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France manager Laurent Blanc has said that Newcastle’s Ben Arfa has played himself back in contention for the French squad,  for the Euro 2012 Championships to be held in Poland and the Ukraine mostly in June, with the final being played on July 1st. Ben Arfa in action yesterday challenging French compatriot Gael Clichy Ben Arfa is now 25, and won the last [...]

Alan Pardew was more than pleased with the way he and his players were greeted by the Newcastle crowd on their lap of honor at the end of  the game yesterday – even though the lads lost 2-0 to Manchester City. Alan Pardew – appreciative of crowd after the game Alan Pardew has had a tremendous first [...]

There’s still surprisingly everything to play for in the last game of the season next Sunday at Goodison Park. Yaya Toure sels victory with goal in 89th minute While Everton are a good side and playing well, they will not be as difficult as Manchester City were yesterday, and Newcastle will be looking for all 3 points, but whether they can get them or not is a [...]

In retrospect, after we got over the pain of watching the game,  Tottenham looked a very good side yesterday against Newcastle. Danny Simpson tries to tackle Emmanuel Adebayor Of course they were helped big time when most of the Newcastle players started the game seemingly in a deep sleep, and we were two goals down in the [...]

Mike Ashley visited Newcastle on Thursday and he was seen at the game yesterday looking happy enough – when Newcastle were 5-0 down. Mike Ashley – in Newcastle last Thursday That’s more than some of us were feeling, after Newcastle’s horror show in the first half, but it’s only one game and Newcastle are still in 6th place in [...]

Nothing was seen of Ben Arfa yesterday, even though Newcastle were hammered 5-0 by Tottenham. Ben Arfa – future at Newcastle looks a little murky right now And Alan Pardew played all his substitutes,  but Ben Arfa was not one of them,  as he gave Shane Ferguson, Dan Gosling and Peter Lovenkrands run-outs in the second half. The last [...]

For the second time in four league games Newcastle  conceded  five goals yesterday. Adebayor looked unplayable yesterday and Saha wasn’t bad either And four of those were in the first half at White Lane yesterday, and we conceded five in a similar collapse at Craven Cottage  three weeks ago, so where did our strong and tough defense go? [...]

Alan Pardew was interviewed by nufcTV after the game, and an emotional Newcastle manager said he he would take responsibility for the defeat. Alan Pardew – tales responsibility for defeat Alan  said he thought 4-4-2 was probably too much of an attacking formation, and once Newcastle had let in a couple of goals so quickly,  we were in big trouble. This is what Alan said: “My [...]

Newcastle were completely outplayed, outfought and outclassed in the game at White Hart Lane today and were two down after only 6 minutes, and it got no better,  as the Newcastle side were  embarrassed and embarrassing – they were that bad. This is not the first time that Newcastle have collapsed and they did the same thing at Fulham when they allowed five goals in during a [...]

This afternoon’s game at White Hart Lane may be the most difficult game Newcastle have through the end of the season. Tim Krul – all pressure is on Tottenham today And Tim Krul, who is one of the best goalkeepers in the Premier League this season, has said today there is no pressure on Newcastle, and it’s all on Tottenham, [...]

We heard about a week ago that Mike Ashley was willing to put another £15M into the development of the youngsters on Tyneside. Mehdi Abeid – top youngster at Newcastle Of course the first thing is to have a good scouting network that can spot top youngsters that can be developed on Tyneside. And the plain facts are that too many of the youngsters brought in [...]