True Faith

Ah, Burnley in the early summer sunshine. Is there any finer place to be? Don’t answer that. Four games to go, European qualification in the balance – time for Eddie’s boys to pull out an actual away performance. Lee Forster has your preview musings. *** So, here we are then…the ‘business end’ of the season....

Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition. Monty Python lines get into lots of comedy, but rarely into rom-com films as chat up lines. Those of you who like me sat through late 90s classic Sliding Doors will remember the scenes. A life cut in two moments on to two different paths. Alas, this is pretty much...

Just last week, Matthew Philpotts presented us with an analysis of the “squad cost” approach to financial fair play. This week it’s “anchoring”. Come on, keep up! Turns out that’s not all it’s cracked up to be either. *** Anchoring… Nope, not what David McCreery and Cheik Tiote used to do for our midfield, but...

The news we’ve all, well almost all, have been waiting for. Confirmation that the club intend to extend St James’ Park rather than move has come via an exclusive from The Telegraph’s Luke Edwards. Did it actually say that though?It does, but without trying to dampen people’s spirits it’s important to read past the headline...

While many have seen our transfer business last summer as something of a disaster, Ed Cole argues that signings like Lewis Hall point the way forward to success. The era of big money vanity signings should be consigned to history. *** It hasn’t been a great few weeks for football purists. FA Cup replays were...

Well, some things are as predictable as the sun coming up in the morning. Newcastle United will conspire with themselves to make any game, even against the team that can’t stop conceding, look difficult. Today they managed to make it look as if they were playing 1970 Brazil for periods of the first half. The...

SCOTT ROBSON is your man with the scores on the doors… Martin Dubravka – 6. Made a couple of decent saves from Brereton Diaz, but didn’t have a lot to do despite us being overrun at times in the first half. I bet he was secretly disappointed he didn’t get the chance to save a...

Eeesh, where to begin? I would like to preface this preview with a disclaimer that I was unable to watch Wednesday’s match and couldn’t even get it on the radio. After about 15 minutes of trying, I gave up and watched the deeply amusing Merseyside derby. I can’t stand those Scouse Mackems as much as...

November 25, 1989. Football League Division Two NEWCASTLE UNITED 2, SHEFFIELD UNITED 0 Gallacher 7, Quinn 37 Att: 27,170 NEWCASTLE: Burridge, Stimson, Kristensen, Scott, Ranson, Brock, Dillon, Gallacher (Fereday), O’Brien, McGhee, Quinn. SHEFFIELD UNITED: Tracey, Stancliffe, Hill, Morris, Rostron, Booker, Lake (Webster), Gannon, Bryson, Deane, Francis (Duffield). *** It’s probably a knocking bet that this...

On another sobering midweek night in London, Emma Thompson was in the Arthur Wait stand for True Faith. It wasn’t pretty. *** “PALACE SAINT-GERMAIN!!” was the cry from the home faithful as we trudged out of a freezing Selhurst Park last night. Witty enough, lads – and not entirely without merit based on what we’d...