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News, Views and Comment On Newcastle United Football Club By Ed Harrison, A Proud Geordie And Lifelong Fan

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Steven Taylor to be Captain of Newcastle United?

July 15th, 2007 · 32 Comments

The Sunday Sun is reporting today that Steven Taylor is the shock leading candidate for the vacant Newcastle captaincy — and the chance to become the youngest United skipper of all time.
Newcastle boss Sam Allardyce is reported to be almost ready to hand the armband to 21-year-old Taylor. This is a surprise move since [...]

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Major Newcastle News Stories - July 15th - 2007

July 15th, 2007 · 18 Comments

Here are the major news stories associated with the Newcastle club for today in no particular order of priority.
We are linked with Ronaldinho in the News of the World today - but maybe that’s another ploy by the NOTW to sell their papers with sensationalized news. In any case we do comment on the story [...]

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Tags: Daily Roundup

Oba Martins Future Hopefully Lies at Newcastle

July 15th, 2007 · 13 Comments

Newcastle manager Sam Allardyce was scheduled to hold talks with Obafemi Martins last Friday in an attempt to keep him at St James’ Park.
We all now know that the Nigerian striker has a £13M release clause in his contract which could be triggered by any club prepared to pay that amount before the transfer window [...]

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Tags: Newcastle News · Obafemi Martins · Players · Transfer News and Rumours

Too Early for Newcastle to Pursue Ronaldinho

July 15th, 2007 · 60 Comments

The News of the World is reporting today that Newcastle United have made an inquiry about World Player of the Year Ronaldinho.
Since Newcastle have been doing quite a bit of negotiating with Barcelona for players Edmilson, Gudjohnsen and perhaps Deco - it’s not totally surprising Newcastle may have asked about Ronaldinho.
But we need to build [...]

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Tags: Newcastle News · Players · Transfer News and Rumours

James Milner - Example to Youngsters Everywhere

July 15th, 2007 · 4 Comments

Newcastle United have just had promising young winger James Milner signed up for the next four years when they gave him a new and improved contract last week.
We expect the same thing to be happening to Steven Taylor within the next couple of weeks - as we mentioned yesterday – as reward for his excellent [...]

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Tags: Newcastle News · Players