It’s 100 days today. One hundred glorious, unbelievable, still-can’t-quite-believe-it days since that final whistle blew at Wembley, and Newcastle United, our Newcastle United, lifted the League Cup. Our first trophy in a generation. And what a generation it was – a generation of near misses, heartbreaks, and too often, simply just hoping for the best. … Read more
An exclusive has arrived this morning from The Telegraph’s Luke Edwards, who has issued an update on Newcastle’s pursuit of Brentford star Bryan Mbeumo. The Cameroonian has been linked with a move to Tyneside over the past 12 months and it’s been widely reported that Toon scouts have been tracking the 25-year-old. Our pursuit of … Read more
As we know, Eddie Howe has missed the last three games after being hospitalised with pneumonia. This saw Jason Tindall step in over a crucial period in our season, where we followed back-to-back wins over Man Utd and Crystal Palace with a disappointing 4-1 defeat to Aston Villa last Saturday. Heading into Saturday’s 3pm kick-off … Read more
It wasn’t always pretty, but Newcastle avoided a post-celebrations hangover to beat Brentford 2-1 at St James’ Park last night. The result sends us back up to fifth thanks to goals from Alexander Isak and Sandro Tonali, although the former was one of three who come away from the game with a new injury issue. … Read more
It’s a new week, a chance to put recent setbacks behind us and easily the biggest few days of our season. Despite all the talk centering around Sunday’s final at Wembley, where we’ll take on an in-form Liverpool side for a chance to lift the Carabao Cup, we have massive Premier League game to tackle … Read more
Newcastle United won at the Emirates for the first time since 2010 with goals from Alexander Isak and Anthony Gordon securing a massive 2-0 aggregate lead in the first leg of the Carabao Cup Semi-final. Eddie Howe schooled Mikel Arteta tactically (once again) as the Stoke-of-North-London struggled to make anything from open play. Heroic out … Read more
I watched Newcastle’s recent FA youth cup win vs Brighton and I was extremely impressed by a few of our young players, who shone in a 2-1 win over the Seagulls. In this piece, I am going to speak about four in particular; Michael Mills, Sam Alabi, Rory Finneran and Leo Shahar. Leo Shahar had … Read more
Eddie Howe’s Mags were, rightly, lambasted for their abject attacking performance against Crystal Palace on the 30 November, which resulted in a full 90 minutes with just a single shot on goal and only 12 touches in the opposition box. To make matters worse, Palace were deeply ensconced within the bottom three at the time, … Read more