2010 February 07

Newcastle Squad Looks So Much Stronger Now

February 7th, 2010 · 34 Comments

Now’s a good time to look and see just how good our squad is (or isn’t), following the closing of the January transfer window.

Colin and Chris have made a difference at Newcastle this season

Do Newcastle Really Want “Super-Stars” Back?

February 7th, 2010 · 18 Comments

Kevin Nolan has come out today and said it could be 5 years before we are back in Europe and can attract world super-stars again.

What did this world super-star do for Newcastle? Not much
And he cost the club a fortune

Newcastle Interested In 18 Year-Old Norwegian Defender

February 7th, 2010 · 9 Comments

News today in the Sunday Sun that Newcastle are monitoring the progress of a promising Norwegian defender, Vegar Eggen Hedenstad.

Vegar Eggen Hedenstad – Newcastle interested

More News On Jóhan Símun Edmundsson

February 7th, 2010 · 6 Comments

When we reported last week that Jóhan Símun Edmundsson had signed on at Newcastle, our readers in the Faroe Islands were very excited about the prospects for Johan at the club.

France’s Frank Ribery and Jóhan Símun Edmundsson

STATS

LEAGUE STANDINGS


Pos Team      Pld   GD   Pts


1 Newcastle     35   40    73
3 WBA           36   31    69
2 Notts Forest  36   21    64
4 Swansea       36    8    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