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NUFC Pre-Season

Columbus 0 Newcastle United 3

July 27, 2011

Newcastle United ended their tour of the United States with a game against MLS Team Columbus Crew. I had the pleasure of traveling to Columbus this week and was pleased to say that the Toon Army was well represented – there were black and white shirts everywhere! Columbus started off really well and were knocking [...]

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Bore Draw in Kansas – Ben Arfa Okay

July 21, 2011

Newcastle United’s game against Kansas City got off to a decent start last night, and was by all accounts a good 45 minutes of football. The second-half though was a bit of a snooze-fest with the Toon only having a Danny Simpson shot at goal for anything worth remembering. The main talking point though was [...]

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Newcastle United 2 PSV Eindhoven 2

July 31, 2010

One year ago today we were all devastated by the news that Sir Bobby Robson had lost his latest and final battle against cancer. We all have our favourite memories of Sir Bobby, and there wasn’t a person in the world who had a bad word to say about him. The game today between Newcastle [...]

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Sending Out an SOS: Newcastle United in Humiliating Defeat

July 25, 2009

The Police had it right, only for Newcastle United, nobody seems to be listening. If our humiliating 6-1 defeat against Leyton Orient this afternoon wasn’t signal enough for Mike Ashley that he needs to get out of Toon and quick, then I shudder to think what will. Ashley, who is holding out for 100 million [...]

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Shamrock Rovers 0 – NUFC 3

July 11, 2009

Newcastle United got off to a positive start today as they defeated Shamrock Rovers 3-0. Goals from Steven Taylor, Shola Ameobi and Nile Ranger sealed the victory. You can see Chris Hughton’s response in the video below. Is it just me, or does he seem very coy when asked about next week and the game [...]

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