Newcastle fans have two games to watch this weekend as Newcastle play in the Sela Cup featuring
Newcastle United, Fiorentina, Nice, and Villarreal at St. James’Park – the final two friendlies before we kick off the season at home to Aston Villa next weekend.
The games take place tomorrow and Sunday.
Saturday 5th August: 07:30 OGC Nice vs Villarreal CF 10:30 Newcastle vs ACF Fiorentina Sunday 6 August 2023 08:00 ACF Fiorentina vs OGC Nice 11:00 Newcastle vs Villarreal CF
We should add that Newcastle United Women play West Bromwich Albion Women at St. James’ Park on Saturday, 5th August KO 6:00pm as part of the two-day Sela Cup.
Here is Eddie Howe’s full press conference that has just ended this morning for these games.
Comments welcome.
848 comments so far
Charlie in the Gallowgate
Aug 4, 2023 at 12:08 PM
Comment #41Newcastle depends what you want out of life
Which other city offers you within half an hour – beaches, Hadrians Wall, Northumberland, Durham- easy City to get in and out by car – metro system – loads of excellent eating and drinking establishments, Metro Centre Posh hoooses for the players to live rent ie Darras Hall
What more do you want
Pity Northumberland Street is a mess why the coooooncil let the utility companies dig up the pavements then fill the hole and tarmac it instead of replacing the pavements.
ToonDarnSarf
Aug 4, 2023 at 12:11 PM
Comment #42Check – I was born and brought up in the north so you can stick that in your pipe and smoke it. 😉
I don’t give a stuff about any of this north/south divide though. Some northerners don’t shut up about how crap the south is and some southerners don’t shut up about how crap the north is. All utter garbage. Both and south are both fantastic areas to live in, just depends on the specific area and what you want from life. I bloody loved living in London in my late 20s but was very glad to leave in my early 30s and can’t envisage moving back there. Still a great place to visit though. Would I move back to Newcastle? I’d certainly not rule that out, though I do like the warmer weather darn sarf…better for golf! 🙂
Sir Pugalot, the Dutch Bulldog
Aug 4, 2023 at 12:12 PM
Comment #43CTT . TDS Has lived in Newcastle and is not a bad lad as the blog meet last year will testify.
Anyway, you used wrath so I have had to put this up.
https://fansided.com/2019/05/21/pulp-fiction-25-ezekiel-bible-verse/
CLINT FLICK
Aug 4, 2023 at 12:12 PM
Comment #44I remember oasis coming to the Riverside, then proclaiming to be the hardest band in the world… Guess what happened next?
Oh! How we laughed!
😀
One of ’ems ex-p weller guitars didn’t make it, either.
More southerners forgetting to be polite in a proper northern Toon.
Neither condemning nor condoning, just regaling.
😉
Sir Pugalot, the Dutch Bulldog
Aug 4, 2023 at 12:13 PM
Comment #45video there somewhere
Mund
Aug 4, 2023 at 12:13 PM
Comment #46Going on about how great Liverpool are again and how much better a place it is than Newcastle…
It’s like Groundhog Day
It’s almost like he wants a reaction
Shape up!
Sir Pugalot, the Dutch Bulldog
Aug 4, 2023 at 12:16 PM
Comment #47TDS, I am thinking of Whitley Bay and links golf. How it should be played. In winter with horizontal hail coming at you.
The Rabbit is hell bent on moving there, I just haven’t told her that there is a golf course right behind 🙂
Sir Pugalot, the Dutch Bulldog
Aug 4, 2023 at 12:16 PM
Comment #48Mund, I don’t see that statement. Quite the opposite.
the crown princes nashers
Aug 4, 2023 at 12:17 PM
Comment #49TDS
we also have foreign students who attend uni in newcastle as well, who also i may add love newcastle and the surrounding areas of the north east of england, when they have done there studies some want to stay here because they love it, also tall ships race, first powered small boat here, parson steam turbine, The omnipresent light switch was brought to us by another Newcastle inventor by the name of John Henry Holmes,Joseph Swan of Low Fell, Gatehead, famous for inventing an incandescent light bulb, there is many many other inventions made in the north east of england, I understand your going by age well to learn all ages must know our past as well as our future does it not
CLINT FLICK
Aug 4, 2023 at 12:22 PM
Comment #50…and now the introduction of N/S divide!
…can i offer you a good price on this here spade?
😀
Sir Pugalot, the Dutch Bulldog
Aug 4, 2023 at 12:23 PM
Comment #51Turbine still in the Exhibition Park? Is that still there. I used to go there and the Hancock Museum all the time. When I wasn’t in a swimming pool or library.
Even went through the ehm! channels in Vindoolanda. It was a hot day. I was told it was for grain storage. I know better now!
Sir Pugalot, the Dutch Bulldog
Aug 4, 2023 at 12:25 PM
Comment #52I can just see the “how to confuse an Irish Man joke coming”
oh, here it is.
Offer them two shovels and tell them to take a pick. Sorry Irish lot. I am 1/2 Irish so only taking 50% of the blame.
the crown princes nashers
Aug 4, 2023 at 12:28 PM
Comment #53there has always been north and south divide, what it really means is this divide and concur, its just like everthing else, just look at the woke lot to see that these days and others
lesh
Aug 4, 2023 at 12:29 PM
Comment #54Despite the many good things about Tyneside and its neighbouring areas, there aren’t too many top top players living here compared with the number of big names living in or around Manchester, Liverpool and London.
Big name players probably want to mix with others and thus may find living in those areas more attractive.
Sir Pugalot, the Dutch Bulldog
Aug 4, 2023 at 12:30 PM
Comment #55the crown princes nashers
I do like to divide and agree, especially when sharing several curries with friends. 🙂
the crown princes nashers
Aug 4, 2023 at 12:31 PM
Comment #56lesh
thats because they have been buying the leagues since the 60s though, remember they are the ones who are trying there best to keep us in check into buying our own title
end of the day all clubs buy players to win the title just these days top so called toxic 6 dont want there house torn down do they
Wor B
Aug 4, 2023 at 12:44 PM
Comment #57Top tip…
If you’ve never heard the Northumbrian pipes, borrow your neighbour’s cat and stand on its tail.
Just kidding, animal lovers and Kathryn Tickell.
lesh
Aug 4, 2023 at 12:46 PM
Comment #58Nashers
Whether their employing clubs have been buying the titles or not, top players likely want to mix with top players and if there’s a big pool to mix with, then they surely will want to.
Anyway, it’s hardly a major issue is it.
And….. since you mentioned John Holmes, he teamed up with Alphonse Reyrolle who’d come to Tyneside to make HV switchgear. As you said, CA Parsons was making turbines and the growth of Tyneside’s industrial base required electricity and it’s generation and control equipment. Hence the growth of what became major employers in Parsons and Reyrolle, each employing over 12,000 in their peak years. And then came Thatcher and the rest’s history.
DrGloom
Aug 4, 2023 at 12:49 PM
Comment #59Been to Liverpool a few times, its alright- scousers are friendly enough although I can’t understand a normal person wanting to live there ahead of Newcastle… bit of a shithole if you ask me.
I can understand players moving there or Manchester because of history of the clubs over the basket case that was newcastle united … things will turn once we’ve won the league and ECL a couple of times – we’re probably never going to have the pull of London for obvious reasons but we have a better city than Liverpool or Manchester… just having a history of the beatles ( who most young uns barely know ) is hardly cultural ..
Anyway, my 2 pennorth
A Geordie Mongrel
Aug 4, 2023 at 12:49 PM
Comment #60Afternoon all. TDS, you owe me a bandaid. I need it for when my jaw hit the floor following your post @326, previous bus.
I’ll not comment further as others have said everything I would. Except maybe that most Geordies do not consider Liverpool or Manchester the North.
Legolas
Aug 4, 2023 at 12:50 PM
Comment #61Agree Clint, I was just passing on some info.
I agree with what he was saying though, why buy a right back and move stripper over to left? He can play there no doubt, but why not just buy a left back?
DrGloom
Aug 4, 2023 at 12:51 PM
Comment #62AGM – correct, I even call one of my best mates from Keighley a southerner )
Legolas
Aug 4, 2023 at 12:52 PM
Comment #63I get home sick if I pass the Angel of the North 🙂
Legolas
Aug 4, 2023 at 12:53 PM
Comment #64Got player that stripper. He can do other things too. 🙂
I meant Trippier, obviously.
Sir Pugalot, the Dutch Bulldog
Aug 4, 2023 at 12:53 PM
Comment #65Anybody South of the Tyne is a southerner. FACT
lesh
Aug 4, 2023 at 12:54 PM
Comment #66AGM
Referencing the likes of Manchester, Liverpool as the North has long got on my wick! Divide England into three portions and even then, they’re more mid country than north. For me, the north of England starts at about Leeds and thereabouts.
ToonDarnSarf
Aug 4, 2023 at 12:54 PM
Comment #67Pug – I’ll be up for a round of golf in the NE next time I get up for a Toon game. Possibly Palace if I can get a ticket.
ToonDarnSarf
Aug 4, 2023 at 12:55 PM
Comment #68Mancs and scousers consider themselves as northerners. Daft to say otherwise. NE is different, so why not just say that?
lesh
Aug 4, 2023 at 12:56 PM
Comment #69Pugalot
If you’d said those south of the Tyne aren’t proper Geordies you might be nearer the mark.
ToonDarnSarf
Aug 4, 2023 at 12:57 PM
Comment #70Been to Manchester and Liverpool a few times. Wouldn’t want to live in either city.
Sir Pugalot, the Dutch Bulldog
Aug 4, 2023 at 12:58 PM
Comment #71Legolas, you were lucky. I got a speeding ticket there, doing 60 in a 50 on an empty dual carriage way. Buggers had one mobile camera van, got past that, then another 1/2 mile down the road. Suckered!
2nd of September I get to survive 2 hours of sanctimonious rubbish. A speed awareness course? I knew how fast I was driving!
DrGloom
Aug 4, 2023 at 12:58 PM
Comment #72TDS – under the new woke laws, they can identify themselves as whatever they want … doesn’t make it reality though 😀
lesh
Aug 4, 2023 at 12:59 PM
Comment #73Pugalot
#69 doesn’t read as I’d intended and I can’t be bothered to rewrite it.
🙄
Sir Pugalot, the Dutch Bulldog
Aug 4, 2023 at 1:00 PM
Comment #74PS, my last offence was March 2013.
Mister Tuff
Aug 4, 2023 at 1:01 PM
Comment #75The Toon – voted the best night out venue in the UK.
https://www.get-licensed.co.uk/get-daily/britains-best-night-out-where-in-the-uk-offers-the-best-nightlife-experience-in-2023/
lesh
Aug 4, 2023 at 1:04 PM
Comment #76Aye Tuff
Newcastle’s up there with York, Warrington and Telford………
Manchester, London and the other big cities can Eat their hearts out.
Mister Tuff
Aug 4, 2023 at 1:04 PM
Comment #77Fashion in Manchester/Liverpool/London are shell suits, hoodies and robber masks.
Sir Pugalot, the Dutch Bulldog
Aug 4, 2023 at 1:04 PM
Comment #78TDS. A good idea. I will go to the Stadium of SH Light in a Toon shirt and identify as a Mackem. We are so woke these days I would probably get away with it.
Not sure about the toilet arrangements, do they have them in Dunderland yet?
Sir Pugalot, the Dutch Bulldog
Aug 4, 2023 at 1:06 PM
Comment #79Tuff @ 75. It can’t be that good. I don’t remember the blog meet up, neither does Magic nor Ruddy. The Rabbit does insist we were there.
Mister Tuff
Aug 4, 2023 at 1:07 PM
Comment #80Was it Bruno or Big Joe photographed up a Bolam Lakes with a kiddie and dog walking on a path next to the lake.
Much better having a day out there with nature as opposed to getting poisoned with car fumes in London.