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The Newcastle United Blog was started in April of 2007. On this site, the goal is to provide analysis and insight on the current football stories surrounding the Newcastle United club, from a fan’s perspective.

We also solicit comments and opinions from our readers throughout the world.

Our goal is to increase the world-wide support of our club, and to hopefully give some insight on the stories to the many Geordie fans scattered around the world.

You can advertise on The Newcastle United Blog for as little as $175/month.

Here are some of the statistics of our site, taken from Statcounter.


Quarter.   P Loads.   Unique V.  First-Time V.  Return V.

Q1 09               2,807,451    1,280,132           565,353                 7 14,779
Q4 08 2,747,516              990,839             492,348                   498,491
Q3 08               5,901,009          1,875,865      955,466                  920,399
Q2 08               1,880,759             905,553               374,051                  531,502
Q1 08               1,497,802             689,836               286,758                 403,072
Q4 07                  794,754             368,976                163,952                 208,287
Q3 07               1,023,223            556,502                214,756                341,746
Q2 07                  373,925           230,517                  94,460               136,057

TOTALS 17,026,440 6,898,220 3,148,144 3,754,333

P – Pages
V – Visitors

Valid on 1st April, 2009

The site was started in late April of 2007, and the above are statistics related to our traffic and visitors over the last several quarters. We had our first 1M hits in mid-August and currently have over 12M hits, since we started the site.

We currently rank 3rd, by Alexa, as a Newcastle United web site, behind the official Newcastle United Site (www.nufc.co.uk) , and the long runningNewcastle United Fans’ Collaboration web site.(www.nufc.com)

Advertising Options

There are three basic advertising options to choose from: text link ads, graphic ads and product/site review articles.

Text Link Ads: $175/month, place a text link to your website in the sidebar (gives you a site-wide link).
Graphic Ads: $275/month in the ads panel on the sidebar.
Product/Site Review: $125 per paid product or site review.

For all advertising and promotional queries, email us via our contact form.

Thanks,

Dr. Ed Harrison

STATS

LEAGUE STANDINGS


Pos Team     Pld  GD  Pts

16 Sunderland 38 -20   36 
18 Hull       38 -25   35
17 Newcastle  38 -19   34
19 Middlesb'  38 -29   32
20 WBA        38 -31   31

GOALS

Player    PL  FAC CC Total

Owen        8   0   2  10
Martins     8   0   0   8
Ameobi      4   0   0   4
S Taylor    4   0   0   4
Lovenkrands 3   0   0   3
N'Zogbia    2   0   1   3
Duff        3   0   0   3
Carroll     3   0   0   3
Guthrie     2   0   0   2
Milner      1   0   0   1
Barton      1   0   0   1
Xisco       1   0   0   1
Edgar       1   0   0   1

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

NEWCASTLE UNITED STRUCTURE

Board of Directors

Owner     Mike Ashley
Life
President Sir John Hall
Man Dir   Derek Llambias


Management and Coaching

Manager   ?
Coaches   Chris Hughton
Reserves  Richard Money
Goalies   Paul Barron
Fitness   Mark Hulse
          Robbie Elliott
Youth Academy
Director  Richard Money
Youth Academy
Coaches   Alan Thompson
          Kenny Wharton
Physios   Derek Wright
          Kev Bell
Head Scout - Open
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 it, after 34 years at the American computer company, 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.

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.

He 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 lassie.

At IBM Ed was in computer systems and network design for his first 22 years at the company and then in his final 12 years was persuaded to enter executive management. where he ended up running IBM's Americas' Network Consulting Group for 6 years from the late 1990s, and was instrumental in forming the 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 early 30s, 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