The Newcastle United Blog

Danny Simpson played again for Newcastle last night, in what was his 123 rd appearance for the Magpies since joining the club on loan in the summer of 2009, following our relegation, and then signing on permanently for about £500K from Manchester United in January of 2010. Danny Simpson – thanks fans

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We were all very happy to get back into Europe again this season, after six seasons in the wilderness, but when you do not have the squad to cope with the extra games what happens?     The Europa League simply affects our Premier League form, because we simply cannot cope with the extra games, [...]

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Newcastle went ahead in this game after 23 minutes, with a good goal by Sylvain Marveaux, who was nicely set up by Ben Arfa – but in the second half Newcastle ceded possession to Maritimo, who had only 2 points (one off Newcastle) and were bottom of Group D coming into this game, and yet [...]

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Alan Pardew has talked about how Newcastle cannot match the top clubs on a financial basis, but surely with the financial books now being balanced, and extra revenues flowing in from Wonga from the shirt deal, and crowds at St. James’ Park being around 50,000 again, we should be starting to see money coming into [...]

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Alan Pardew is getting to grips with the fact that Newcastle are struggling in the Premier League in a season where we are doing quite well in the Europa league, currently lying top of Group D, and a win tonight at home to Maritimo can see us qualify for the knockout rounds of the competition. [...]

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When Newcastle received the news at 1:45 pm on Saturday that Papiss Cisse was being prevented from playing for Newcastle because the Senegal Football Federation had initiated the five day rule, and Newcastle immediately issued their statement on the matter – we thought if anything our players would have been even more determined to do [...]

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It’s not exactly a crisis at Newcastle,  but with Norwich beating Manchester United at Carrow Road over the weekend, they now have 11 points from their last five games and only conceded one goal in that period under Chris Hughton, and are now level on points with Newcastle, and Sunderland managed to score three times [...]

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Alan Pardew is under some pressure at the moment,  after seeing Newcastle lose two home games in a row at home against what we would consider mediocre sides in West Ham and Swansea, and no disrespect to those two clubs but it’s not like we were beaten by Chelsea and Manchester City for instance. Alan [...]

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