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STATS

League Position

Pos Team      Pld  GD  Pts
16 Wigan       13  -3   13
17 Newcastle   13  -5   13
18 Blackburn   13 -10   13


Goals
Player   PL  FAC CC Total
Owen      4   0   2   6
Martins   5   0   1   6
Ameobi    3   0   0   3
N'Zogbia  1   0   1   2
Milner    1   0   0   1
Taylor    1   0   0   1
Duff      1   0   0   1
Barton    1   0   0   1
PL – Premier league
FAC – FA Cup
CC – Carling Cup

Injuries

Player     Injury    Return

Smith      Achilles  Dec08
Ngo Baheng ACL Knee  Jan09
M Viduka   Achilles    ?
González   Achilles    ?

Dates are return to training

SIR BOBBY ROBSON FOUNDATION



The great man cast in bronze

Robson’s foundation will fund cancer research and treatment, a cause close to his heart after contracting cancer five times, including inoperable tumors in his lungs.

The hope of the foundation is to raise an initial £500,000 to fund 12-bed treatment rooms, a laboratory, and consulting rooms for a new Cancer Care Center at Newcastle’s Freeman Hospital, though he has no intention of stopping there.

We’d like to help wherever we can so donations can be made here or by mailing a check to:

Sir Bobby Robson Foundation, PO Box 307, Heaton, Newcastle Upon Tyne NE7 7QG. England.

News Of The World Column

Take a look at Ed's News of The World column . Ed has agreed to write about each of Newcastle's games, from a fans' viewpoint, immediately following the games - comments are very welcome.

NEWCASTLE FAN SITES AROUND THE WORLD
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Serbia
Norway
North America
New York
Singapore
Croatia, Bosnia, Herzegovina
Hong Kong
Poland
Russia
Denmark
Israel
Hungary
Czech Republic
Thailand
Malaysia
Switzerland
Indonesia
Korea
China
Australia
Faroe Islands
Iceland

If there any sites we have missed drop us a line via this comments form.

NEWCASTLE UNITED STRUCTURE

Board of Directors

Owner     Mike Ashley
Life
President Sir John Hall
Man Dir   Derek Llambias
Exec Dir  Dennis Wise
Football
Technical Jeff Vetere
Coordinator


Management and Coaching

Manager   Joe Kinnear
Coaches   Chris Hughton
Reserves  Richard Money
Goalies   Paul Barron
Fitness   Mark Hulse
          Robbie Elliott
Youth Academy
Manager   Richard Money
Youth Academy
Coaches   Joe Jordan
          Kenny Wharton
          Simon Tweddle
Physios   Derek Wright
Kev Bell
Head Scout P Montgomery
Scouts     C McMenemy
           Vic Halom
           Bobby Saxton
           Jack Chapman

Author

Dr. Ed Harrison is a retired IBM Consulting Group Executive who now has time, and lots of time, to write about his lifelong passion - Newcastle United Football Club.

Ed was born and bred in Newcastle Upon Tyne, and watched his first game at St. James’ Park in 1949 as a 4 year-old with his Mother and Father. He was told to look out for number 9 - Jackie Milburn – the great Wor Jackie - and was he fast!

In football terms Ed was a goalkeeper and played for Wharrier Street Primary School and Newcastle Minors (Newcastle Schoolboys Under-11), in 1956 and went on to play for Newcastle Schoolboys and Northumberland Schoolboys (Under-15) in 1959 and an England Schoolboys trial.

He was at Newcastle United for a couple of years from 1960 as an amateur, while still at school, and played with Bobby Moncur and David Craig, amongst others, for the Newcastle United Juniors side (Newcastle N’s in those days), during the relegation season of 1960-1961.

Ed attended Heaton Technical and Manor Park schools, and then went on to study at both King’s College, London (BSc Electrical Engineering) and Newcastle University (PhD Computer Science). He played for Newcastle Universities and England Universities from 1967 until 1970.

But a short couple of years after Ed joined IBM in 1970, he was shipped over to the USA, with his new wife Madeline, a beautiful local Newcastle lass.

At IBM Ed was in computer systems and network design for 25 years and in his last 10 years at the company entered executive management, where he ended up running IBM's Americas Network Consulting Group for 5 years from the late 1990s, and was instrumental in forming the IBM alliance with Cisco Systems in 1999.

Ed and Madeline live just outside Raleigh in North Carolina. Their twin sons Paul and Neil, and daughter Elaine, now all in their early 30s, live close by, and Neil has carried on the family tradition, and is an avid Newcastle United fan.

And one final thing that is so true - you can take the boy out of Newcastle but you can't take Newcastle out of the boy!