The Newcastle United Blog

Three Newcastle players – Davide Santon, Yohan Cabaye and Tim Krul played the whole game for Italy, France and Holland respectively tonight in the International friendlies, and Moussa Sissoko played for 80 minutes as France were beaten 2-1 by Germany at the Stade de France. Davide Santon – 8th full cap for Italy tonight

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The French  National team manager Didier Deschamps has just named his latest squad to play Germany on February 6th, and it includes three Newcastle players – but in the months ahead we could well see more French players from Newcastle called up for the French squad. Moussa Sissoko included in France squad

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Even through we’ve lost both the last two games by 4-3 and 7-3, there were still some good things to come out of those defeats, and one of them was our ability to create chances again and actually score goals, and a lot of that has been due to the good form of Sylvain Marveaux, [...]

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It seems that Alan Pardew is trying to stop Shola Ameobi from going to the African Cup of Nations next month, and the Newcastle manager issued a statement on Monday to that effect to BBC Sports, but Alan said he would like to keep the reasons to himself. Shola Ameobi – after scoring great goal last Saturday

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Shola Ameobi has been named in Nigeria’s provisional squad that was named yesterday for the African Cup of Nations, which is to take place in South Africa for around six weeks starting in early January. Shola Ameobi – in Nigeria’s colors

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In what must be one of the stupidest decisions ever made by a football body,  the Senegal Football Federation invoked the five day rule to prevent Papiss Cisse from playing for Newcastle yesterday – after they played a friendly game in Niamey, Niger in midweek, and at least six  Senegal players, including Cisse,  pulled out [...]

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It didn’t help today that the Senegal FA activated the five day rule to stop Cisse playing for Newcastle, because he had not traveled to join up with the Senegal squad for the game with Niger in mid-week – a friendly game that means nothing – and Cisse was supposed to travel all that distance [...]

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It seems the Senegal FA have used the five day rule to prevent Newcastle striker Papiss Cisse from playing today against Swansea – that’s going to be great for Newcastle – Senegal relations in the future. Papiss Cisse – not playing today

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