It’s back! As reassuring as a steaming cup of Bovril on a cold winter’s afternoon in Ashington. It’s Scott Robson indispensable non-league preview. Let the fun begin! *** Even though it doesn’t seem like two minutes since the final whistle went on last season, It’s almost time for us all to do it ag
As a footballer Justin Fashanu was a groundbreaker. In 1981 he went from growing up in foster care in Norwich to becoming a million pound footballer. A year earlier he had probably cemented his massive move to Nottingham Forest with one of the greatest ever top flight goals when he chipped the ball
If you fancied a quiet summer largely forgetting about Newcastle United, well, good luck with that. In the last few weeks we’ve had the farrago with PSR (Profit and Sustainability Rules) with the associated sales of Elliot Anderson and Yankuba Minteh, the indecent haste in the departures of Amanda S
You’ve got to admire Chelsea. Before the veins in your neck start to bulge at such a suggestion, I don’t mean in any footballing sense. No, I mean you have to doff your cap to their “creative” Accounting team. They’ve turned finding increasingly dubious ways of complying with the Premier League’s Pr
The England job is vacant, and Eddie Howe is linked with it. YOUSEF HATEM (@yousef_1892) gets stuck in… Context. Football is not home. It is out. Southgate is not in. He, too, is out. The Ing-er-land manager, I think, should always be Ing-er-lish. One need not be xenophobic or arrogant to hold
As the dust settles and the street cleaners on Northumberland Street finally tidy away the sea of floral tributes and impromptu shrines to Saint Amanda – Goodbye Tyneside’s Rose, though I never knew you at all – the really important questions surround the impact of her departure: for the club, for u
Another eventful week in the life and times of Newcastle United saw the end of a mini-era in the club’s history as Amanda Staveley end her relationship with the club as her shares have been bought by the Saudi PIF and the Reuben Bros who are now the sole owners. Changes like these are always...The p
The numbers are not exactly on your side if you are a young footballer. A Premier League study (got to be gospel – nothing about that league is overblown or bent) recently found that of 4,109 players in tier one academies over a five year period, seventy percent were not even handed a contract at...
After a chaotic and worrying previous weekend that left key questions unanswered, we got a couple of positives last week. I think we needed them. First up was the appointment of new Newcastle United Sporting Director, Paul Mitchell, who’s CV can only impress following his stints at MK Dons, Southamp
I had mentioned in passing on Facebook that I had read this excellent book “Played in Germany” whilst travelling to/from Munich to see the Round of 16 game between Holland and Romania at the awesome Allianz Arena. TF Gruppenführer Mikel Martins was notified of my pleasure by his vast network of sne
