The Newcastle United Blog

The Independent is reporting this morning the meeting between Rafa and Mike Ashley did not in fact take place at the Benton Training ground last night, but rather a helicopter came in […]

Newcastle United manager Rafa Benitez made a visit to the Newcastle dressing room just before our U23 side beat Fulham in the U23 team’s play-off semi-final win over Fulham last night. It turns out that […]

It was a magnificent day for Newcastle fans everywhere yesterday, as everything came together and not only did we easily win our final game of the season 3-0 at home to Barnsley, […]

We are hoping that Rafa Benitez gets a new long term contract this summer at Newcastle and it looks like Rafa has been thinking along those same lines as well, but of […]

When we saw the press conference with Rafa yesterday we had to watch it a couple of times it was so positive. It seems Rafa is ready to try to get the […]

It was revealed yesterday that Jamaal Lascelles has been playing for about four months and probably longer with a groin problem and he has had to play through the pain barrier during […]

It was fairly obvious before the start of the Newcastle vs Crystal Palace game on April 30th last year that Rafa Benitez and Alan Pardew were friends and  that was probably due […]

You have probably already realized that one of our favorite young players at Newcastle is Isaac Hayden and this lad has had a great first season on Tyneside and and quite honestly it […]

Isaac Hayden is one of the best signings we made last summer when we paid Arsenal a measly £2.5M for him. Rafa had met him in north London and after that two […]

Jamie Carragher has talked today about what he learned from Rafa Benitez and about Rafa Benitez in the famous six years Rafa was the manager at Liverpool. As we have all found […]

Think back two days ago when we are all thought our promotion back to the Premier League could be jeopardized by some tomfoolery from those at the top. We heard  the Newcastle club was accused […]

In reviewing comments from both Rafa and the Newcastle fans this bonnie morning there seems to be a growing optimism, based on Rafa’s stellar press conference yesterday, that all could be (very) good […]

We are trying  to forget about that HMRC investigation  and hope it will be on the back-burner and that it’s not as bad as it first appeared. Certainly the way things at Newcastle […]

Players who play in central defense sometimes get their initial first team experience as full-backs, since mistakes made on the flanks are usually less costly than those made in the middle of the defense. […]

We all knew we were getting a world-class manager in last March when Rafa Benitez famously walked through the door at St. James’ Park after Lee Charnley had finally fired Steve McClaren and […]

Rafa Benitez is very pragmatic and he is not getting carried away by what could be a really great night at St. James’ Park and he is only concentrating on how his […]

DeAndre Yedlin has returned to the fray after recovering from his thigh injury, but Newcastle have managed to go on their worst three game run and worst eight game run of the […]