http://www.geordiesport.com/newcastle_united_football_club.html en-uk info@geordiesport.com info@geordiesport.com Geordie Sport Newcastle United Football Club Section. http://www.geordiesport.com/football/newcastle_united_football_club/million_miles_away_-_everton_3_newcastle_1.html Well, we hoped to finish the season in style... 12 May 2008 http://www.geordiesport.com/football/newcastle_united_football_club/million_miles_away_-_everton_3_newcastle_1.html http://www.geordiesport.com/football/newcastle_united_football_club/different_league_newcastle_united_0_chelsea_2.html With the vast improvement in form of late, here was the chance to see if we could maintain it against one of the big boys. 6 May 2008 http://www.geordiesport.com/football/newcastle_united_football_club/different_league_newcastle_united_0_chelsea_2.html http://www.geordiesport.com/football/newcastle_united_football_club/luck_as_well.html West Ham 2 Newcastle United 2 28 April 2008 http://www.geordiesport.com/football/newcastle_united_football_club/luck_as_well.html http://www.geordiesport.com/football/newcastle_united_football_club/a_goal_fit_to_win_any_game.html Newcastle United 2 Sunderland 0 21 April 2008 http://www.geordiesport.com/football/newcastle_united_football_club/a_goal_fit_to_win_any_game.html http://www.geordiesport.com/football/newcastle_united_football_club/newcastle2_fulham_0.html Newcastle 2 Fulham 0 24 March 2008 http://www.geordiesport.com/football/newcastle_united_football_club/newcastle2_fulham_0.html http://www.geordiesport.com/football/newcastle_united_football_club/better_but_it_had_to_be.html Birmingham City 1 Newcastle United 1 18 March 2008 http://www.geordiesport.com/football/newcastle_united_football_club/better_but_it_had_to_be.html http://www.geordiesport.com/football/newcastle_united_football_club/lucky_to_get_nil.html Liverpool 3 Newcastle United 0 10 March 2008 http://www.geordiesport.com/football/newcastle_united_football_club/lucky_to_get_nil.html http://www.geordiesport.com/football/newcastle_united_football_club/unlucky_yes.html Newcastle United 0 Blackburn 1 4 March 2008 http://www.geordiesport.com/football/newcastle_united_football_club/unlucky_yes.html http://www.geordiesport.com/football/newcastle_united_football_club/ncl_scary_scary_scary.html Newcastle United 1 Manchester United 5 26 February 2008 http://www.geordiesport.com/football/newcastle_united_football_club/ncl_scary_scary_scary.html http://www.geordiesport.com/football/newcastle_united_football_club/oh_dear_again_and_again.html Aston Villa 4 Newcastle United 1 14 February 2008 http://www.geordiesport.com/football/newcastle_united_football_club/oh_dear_again_and_again.html http://www.geordiesport.com/football/newcastle_united_football_club/winning_on_the_home_front.html Sunderland 2 Wigan 0 14 February 2008 http://www.geordiesport.com/football/newcastle_united_football_club/winning_on_the_home_front.html http://www.geordiesport.com/football/newcastle_united_football_club/ncl_better.html Newcastle 1 Middlesbrough 1 4 February 2008 http://www.geordiesport.com/football/newcastle_united_football_club/ncl_better.html http://www.geordiesport.com/football/newcastle_united_football_club/newcastle_deja_vue.html Arsenal 3 Newcastle 0 30 January 2008 http://www.geordiesport.com/football/newcastle_united_football_club/newcastle_deja_vue.html http://www.geordiesport.com/football/newcastle_united_football_club/no_shock_here.html Arsenal 3 Newcastle United 0 28 January 2008 http://www.geordiesport.com/football/newcastle_united_football_club/no_shock_here.html http://www.geordiesport.com/football/newcastle_united_football_club/well_it_had_to_happen.html You would have to be a real sceptic to bet on a goalless draw on King Kev's return to The Toon, but that's the way it panned out. 21 January 2008 http://www.geordiesport.com/football/newcastle_united_football_club/well_it_had_to_happen.html http://www.geordiesport.com/football/newcastle_united_football_club/newcastle1.html Newcastle 4 Stoke City 1 17 January 2008 http://www.geordiesport.com/football/newcastle_united_football_club/newcastle1.html http://www.geordiesport.com/football/newcastle_united_football_club/shambolic.html Manchester United 6 Newcastle United 0 14 January 2008 http://www.geordiesport.com/football/newcastle_united_football_club/shambolic.html http://www.geordiesport.com/football/newcastle_united_football_club/one_point_in_twelve.html Newcastle United 0 Man. City 2 3 January 2008 http://www.geordiesport.com/football/newcastle_united_football_club/one_point_in_twelve.html http://www.geordiesport.com/football/newcastle_united_football_club/nearly.html Chelsea 2 Newcastle United 1 31 December 2007 http://www.geordiesport.com/football/newcastle_united_football_club/nearly.html http://www.geordiesport.com/football/newcastle_united_football_club/newcastle_oh_dear_again.html So the Premier League's whipping boys had only had one victory all season--against The Toon. 25 December 2007 http://www.geordiesport.com/football/newcastle_united_football_club/newcastle_oh_dear_again.html http://www.geordiesport.com/football/newcastle_united_football_club/no_anaesthetic_required.html Fulham 0 Newcastle United 1 18 December 2007 http://www.geordiesport.com/football/newcastle_united_football_club/no_anaesthetic_required.html http://www.geordiesport.com/football/newcastle_united_football_club/newcastle_relief_beyond_belief.html Newcastle United 2 Birmingham City 1 10 December 2007 http://www.geordiesport.com/football/newcastle_united_football_club/newcastle_relief_beyond_belief.html http://www.geordiesport.com/football/newcastle_united_football_club/blackburn_rovers_3_newcastle_united_1.html Blackburn Rovers 3 Newcastle United 1 3 December 2007 http://www.geordiesport.com/football/newcastle_united_football_club/blackburn_rovers_3_newcastle_united_1.html http://www.geordiesport.com/football/newcastle_united_football_club/newcastle_scoused.html Newcastle United 0 Liverpool 3 (But could have been 7 !!!) 26 November 2007 http://www.geordiesport.com/football/newcastle_united_football_club/newcastle_scoused.html http://www.geordiesport.com/football/newcastle_united_football_club/sunderland_derby_day.html Sunderland 1 Newcastle 1 12 November 2007 http://www.geordiesport.com/football/newcastle_united_football_club/sunderland_derby_day.html http://www.geordiesport.com/football/newcastle_united_football_club/derby_day.html As you expect in the Tyne-Wear derby it was a high octane affair 12 November 2007 http://www.geordiesport.com/football/newcastle_united_football_club/derby_day.html http://www.geordiesport.com/football/newcastle_united_football_club/ncl_oh_dear.html Newcastle United 1 Portsmouth 4 4 November 2007 http://www.geordiesport.com/football/newcastle_united_football_club/ncl_oh_dear.html http://www.geordiesport.com/football/newcastle_united_football_club/oh_dear.html When you lose a goal in the first ten minutes it makes it difficult. If you lose two in the first ten minutes it makes it doubly difficult. If you lose three.............. 4 November 2007 http://www.geordiesport.com/football/newcastle_united_football_club/oh_dear.html http://www.geordiesport.com/football/newcastle_united_football_club/oh_newcastle.html We have started winning at home. Great. So, how come we cannot take this winning form to places like Derby and Reading. 3 November 2007 http://www.geordiesport.com/football/newcastle_united_football_club/oh_newcastle.html http://www.geordiesport.com/football/newcastle_united_football_club/toon_earn_their_spurs.html Newcastle United 3 Tottenham Hotspur 1 23 October 2007 http://www.geordiesport.com/football/newcastle_united_football_club/toon_earn_their_spurs.html http://www.geordiesport.com/football/newcastle_united_football_club/toon_goin_up.html When I looked at the team sheets and saw the two central midfielders for Newcastle were Butt and Geremi and for Everton, Carsley and Neville, defensive-minded one and all, straight away I thought it was all going to be so negative. 8 October 2007 http://www.geordiesport.com/football/newcastle_united_football_club/toon_goin_up.html http://www.geordiesport.com/football/newcastle_united_football_club/mancity_newcastle.html Early kick-off. Chance to go second in the table before the big boys play... 1 October 2007 http://www.geordiesport.com/football/newcastle_united_football_club/mancity_newcastle.html http://www.geordiesport.com/football/newcastle_united_football_club/tishoo_arsenal_we_fall_down.html It would be easy to condemn Newcastle for failing to beat Arsenal "reserves" in the Carling Cup tie but I really do believe that we should be giving the utmost praise to Arsenal and Arsene Wenger and his staff. 27 September 2007 http://www.geordiesport.com/football/newcastle_united_football_club/tishoo_arsenal_we_fall_down.html http://www.geordiesport.com/football/newcastle_united_football_club/newcastle_west_ham_hammered.html Maybe it was a bit flattering but, after Monday night's disastrous performance at the apparently already doomed Derby County, we will accept anything. 24 September 2007 http://www.geordiesport.com/football/newcastle_united_football_club/newcastle_west_ham_hammered.html http://www.geordiesport.com/football/newcastle_united_football_club/toon_countyd_out.html Well it wasn't a pretty sight! Don't tell me we are going to go back to the "giving the big teams a good game" and giving poor performances against the so-called "lesser teams". 19 September 2007 http://www.geordiesport.com/football/newcastle_united_football_club/toon_countyd_out.html http://www.geordiesport.com/football/newcastle_united_football_club/newcastle_wigan.html Sitting in the sun outside a pub in Menorca watching The Toon on a big screen. That's the way to do it!! 7 September 2007 http://www.geordiesport.com/football/newcastle_united_football_club/newcastle_wigan.html http://www.geordiesport.com/football/newcastle_united_football_club/barnsley_chopped.html Michael Owen's Goals returned at last as his 57th minute effort set us on the way to victory over Barnsley and a place in the Third Round of the Carling Cup. 30 August 2007 http://www.geordiesport.com/football/newcastle_united_football_club/barnsley_chopped.html http://www.geordiesport.com/football/newcastle_united_football_club/newcastle_equal_honours.html A great end to end match with three good goals and one great one. Great for the neutrals but who wants to be neutral!! 28 August 2007 http://www.geordiesport.com/football/newcastle_united_football_club/newcastle_equal_honours.html http://www.geordiesport.com/football/newcastle_united_football_club/hasta_la_villa.html I have been to some nil-nil games and enjoyed it because chances have come and gone and just because there were no goals did not make it a bad game. Unfortunately this match did not fall into that category! 20 August 2007 http://www.geordiesport.com/football/newcastle_united_football_club/hasta_la_villa.html http://www.geordiesport.com/football/newcastle_united_football_club/toon_put_bolton_the_door.html We were all waiting with baited breathe to see how the season would start. Like me I am sure that you knew things would get better, if only because they had to since they were so bad at the end of last season - but how much better? 12 August 2007 http://www.geordiesport.com/football/newcastle_united_football_club/toon_put_bolton_the_door.html http://www.geordiesport.com/football/newcastle_united_football_club/clean_sheet_toon.html Well the Toon followed up their 2-0 win against Juventus with another win, this time by 1-0, against another top Italian side, Sampdoria. 6 August 2007 http://www.geordiesport.com/football/newcastle_united_football_club/clean_sheet_toon.html http://www.geordiesport.com/football/newcastle_united_football_club/newcastle_united_toon_update.html So it looks like Kieron Dyer is about to join his mates Bowyer and Bellamy at West Ham--can you imagine a training session there!? 3 August 2007 http://www.geordiesport.com/football/newcastle_united_football_club/newcastle_united_toon_update.html http://www.geordiesport.com/football/newcastle_united_football_club/luque_luque.html Good win against Celtic but surely this is going to be a bit more difficult, the mighty Juventus at home. 30 July 2007 http://www.geordiesport.com/football/newcastle_united_football_club/luque_luque.html http://www.geordiesport.com/football/newcastle_united_football_club/luque_over_at_him_who_scores.html So the first proper pre-season friendly has come and gone and it resulted in a 4-1 win against Celtic. 29 July 2007 http://www.geordiesport.com/football/newcastle_united_football_club/luque_over_at_him_who_scores.html http://www.geordiesport.com/football/newcastle_united_football_club/newcastle_united_dyer_time_for_toon.html So West Ham are interested in signing Kieron Dyer. 27 July 2007 http://www.geordiesport.com/football/newcastle_united_football_club/newcastle_united_dyer_time_for_toon.html http://www.geordiesport.com/football/newcastle_united_football_club/newcastle_at_last-a_proper_game.html Well, having gone through the "necessaries" of a couple of games against lower league teams, in this case Hartlepool and Carlisle, now we are looking at "proper" games. 26 July 2007 http://www.geordiesport.com/football/newcastle_united_football_club/newcastle_at_last-a_proper_game.html http://www.geordiesport.com/football/newcastle_united_football_club/toon_beat_pools.html Well, here we go again! First proper match of the season for Newcastle and we win 3-1 at Hartlepool. 18 July 2007 http://www.geordiesport.com/football/newcastle_united_football_club/toon_beat_pools.html http://www.geordiesport.com/football/newcastle_united_football_club/newcastle_united_the_search_goes_on.html Whilst The Stevens Report has cast a bit of a shadow over The Toon, we appear to be continuing our quest (note the pun?) for new players. 20 June 2007 http://www.geordiesport.com/football/newcastle_united_football_club/newcastle_united_the_search_goes_on.html http://www.geordiesport.com/football/newcastle_united_football_club/newcastle_viduka.html So we have indeed signed Mark Viduka... 8 June 2007 http://www.geordiesport.com/football/newcastle_united_football_club/newcastle_viduka.html http://www.geordiesport.com/football/newcastle_united_football_club/newcastle_big_sam_for_transfer_market.html So, Big Sam has started to make his mark already, with the likely outgoing of club skipper Scott Parker. 5 June 2007 http://www.geordiesport.com/football/newcastle_united_football_club/newcastle_big_sam_for_transfer_market.html http://www.geordiesport.com/football/newcastle_united_football_club/bad_bad_and_bad_again.html Well that's it over for another season. "Phew!" I hear you say! Last game of the season, away against the long-since relegated Watford. 13 May 2007 http://www.geordiesport.com/football/newcastle_united_football_club/bad_bad_and_bad_again.html http://www.geordiesport.com/football/newcastle_united_football_club/roeder_nice_lad_wrong_job.html In the end it was inevitable, but Glenn Roeder has departed from his post as manager of Newcastle United. 8 May 2007 http://www.geordiesport.com/football/newcastle_united_football_club/roeder_nice_lad_wrong_job.html http://www.geordiesport.com/football/newcastle_united_football_club/belly_at_the_match.html Thee were rubbish, thee were ‘orrible, thee wor stinkin’ rubbish ‘orrible nae gud loada. And Newcastle wernet much better themselves either! 5 May 2007 http://www.geordiesport.com/football/newcastle_united_football_club/belly_at_the_match.html http://www.geordiesport.com/football/newcastle_united_football_club/newcastle_owen_us_next_season.html It is a sad indictment on The Toon that one of the reasons I wanted to see this game was because I admire the way Reading have gone about their business since coming into The Premiership. 30 April 2007 http://www.geordiesport.com/football/newcastle_united_football_club/newcastle_owen_us_next_season.html http://www.geordiesport.com/football/newcastle_united_football_club/newcastle_united_chelsea_all_to_sea_with_united_penalties.html With Man United only managing a point against a revitalised Middlesbrough the previous day, the stage was set for Chelsea to push themselves right back into serious contention if they could beat The Toon at St. James. 22 April 2007 http://www.geordiesport.com/football/newcastle_united_football_club/newcastle_united_chelsea_all_to_sea_with_united_penalties.html http://www.geordiesport.com/football/newcastle_united_football_club/newcastle_united_pompey_pulverise_toon.html After the away win at Sheffield United we were looking for a run of successes before the end of the season. Keep looking! 14 April 2007 http://www.geordiesport.com/football/newcastle_united_football_club/newcastle_united_pompey_pulverise_toon.html http://www.geordiesport.com/football/newcastle_united_football_club/newcastle_united_toon_sharpen_the_blades.html A win at last and a couple of goals en route. Can we now finish the season on a high? Let's hope so! 7 April 2007 http://www.geordiesport.com/football/newcastle_united_football_club/newcastle_united_toon_sharpen_the_blades.html http://www.geordiesport.com/football/newcastle_united_football_club/newcastle_united_manchester_city_what_is_ganning_on.html A poor game between two poor sides and I think both teams must be happy that there are some bad sides in The Premiership or a spell in The Championship could be pending! 2 April 2007 http://www.geordiesport.com/football/newcastle_united_football_club/newcastle_united_manchester_city_what_is_ganning_on.html http://www.geordiesport.com/football/newcastle_united_football_club/zheng_goes_newcastle_again.html As stand-in for my old mate Bob Moncur as co-commentator for Century Radio, I made my way from London Bridge to Charlton. 18 March 2007 http://www.geordiesport.com/football/newcastle_united_football_club/zheng_goes_newcastle_again.html http://www.geordiesport.com/football/newcastle_united_football_club/toon_dammed_in_holland.html This was the year for us to get that long-awaited trophy. Four goals in the first leg, a two-goal cushion, we will score "over there". 15 March 2007 http://www.geordiesport.com/football/newcastle_united_football_club/toon_dammed_in_holland.html http://www.geordiesport.com/football/newcastle_united_football_club/alk_maark_thum_dae_a_lot_next_week.html After Saturday's "bored to tears" effort against Middlesbrough I have to say that I feared the worst. No more "Mickey Mouse" teams as in earlier rounds. 9 March 2007 http://www.geordiesport.com/football/newcastle_united_football_club/alk_maark_thum_dae_a_lot_next_week.html http://www.geordiesport.com/football/newcastle_united_football_club/boring_boring_boring.html What a disappointment! Here we are, all looking forward to a blood and thunder derby and what do we get? Not a lot! 3 March 2007 http://www.geordiesport.com/football/newcastle_united_football_club/boring_boring_boring.html http://www.geordiesport.com/football/newcastle_united_football_club/war_a_gem_frum_united.html After such a comfortable victory in the first leg this was always going to be a bit of a formality so I wondered if I should go or just watch it on the telly. 22 February 2007 http://www.geordiesport.com/football/newcastle_united_football_club/war_a_gem_frum_united.html http://www.geordiesport.com/football/newcastle_united_football_club/war_e_gem.html Newcastle look forward to the second leg of their UEFA cup tie against the minnows, Belgian side Zulta Waregem, following the very comfortable 3-1 victory in Gent. 15 February 2007 http://www.geordiesport.com/football/newcastle_united_football_club/war_e_gem.html http://www.geordiesport.com/football/newcastle_united_football_club/the_killa_wiv_villa_toon_rope_a_dope.html Ali did it in Zaire now the lads do it at St James’s! Did we deserve to win - of course not! We did win though and that’s three points in the bag; but any more of this and who knows where we will end up. 10 February 2007 http://www.geordiesport.com/football/newcastle_united_football_club/the_killa_wiv_villa_toon_rope_a_dope.html http://www.geordiesport.com/football/newcastle_united_football_club/liverpool_puddled.html Due to a pre-match thunderstorm, there was a pitch inspection and, after a mere six minutes of the match, the Geordie faithful must have been wishing that the ref had not given the go-ahead, because Liverpool were a goal ahead. 10 February 2007 http://www.geordiesport.com/football/newcastle_united_football_club/liverpool_puddled.html http://www.geordiesport.com/football/newcastle_united_football_club/the_miles_starforth_column.html GLENN Roeder and his Newcastle United team thought they'd seen the back of St Andrew's - for a season at least - when they condemned Birmingham City to the Championship late last April. 10 January 2007 http://www.geordiesport.com/football/newcastle_united_football_club/the_miles_starforth_column.html http://www.geordiesport.com/football/newcastle_united_football_club/birmingham_secure_replay.html Here was a match with all the classic ingredients of the F.A. Cup 10 January 2007 http://www.geordiesport.com/football/newcastle_united_football_club/birmingham_secure_replay.html