Of course, just when you think that Mike Ashley's unpopularity with the Newcastle United fanbase has bottomed out and just couldn't get any lower, it usually does. However the only man who has offered him any kind of lifeline is Chris Hughton, who has resolutely chosen to ignore wherever possible almost everything at Newcastle that [. Click to continue reading...

After almost three injury-ravaged years, Dean Ashton, as the back pages suggest, will finally hang up his boots and retire. The player who was once seen as a unique cross between the playing styles of Alan Shearer and Teddy Sheringham, will never fully fulfill his potential as a top-class footballer. Click to continue reading...

It was a weekend to remember for Jermain Defoe as the Spurs striker became the first player in Premiership history to bag 5 goals in a single half. His quintet of strikes against Wigan trumps the 5 notched by super-strikers� Andy Cole and Alan Shearer who both performed a similar feat last decade but needed the full 90 minutes to do so.

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£20,000 fine. Four match ban. Two of them being suspended ones.

Also, he has to give up his car, and his house for a year. Go to an island, and survive for a month along with other famous British celebrities. He is banned from drinking wine for the rest of his life. And will have to listen to Alan Shearer's rendition of Baa Baa Black Sheep for five hours.

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The Offside's Main Page decided to compile a list of the "100 Best Players of the Decade." I thought it might be of some interest to you, especially since Arsenal is out of action for a couple of weeks. It was voted on by all of the Offside's bloggers, as well as readers. I will say that I thought the criteria was a little vague it was simply to name the 20 best players who played in the decade.

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According to the Mirror, Newcastle United legend Alan Shearer is available to manage other clubs with immediate effect. Shearer was of course pointedly ignored for the Toon job despite his 8-week temporary appointment being called "the best decision I ever made" by Ashley. Even then though, Shearer was still in with a chance as it was [. Click to continue reading...

! Article Start >Well here it is, the third and final chapter of my first term, first team player review. And not a moment too soon it would seem, to take the focus off Llambias' less than convincing SSN interview. The No.9 shirt is almost as synonymous with Newcastle United, as St James' Park, the black and white [. Click to continue reading...

In Family Guy:

Chris Griffin: Dad, was there ever a real city of New Orleans?"
Peter Griffin: "No one knows, Chris. No one knows."

It is interesting to see anyone and everyone walk into Pompey, buy up the club, and walk out two days later. The revolving door has led to Pompey being dead last in the Premiership, player wages being delayed, and transfer fees that have yet to be paid two years later.

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There comes a point at which inept management crosses an invisible rubicon and passes into something even more depressing and worrying. There can be little arguing with the case for the prosecution. Ashley's time in charge of the club has been an unmitigated disaster. He oversaw relegation from the Premier League when the club had the fifth highest wage budget, has managed to almost the entire support of the club and managed to fail to sell the club when it had a buyer which seemed keen to tie up a deal to secure the purchase of it from him.

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Alan Shearer says he would still love the Newcastle United manager's job but is also prepared to consider managing other clubs. At the end of last season it seemed almost certain that Shearer would be given the Toon job despite failing to keep us in the Premier League. Ashley had described employing Shearer as 'the best [. Click to continue reading...

If Alan Shearer comes back to manage Newcastle soon,� there's one thing you can be sure of that Alan will immediately put discipline and pride back into the Newcastle club. Alan Shearer - still wants the manager job It hurts Alan, just like it hurts other stalwart Newcastle fans, to see how the club is [. Click to continue reading...

First things first holy crap, who let him near guns?!?!?!?!?!???!

We all know about Joey Barton's long history as an awful awul person, but it's starting to look like he's becoming a new man one who doesn't use teammate's eyeballs as ashtrays or go to jail for fighting outside a McDonald's.

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Cheer Up Alan Shearer's Top 10 TV Football Moments
1. Goooooooooooooooooolllllllllllllllllll
It would be fair to say that Kelvin Koogan's 'love it!' rant on Sky was our nailed on Number One clip when we sat down to formulate this list. That was, however, until I was sent this cfootage. Click to continue reading...

John Carver was Bobby Robson's assistant at a time when Newcastle were in the top four in the Premier League and in the European Champions League. John Carver- worried about Newcastle longer term John, who was widely expected to be an assistant to Alan Shearer if Alan was appointed as permanent Newcastle manager in the [. Click to continue reading...

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Since football official restarted back in 1992, a team called Blackburn Rovers have always been there, with the exception of two seasons in the wilderness.

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Alan Shearer reveals that whilst he'd take the Newcastle United manager's job today if it was offered, he's prepared to get on with life in the interim. With Barry Moat's bid - or indeed anyone else's bid - looking less likely to succeed as time goes on, Shearer's chances of becoming Newcastle manager this season are [. Click to continue reading...

The amiable� Mike Ashley has not spoken to Alan Shearer since May 26th, which was the the day the Newcastle clueless owner had said: "Bringing Alan Shearer back to Newcastle United was the best decision I have made." Alan Shearer - Newcastle are doing well so far Mike Ashley had said he wants out at Newcastle, [. Click to continue reading...

Nicky Butt has recently called for Chris Hughton to be made permanent manager of Newcastle United, but what are the options? Apparently Derek Llambias will shortly be reviewing the positions of Hughton and Calderwood in light of our great start and Nicky Butt hopes that their positions are made permanent until the end of the season. Click to continue reading...

It's hard to argue with Chris Hughton's record or the job he has done at Newcastle 4 months and he has been rewarded with successive Championship Manager of the Month awards. Chris Hughton just carries on as usual If this record had been achieved by say Alan Shearer, everybody would have been gushing what a [. Click to continue reading...

Cheer Up Alan Shearer's Top 10 TV Football Moments
2. "You Can Tell Him Now - He'll Be Watching It....."
I doubt there's anyone outside the Newcastle United community who would deny that this now infamous television interview deserves its place in the annals of TV footballing folklore. Click to continue reading...

The only reason I'm posting this article is because I read three articles in succession about somebody 'hailing' something at Newcastle United. What is it with all this hail? First up there's the Chronicle's Marlon Harewood hails buoyant Newcastle. This is basically about how Hitman Harewood's preconceptions about the Toon were rapidly disproved when he join us [. Click to continue reading...

Well it's been a busy news day for Newcastle United fans today....... Literally nothing of note to write up about except for a slightly tardy mention of Barton's belated 'olive branch' to Alan Shearer, after his admission that there was a falling out. More on the story and Joey's quotes can be found here, but [. Click to continue reading...

In our piece on Joey Barton yesterday, we made the statement that if and when Alan Shearer comes back as the permanent Newcastle manager,� it's 99% certain Joey Barton will leave Newcastle. Alan Shearer - made peace with Joey Barton? Well, with statements made by Joey yesterday afternoon, that may not be the case� any longer. Click to continue reading...

Cheer Up Alan Shearer's Top 10 TV Football Moments
3. Ilunga Mwepu
No disrespect to the intelligent, knowledgeable CUAS readership here, but I bet there's hardly any of you who know who Ilunga Mwepu is.
In the 1970s he played his club football for TP Mazembe and he now lives in Malta, where he is an assistant coach in the Adelaide Cini Championship with Girgenti Athletic. Click to continue reading...

With the air thick with takeover talk, real or imaginary, now feels like a good time to throw in a spanner, or two. It is widely acknowledged that, under impossible circumstances, Chris Hughton and his staff have done an astounding job thus far managing Newcastle United. With a pre-season filled with doom-laden mutterings of "Doing [. Click to continue reading...

With the news that Barry Moat has finally made his official bid for the Newcastle club, what will that mean if he is successful? Alan Shearer - does his appointment mean Hughton gets sacked? We are hearing that Alan Shearer will be appointed manager if Barry Moat is successful with his bid, and we are now being [. Click to continue reading...

Both the Daily Mirror and the Times are reporting that Barry Moat has launched a formal takeover bid for Newcastle United. Moat is said to have significant financial muscle from American investors and has received guarantees from Barclays that he will be given working capital to run the club.

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After much speculation about who will be Newcastle United's next manager, Alan Shearer has finally been appointed ... ... as Deputy Lord Lieutenant of Northumberland. His job will be to stand in for the Lord Lieutenant of Northumberland - currently the Duchess of Northumberland - when she's away slaying insurgents elsewhere. Click to continue reading...

Cheer Up Alan Shearer's Top 10 TV Football Moments
4. All The Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay
John Motson is 64, you know. If you'd ask me, mind, I'd have said that due to his increasingly inconsistent commentary he was nearer 75. We love a bit of Motty, but he's been gradually losing the plot as he has aged, and his increasingly hyperbolic commentary has led me to race into my living room at many a time only for someone to have won a boring corner. Click to continue reading...

Ryan Giggs is rolling back the years. He is going to be 36 in November. But like Benjamin Button, he seems like he is only getting younger. You would think we someone as good him, he can't be 35, approaching 36. Coming on as a substitute with the score at 0-0 against Stoke, his impact was priceless.

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Cheer Up Alan Shearer's Top 10 TV Football Moments
6. Broken Nose
The football video industry has been a rich source of income over the years as "celebrities" from Nick Hancock to Gary Lineker host their stocking-filleresque "Football Gaffe" DVDs. These variations on a theme generally feature utterly hilarious moments of people standing on the ball and scoring own goals. Click to continue reading...

When Mike Ashley rode into toon he took the Freddie Shepherd Gang by surprise. Shepherd claims he was ambushed while he lay incapacitated on a hospital bed and before we knew it rumour quickly became fact and Ashley had bought Newcastle United, not exactly with a suitcase full of money but without any of the [. Click to continue reading...

Reports in The Mail and The Mirror are suggesting that Newcastle United may be sold by the end of this week. We've heard it all before of course but one of the newspapers will get it right one day and maybe it's today. Last week Newcastle issued a statement saying that Ashley's £100m asking price has [. Click to continue reading...

The man favoured by Keith Harris of Seymour Pierce to complete the takeover of Newcastle is said to be within days of finalising a deal. George Culkin, one of the most well respected football journalists, has reported that one of the potential obstacles to the takeover going through, the club's ongoing saga with former boss Kevin Keegan, will no longer stand in the way of Newcastle's future.

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The man favoured by Keith Harris of Seymour Pierce to complete the takeover of Newcastle is said to be within days of finalising a deal. George Culkin, one of the most well respected football journalists, has reported that one of the potential obstacles to the takeover going through, the club's ongoing saga with former boss Kevin Keegan, will no longer stand in the way of Newcastle's future.

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