The Newcastle United Blog

Gareth Bale has been in excellent form over the last few games, and he carried that into yesterday’s game against Newcastle, and unfortunately for the Magpies, they couldn’t stop him scoring two goals, one after 5 minutes and one just 12 minutes from the end of the 90 minutes,  and that was enough to give [...]

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Newcastle have proved, without a shadow of a doubt, that once we have some of our big players out of the side, we are only a mediocre side at best. We’ve had three top players missing over the last few months – Steven Taylor, Yohan Cabaye and Ben Arfa, but without them we’ve looked just an ordinary side, and have [...]

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It’s good to have a little bit of good news to report this morning, as our pursuit of Loic Remy may not be going exactly according to plan, and the news is that James Perch has recovered well from his knee injury, and should be in the squad for Norwich and likely will be in [...]

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It looks like Newcastle will try to start the game on the front foot against Arsenal today, but we shouldn’t attack too much early on, because there are times when we’ve simply been taken apart in the first half of games, because we’ve tried to go toe to toe with better sides and they have [...]

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Newcastle have only three experienced center-backs – but we knew that in the summer-  so it’s a bit pointless to now complain we are short of defensive cover, after Steven Taylor has again been out with a long term injury this season. Mike Williamson – suspended today

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We expect James Perch to line up alongside Fabricio Coloccini in place of the suspended Mike Williamson today at Arsenal, simply because Newcastle have no more options other than that, since we only have three experienced center-backs at the club, and Steven Taylor is out injured again with a long term injury – this time [...]

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Cheick Tiote picked up yet another yellow card in the game on Saturday, and that’s five yellow cards so he is suspended for the game against Manchester United at Old Trafford. Perch congratulates Shola after great winning goal

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James Perch has been interviewed in the local press today and he says the players were again gutted at the end of the game last saturday against Manchester City and for the sixth time in our last seven league games we took absolutely nothing out of the game. James Perch – we were gutted on [...]

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