2009 January

Entries from January 2009

Newcastle vs Sunderland – Match Preview

January 31st, 2009 · 338 Comments

Every game in the league from now on for Newcastle United is a critical game in which 3 points are at stake.

Tags: Match Preview · Newcastle News

Kevin Nolan Already Talking Like A Newcastle Captain

January 31st, 2009 · 366 Comments

It turns out that if Kevin Nolan needed any advice to join Newcastle he got it from one of our great midfielders of seasons gone by – the great Gary Speed.

Gary Speed – while at Bolton Wanderers

Kinnear Reveals Toulouse Club Play Foul Over Ebondo

January 31st, 2009 · 33 Comments

Joe Kinnear has been left more than frustrated with Newcastle’s failure to sign right-back, Albin Ebondo, from Toulouse, but it looks like the fault lies with the French club – shame on them.

Albin Ebondo – poor ethics from the Toulouse club

Ryan Taylor Through The Door At Newcastle?

January 31st, 2009 · 43 Comments

Ryan Taylor presumably has signed for Newcastle United in what is said to be around a £1.5M deal from Wigan Athletic, but we still don’t know if the signing is official.

Ryan Taylor – versatile and good player

Newcastle Ready To Unload High Wage Earners In Summer

January 31st, 2009 · 132 Comments

Now that we’ve witnessed the transfer window in January, it seems fairly obvious who Joe Kinnear will be moving out in the summer at Newcastle.

Michael Owen – will have cost the club around £1.3M for every goal

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Tags: Alan Smith · Claudio Cacapa · Contracts · Geremi · Injuries · Jose Enrique · Mark Viduka · Newcastle News · Xisco

STATS

LEAGUE STANDINGS


Pos Team      Pld   GD   Pts


1 Newcastle    36   43    76
3 WBA          37   33    72
2 Notts Forest 37   20    64
4 Leicester    36   11    60

GOALS

Player     PL  FAC CC Total

Lovenkrands 11  3  0 14
Carroll     12  2  0 14
Nolan       12  0  1 13
Ameobi       7  0  1  8
Guthrie      4  0  1  5
Harewood     5  0  0  5
Taylor R.    4  0  0  4
Ranger       2  0  0  2
Coloccini    2  0  0  2
Gutierrez    2  0  0  2
Taylor S.    1  0  0  1
Geremi       0  0  1  1     
Duff         1  0  0  1
Pancrate     1  0  0  1 
Simpson      1  0  0  1
Routledge    1  0  0  1

PL – Premier league
FAC – FA Cup
CC – Carling Cup

Author

Dr. Ed Harrison is a retired IBM Consulting Group Executive who now has 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 parents and was told to look out for Newcastle's number 9 - Jackie Milburn – the great Wor Jackie - and was he fast!

Ed played for the Newcastle U11 and U15 schoolboys and Northumberland schoolboys, 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.

Ed 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 Under-18 side (Newcastle N’s in those days), during the relegation season of 1960-1961. The season after Ed left Newcastle, the U18s won the FA Youth Cup for the very first time - and now we know why.

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 girl.

At IBM Ed was in computer systems and network design for 22 years, and then in his final 12 years at the company, was in executive management, where he ended up running IBM's Americas' Network Consulting Practice for 6 years from the late 1990s, and was instrumental in forming the prosperous IBM networking 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, are now in their 30s and live close by, and Neil has carried on the family tradition by becoming an avid Newcastle United supporter.

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

Howay The Lads!!

The Newcastle United Blog

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