2009 June

Entries from June 2009

Joey Barton Too Risky – Will Be Moved On In Summer

June 30th, 2009 · 93 Comments

All of the Newcastle first team squad will report to the Benton training grounds tomorrow except the 5 players who have been on International duty.

Joey Barton – will be moved out of club in summer

David Edgar Signs Four Year Deal At Burnley

June 30th, 2009 · 26 Comments

David Edgar has signed a four year contract at Premier League side Burnley.

David Edgar – signs four year deal at Burnley

Most Of Newcastle’s Transfer Targets Still Available

June 30th, 2009 · 33 Comments

If the sale of the Newcastle club doesn’t go through this week, it will likely start to hurt our moves in the transfer market, and we could miss out on some of our top summer transfer targets.

Alan Shearer – has list of transfer targets

Hughton – I Really Enjoyed Working With Shearer And Dowie

June 30th, 2009 · 6 Comments

Chris Hughton will take the first team squad tomorrow, and it’s important that some of our senior players like Harper, Butt, Beye and Steven Taylor do their very best to support Chris in his interim role until the ownership of the club gets sorted out.

Chris Hughton – senior players must support him on Wednesday

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Shepherd Thinks Potential Deal Is 50-50

June 30th, 2009 · 41 Comments

A little more news on the report earlier this morning, that Freddy Shepherd is ready to bid £60M for Newcastle.

Freddy Shepherd – fronting local consortium

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STATS

LEAGUE STANDINGS


Pos Team      Pld   GD   Pts


1 Newcastle    35   40    73
3 WBA          37   33    72
2 Notts Forest 37   20    64
4 Leicester    36   11    60

GOALS

Player     PL  FAC CC Total

Nolan       12  0  1 13
Lovenkrands 10  3  0 13
Carroll     10  2  0 12
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