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Newcastle Spotlight On Youth – 17 Year-Old Brad Inman

June 2nd, 2009 · 13 Comments

It was good to see Brad Inman, our Australian 17 year-old midfielder come on for the last 8 minutes of the England – Scotland U19 game last night – which England won 2-1 with another goal (his 4th in last 3 games) from the impressive looking striker Nile Ranger.

Brad Inman – with father Dave and [...]

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Interview With 18 Year-Old Brazilian Coming to Newcastle

January 15th, 2009 · 58 Comments

There are reports in Brazil that Newcastle United are about to sign a promising young forward called Caio Ferreira.

18 year old Caio Vinicius Feirreira – signing for Newcastle next week

Newcastle’s Excellent Young Player Skills Initiative

November 12th, 2008 · 34 Comments

The Newcastle United Skills Program is launched this month, and it will see Newcastle players visiting schools in the Newcastle and North Tyneside areas initially.

Can you spot which ones are Seb Bassong and Steven Taylor?

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Youngsters Lead the Way at Newcastle United

March 13th, 2008 · 11 Comments

We cannot help but contrast the fortunes of our youngsters with the players of the first team, as it’s an interesting contrast in guts and fortune. But fortune always favors the brave.

Ben Tozer – just one of the youngsters creating a buzz at the club

Focus on Newcastle Youth: Kazenga Lua Lua

February 26th, 2008 · 27 Comments

Thus is the start of a new series we’ll be running as we profile some of Newcastle’s exciting young stars, who are working their way up at the club.

Kazenga Lua Lua – 17 years old and looks good already

STATS

LEAGUE STANDINGS


Pos Team      Pld   GD   Pts


1 Newcastle    36   43    76
3 WBA          37   33    72
2 Notts Forest 37   20    64
4 Leicester    36   11    60

GOALS

Player     PL  FAC CC Total

Lovenkrands 11  3  0 14
Carroll     12  2  0 14
Nolan       12  0  1 13
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