man City: Stat Review

Manchester City overcame Newcastle United in the FA Cup quarter-final on Sunday but it could have been very different as Man City were helped by an astonishing Dwight Gayle miss just a moment before doubling their lead in the second half. The defeat means that we are still awaiting our first earned trip to the new Wembley having not reached the semi-finals since 2005. Pep Guardiola's side dominated the first half and will feel they should have scored more than their solitary

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Head to Head records: Home v Aston Villa

Rob Spereall (@rob_spereall)

Jun 24, 2020
3 min

Head to Head records: Home v Aston Villa

Back to back wins have all but secured Premier League football for another year on Tyneside. The Magpies are now 11 points clear of the relegation zone with eight games remaining and sit just two points below the top half. Considering the Premier League is without Middlesbrough and Sunderland this season, Aston Villa is arguably the club's biggest rivals in the Premier League following their unprovoked taunting of Newcastle fans in 2009 and 2016. However, on a positive note,

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Laurence Taylor (@laurence_1999)

Jun 17, 2020
21 min

My best and worst everything NUFC

Another article inspired by Kyle, I thought I'd talk about my favourite and least favourite things in my time following Newcastle United and I will be keeping it to from my first Toon game in January 2009. Favourite game - 1-0 v Anzhi Makhachkala (14/03/2013) I thought I'd start with my favourite Magpies game and for this one, I'm going to go with the 1-0 win over Anzhi Makhachkala in the Europa League in March 2013. With the score 0-0 in Russia a week earlier, it had been a

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Head to Head Records: Home v Sheffield United

Rob Spereall (@rob_spereall)

Jun 17, 2020
3 min

Head to Head Records: Home v Sheffield United

FOOTBALL IS BACK! Not quite as we know it but it is back! We begin our restart to the season against Sheffield United at St. James' Park that was going to take place before the FA suspended the football calendar the day before this match was due to take place. Despite being in the bottom half of the table, we currently sit a safe eight points clear of the relegation zone with nine games remaining. But anyway, back to what this article is really all about, analysing our head t

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Josh Moir @JoshuaaMoirr

Jun 3, 2020
4 min

Steve Bruce's Newcastle

Steve Bruce, who took over from Rafa Benitez after his contract was run down, has lead Newcastle to the quarter-final of the FA Cup and currently sit 13th in the League, only 5 points away from guaranteed safety. Although he is on course to having a successful first season as Newcastle head coach, he has had a difficult time winning over the fans: His tactics has come under scrutiny and the fact his last Premier League job was Hull City which resulted in relegation, doesn't f

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Player ratings of the season so far (Centre backs)

Kyle Thompson

Mar 28, 2020
3 min

Player ratings of the season so far (Centre backs)

This is part three of my player ratings for the season so far. The centre backs are the most controversial today as there are so many of them. Fabian Schar I am going to start with the elegant man. It has been a strange season for Fabian. He has scored two goals this season and, at the start of the season, played relatively fine. However, he has had minor injuries and has been in and out of the squad throughout the season. Last season, he was arguably our best player. Th

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Player Ratings of the Season so far (Right Backs)

Kyle Thompson

Mar 25, 2020
3 min

Player Ratings of the Season so far (Right Backs)

So, this is part two of my player rating series where, seen in the title, I will be covering the right backs. At the start of the season this was definitely one of the positions that was under the microscope. In my opinion, possibly still the case… DeAndre Yedlin This season for Yedlin has been a rough one, hasn't it? On and off the field. He has had injury setbacks, transfer links to Crystal Palace on deadline day as well as being in and out of the Newcastle side this season

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Rob Spereall (@rob_spereall)

Mar 11, 2020
3 min

Head to Head Records: Home v Sheffield United

Prior to the 1980s, Newcastle United came up against Sheffield United a regular basis but the fixtures between the Magpies and the Blades have become a rarity in recent years. However, Michael Ramsay from HITC Sport remembers the last time the two teams played each other back in April 2010. He said, "I remember a great goal from Kevin Nolan that was the winner on the night promotion to the Premier League was secured." In recent times, despite not coming up against each other,

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Head to Head Records: Away v Southampton

Rob Spereall (@rob_spereall)

Mar 5, 2020
2 min

Head to Head Records: Away v Southampton

Newcastle United go into a difficult game at Southampton on the back of reaching the FA Cup Quarter-Final for the first time since 2006. Southampton's season began poorly and many understandably wrote off the Saints following their 9-0 home defeat to Leicester back in October. However, if Rugby League has taught us anything, it would one simple saying, "never write off the Saints". The team by the south coast have been rewarded for persevering with Ralph Hassenhuttl and will

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Rob Spereall (@rob_spereall)

Feb 27, 2020
2 min

Head to head records: Home v Burnley

The last time Burnley paid a visit to St. James' Park, back in February 2019, the two sides met for the 100th time in league matches which saw local youth academy product, Sean Longstaff score his first senior goal for Newcastle to set up a comfortable win. This fixture also happened to be John Carver's first fixture as interim manager of his disastrous spell in charge, back on New Year's Day 2015 - it was a thrilling match that ended a 3-3 draw. In that game, Steven Taylor s

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Sam Mulliner Follow on Twitter:

Feb 24, 2020
4 min

Getting Away with Murder

No, this isn't a continuation of Florian Lejuene's bizarre program piece citing how to dispose of a dead body. This is about Steve Bruce and Newcastle United in the Premier League this season. Performances of late have been hard to watch and we seem to be saying a variation of the same thing on Newcastle Fans TV lately, and some, if not all of you would have probably had similar thoughts yourself. I have always been quick to praise Steve Bruce when it is warranted, as I feel

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Rob Spereall (@rob_spereall)

Feb 20, 2020
2 min

Head to head: Away v Crystal Palace

The reverse fixture at St. James' Park earlier in the season saw Miguel Almiron open his goalscoring account for Newcastle just before Christmas. Crystal Palace are not in the best of form at the moment however, from a Newcastle perspective, the biggest question is whether they can score a goal. Judging by those factors, a boring goalless draw could well be on the cards, a potential repeat of this fixture last season. Selhurst Park has not been a happy place for Newcastle to

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Sam Mulliner Follow on Twitter:

Feb 18, 2020
4 min

So What is Bruce Thinking?

Nabil Bentaleb was Newcastle's first signing in the January transfer window, which came out of left field and surprised journalists and fans alike. I for one, am still puzzled why Steve Bruce felt the need to bring in an additional central midfielder after the emergence of Matty Longstaff. What puzzles me even more, is that the Algerian has featured so prominently since his arrival on Tyneside, despite hardly even featuring in a match day squad for parent club Schalke 04 in t

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Rob Spereall (@rob_spereall)

Feb 15, 2020
2 min

Head to Head records: Away v Arsenal

Encounters between the Magpies and Gunners have coughed up many memorable moments in football as these two teams go a long way back in their respective histories. It is safe to say that in recent history, Arsenal appear to have relished the chance to play against Newcastle despite them arguably no longer being the powerhouses they once were around the time of the 'Invincibles' era where the Gunners won two Premier League titles in three years including a campaign when they we

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Sam Mulliner. Follow on Twitter:

Feb 2, 2020
4 min

Systems & Formations

Whispers from the terraces for Steve Bruce to change formation, are becoming shouts after yesterday's 0-0 bore draw at home to bottom of the league Norwich City. Newcastle were dominated in the main against Daniel Farke's wasteful side, with the only positive taken from the game by Bruce, was the fact that they didn't lose. So what is going wrong? The failure to bring in a striker in last months transfer window springs to mind, but that wouldn't have changed things yesterday,

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Laurence Taylor (@laurence_1999)

Jan 31, 2020
6 min

January transfer window review

It was always going to be difficult for us to get players in this January given the amount of senior players already on our books. Unlike previous years when we've named Jack Colback, Henri Saivet and Achraf Lazaar in our Premier League squad (despite the three only making one league appearance between them (which was actually the game that saw Saivet give the ball away for a goal early on before scoring a free kick four minutes later to equalise in a 3-2 win at West Ham in D

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Rob Spereall (@rob_spereall)

Jan 30, 2020
2 min

Head to Head records: Home v Norwich

Recent history between Norwich and Newcastle guarantees goals. A total of no fewer than 28 goals have been scored between the two sides against each other in the last five matches. Those matches include the two stunning victories in October 2015 - when Georginio Wijnaldum scored four goals to give Newcastle a 6-2 win - and in September 2016 which saw Dwight Gayle bag a hat-trick to help the Toon win 4-3 with a 96th minute winner coming from Gayle after Norwich went 3-1 up in

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Sam Mulliner. Follow on Twitter:

Jan 26, 2020
3 min

Keep the Faith: Sean Longstaff

Sean Longstaff, like most Newcastle players, had a day to forget yesterday. Drawing 0-0 against League One Oxford United in front of a capacity St James Park, was not in the script that should have read safe passage into the fifth round of the FA Cup. It summed up what has been a "difficult second album" of a season so far for the elder of the Longstaffs, but it is my firm belief that now is not the time to turn our back on Sean. Sean proved to be a revelation when thrust int

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Sam Mulliner Follow on Twitter:

Jan 21, 2020
2 min

Highs & Lows: Isaac Hayden

11th July 2016, Newcastle United are preparing for another unwanted season in the Championship, yet buoyed by the decision from Rafa Benitez to stay on as manager. On that July day, United make a low-key signing of Arsenal youngster Isaac Hayden for an undisclosed fee, believed to be around the £3million mark. Hayden, still only 21 years of age at the time, had been on loan Hull City, under current toon boss Steve Bruce, who had just secured promotion to the Premier League, t

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Rob Spereall (@rob_spereall)

Jan 16, 2020
3 min

Head to head: Chelsea home

Frank Lampard will be visiting St. James' Park for the first time as a manager this weekend in game that could go either way as the Sky Sports cameras will be in attendance. In the first half of the 20th century, we had an excellent record when Chelsea came up for a visit to Tyneside which puts our current great recent record in that same category to shame. In the years spanning from 1910 to 1954, we were unbeaten in 19 consecutive league matches at home to Chelsea - winning

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