Newcastle Thread

Well he's one of our worst in our starting Xi, and we finished 16th.

It's clear he's got ability but he's definitely not a left back.

Yeah Santon is good, problem is Pardew who has never looked like getting the best out of him.

He's a beast on FM though.

Don't think I've seen this yet.

Kinnear tries to sign a player his club already owns.

That happened during the transfer window - papers must be struggling for bad press about Newcastle seen as we played well against the title favourites.

Yeah that has been a twitter/ man down the pub rumour for ages.

Until it was sensationally reported by former Evening Chronicle chief sports writer Alan Oliver, just days after the Chronicle was banned from Newcastle. Alan Oliver is currently banned from Newcastle following an article he wrote about Joe Kinnear. It's very impressive that 'Mr. Newcastle' has sources within the Birmingham management.

I can't really picture Joe Kinnear at a Birmingham v Swansea, Carling Cup third round tie, without even a specific target in mind. KIU Joe.

I think I remember seeing that story a little while ago.

Still quite funny, but an oldie nevertheless.

It definitely didn't happen that.

Alan Oliver was banned from Newcastle ages ago too, wasn't he?

He always used to write shite in the Chronicle.

Good couple of weeks then...

Definitely.

Things will probably be looking miserable again soon when we fail to put in performances against teams we should be beating.

Shola scored for Nigeria tonight \o/

Aye, 2009. The last time Kinnear was here.



Big test for Pardew. Newcastle have really struggled against the lesser teams who want to defend. Which Norwich and WBA will probably do.

Anyway I bought the new True Faith fanzine as it's meant to focus on Newcastle's finances. Some of the finance bits are ok, but the problem I have with it is there a couple of legit grievances, such as the website store being run by Ashley and the lying about the sponsorship being used to 'showcase' for unused space.

But most of the fanzine is a Daily Mail style of printing bollocks, to get people pissed off. Lowest common denominator stuff. Everything good under the Ashley regime is attributed to luck and everything bad is attributed to 'just deserts'. A load of bollocks made up. And loads of references to previous relegations.

No fucking wonder the club can't be arsed to communicate with the fans, when they tell the truth, the fans deliberately misinterpret the truth.

The Mag is even worse than True Faith.

Nah, The Mag is ace stuff. On par with nufc.com as the only two sources I bother to use for Newcastle news, opinions and information. Anything else is normally full of crap.

True Faith is alright, I know a few lads that contribute to it. The problem is there's not a massive amount to talk about that's positive, in spite of the previous two wins. Everyone knows that the club has hit a complete rut and there only way to get out of it in a positive way is to get bought by a Qatari quadrillionaire.

TBH I think I like them both because they're so negative and I only really enjoy talking about Newcastle when we're doing crap.

nufc.com is in it's own league on Newcastle based reporting, it's better than the official site ffs.

Jesus wept, the state of that site

What site?

nufc.com, looks like it was designed in 2001.

It was, hasn't changed design since it opened in about 1999

The content is better than any other nufc based site.

https://web.archive.org/web/20021125142836/http://nufc.com/

NUFC in 2002 \o/

Hope Haidara gets a ban. Racist prick.

Jesus your Champions League group there couldn't have been much tougher, Leverkusen finalists season before as well.

Beat them twice, once with Ameobi and LuaLua upfront \o/

Sir Bobby > everyone.

Given
Solano
Taylor
Ramage
Huntington
Milner
Dyer
Butt
Pattison
Super Sibierski
Martins

Harper
Edgar
Troisi
Carroll
Alan O'Brien

Newcastle put out this team once and won. Glenn Roeder is the greatest manager of all time.

Sibierski though

http://www.blackandwhitearmy.com/forums/index.php/topic/36968-adam-campbell-tonight/

A 38 page thread, on a St. Mirren fansite, dedicated to the possibility of them getting Adam Campbell on loan

Hello Newcastle United people, I am an 18-year-old Chinese kid who has never gone to England before. My ties with any football fellowship is rather non-existent, and my idea of being a football "supporter" hardly extends beyond following matches and celebrating along with my favourite team.

Okay, now that's out of the way. I hope you'll bear with me here... It's kind of weird for me to talk about this as I've never talked about this before. But I know it exists, and for every weekend of Saturday fixtures since about four years ago, I feel something expanding from within the deepest, darkest depths of my soul, a yearning, going against my outward character and desiring for a change.

You see, I have been a Manchester United fan since my father and my uncles were fans too. Joining alongside their cheers as David Beckham scored magnificent free kicks, I was soon following Manchester United, hogging the television off my elders every weekend, as they typically last-minute waltzed their way to several Premiership titles. I subscribed to all sorts of Manchester United newsfeeds. I saved up money to buy Manchester United memorabilia. I played in an amateur football team that consisted solely of Manchester United fans (a lot of them in Singapore). And even if it was really too easy to be any fun, I still played twenty-season games on FM with Manchester United, notching back-to-back trebles. Up till about several years ago, I was quite simply all about Manchester United.

But weird things started to happen. Things that went against everything I thought I knew about myself.

I would estimate that it started ever since Joe Kinnear was made interim manager of Newcastle United. While I still stuck mostly to Manchester United news, every time a little news snippet of Kinnear and his antics appeared on my feed, I felt a strange attraction towards them. I opened up these little clips, and read and laughed along at the nonsense that he was up to (Insomnia is a favourite). That Shay Given was made the MotM even when Newcastle lost 6-1 was another memorable bit for me. Beyond these little things, however, I never really paid much attention to Newcastle, and when they got relegated, I never gave them much thought at all.

Then they got back in the season after, a time when I began watching EPL matches beyond just Manchester United as the cable company started broadcasting more of them. And I caught a match which, in hindsight, was probably a turning point: Newcastle United 4, Arsenal 4. Tioté scoring that last-minute equaliser is a sight I'll never forget (his finishing is horrendous otherwise). I still watch match highlights of that match every now and then.

After that, I began following Newcastle United up and down the Premiership table, and it was quite a ride the next season, where Demba Ba (and Cissé thereafter) tore up the better teams in the league, ending off in a 5th place result. And I didn't really care that Manchester United lost to City for the title. All I felt happy about was that Ameobi was going to play in the Europa League next season.

Of course, I still had to banter with my family and friends, many of which were Manchester United fans themselves. But deep within my heart, I really wanted to talk about Cissé's banana kick against Chelsea.

This season, I began watching Newcastle United matches over Manchester United's if they were played in tandem, and I'm currently enjoying every single moment of link-up brilliance between Remy, Gouffran and Kebab (Anita's assist against Chelsea too) as they finally begin to start playing well as a team. I also almost exclusively play as Newcastle United on FIFA, with a tendency to start Shola Ameobi in the first-team, insisting that he has still got it in him, and ever did. Kinnear's return to Newcastle United delights me to no end. But to everyone else, I am still a Manchester United fan. I still have to talk about Manchester United with them, and my mates will ask to come over and watch Manchester United matches (I let them). I get Manchester United-esque gifts like keychains and wallets. My mom still thinks I like the colour red, and I recently found out she bought me the latest Wayne Rooney autobiography for the upcoming Christmas.

I know I've probably wasted quite a bit of your time reading all this stuff, and I'm sorry about that. It's... just that I've never talked about my closet Newcastle United feelings before, but I really needed to air out a little Newcastle Anonymous to the world. Thanks for your time, and I hope Pardew's top-four hopes are fully realised come the end of this season. It'll be a blast to watch Ameobi playing in the Champions League.

COME OUT OF THE NEWCASTLE CLOSET, BOY. IT'LL BE GOOD FOR YOU.

It is easier said than done, The Platypus. The Singaporean economy depends on the cross-currents in thoughts and feelings between the fans of the Big Four.