Well after Worky posting that wonderful photo of one of my all time favourite players, I felt we
couldn't leave it at that. So, being a little indulgent, I wanted to share with you my
reminiscences of a great Newcastle United footballer (and gorgeous guy), one of the best exports to
make it out of [.
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! Article Start >Alan Oliver is running an article in The People claiming that all the money
from the stadium naming rights will go straight to Chris Hughton to spend on the Newcastle United
squad. Ashley has apparently insisted the naming rights won't go cheap and he's looking for £6m a
season before he'll sell off [.
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The news that Mike Ashley is seeking to sell off the naming rights to St. James' Park is up there
with Ken Bates' electric fence at Chelsea, Colin Moynihan's supporters' ID cards and Newcastle's
own recruitment of Dennis Wise as one of the crassest notions in football history. Until now, I
think most outside the Gallowgate have looked on with some bemusement at the Geordie fans'
vilification of
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Yesterday's review of the current squad, took a look at the Newcastle defence, an area that this
season we've been surprisingly strong in, given our poor reputation in recent years. Tonight looks
at arguably the fulcrum of a successful team, the midfield, the place that could and should control
a game and dictate the style of [.
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According to The Chronicle, Newcastle United are tracking a 21 year old striker from Norway. The
striker is a lad called Joakim Rudolfsen and he plays for Norway's famous third-tier Mo IL side.
Apparently he was first spotted by Dennis Wise and has continued to be tracked by Norman Wooster,
our Scandinavian scout.
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Chris Hughton will not have to work for a Director of Football at Newcastle, but since it failed
dramatically when Dennis Wise was here (what a disaster), that's hardly surprising even for Mike
Ashley. Mike Ashley no Director Of Football A Newcastle source told the Evening Chronicle today:
"Chris has done a fantastic job [.
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QPR Report 19 October @ 02:01 AM EST
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Checkout the TWO QPR Reports! This QPR Report site.
And, the second combination messageboard and quasi-blog QPR Report Messageboard. If you're
interested in constantly-updated news re anything QPR-related and also QPR nostalgia, this site has
both - along with assorted eclectic non-QPR football material. Click to continue reading...
Speaking in an inverview with Ray Stubbs in his new role as a pundit for ESPN, former Newcastle
United manager, Kevin Keegan, spoke in some depth about his £2 million pound payday from the club,
and his possible future in football. When asked by 'Stubbsy', "would you ever consider returning to
a club you love [.
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]In the wake of the Newcastle United / Mike Ashley / Keegan tribunal fiasco, the Daily Mail
published a story asking if a Nacho Gonzalez video on 'YouTube' was the one Kevin Keegan was
supposedly asked to watch by Dennis Wise? A video which was, supposedly, the only thing he had to
go on [...]
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Thanks to Startdust for posting the breaking news about Keegan winning his constructive dismissal
case against Newcastle United. However, I just thought I'd try to distil it into something more
manageable and article-shaped. In the simplest terms Keegan was constructively dismissed and has
been awarded £2m as a result.
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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 [.
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Dennis Wise has finally broken his silence over his controversial reign as Director of Football at
St James' Park. Kevin Keegan is currently in a legal battle with Mike Ashley over the events at
Newcastle last September, and we xepct a decision from the tribnal this week. Apparently both sides
have already agreed to accept [.
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Ollie, I like you a lot. Among other positive qualities, you can put sentences together in more
than just one way, which makes you instantly more readable than 99% of soccer bloggers plying their
trade to an American audience. But today's post on Adebayor?
So if the Devil has the best tunes, does he have the best footballers?
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"Is this where I'm supposed to point?"Whatever happened to football's good, clean heroes? I wrote a 'Top 10 Popular Premier League
Players' list in August, and really struggled to come up with XI players I could warm to.
These days, it seems we just don't like to like our footballers very much; heroes have been overrun
by villains.
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It was about a year ago today, just after the 2008 summer transfer window closed, when Newcastle
United went into the free-fall it has yet to recover from. To be fair, the club wasn't exactly
setting the world alight before that and, arguably, the last period of stability ended when Sir
Bobby Robson was given the [.
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One of the things that started Newcastle dramatic decline over the last 12 months that has seen us
become a second division club, is the failure of Dennis Wise and others, to bring in sufficient
players in the last few days of the transfer especially the last day which was Monday, 1st
September [.
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Soccerblog 09 August @ 08:50 AM EST
I had been predicting this for quite sometime. Mike Ashley would face tremendous problems
selling of Newcastle at his asking price.
Barry Moat the businessman interested in buying out Newcastle has balked at Ashley's valuation
of £100m. Moat is offering £70m. The two sides were looking to resume negotiations this Friday
and it was rumoured that the club would eventually go for £80-£90m.
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SoccerLens 06 August @ 11:32 AM EST
It has been easy to laugh at Newcastle United in recent months, not that it makes it right of
course. From Kevin Keegan's typically sudden departure, the frankly ridiculous resurrection of Joe
Kinnear's top flight career, to the second coming of Alan Shearer, via Mike Ashley downing pints in
a replica shirt, Dennis Wise somehow qualifying to be a Football Director, Chris Hughton taking
charge of the team on an almost fortnightly basis, and finally, horror upon horror, relegation from
the Premier League after a sixteen year stay at English football's top table.
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Newcastle United centre-back, Sebastien Bassong, has been in North London having a medical for
Tottenham Hotspur, as the final parts of a deal which has been mooted for some time are thrashed
out. The fee is thought to be around £8-10 million, though Bassong was signed by Newcastle's then
Director of Football, Dennis Wise, [.
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What Bobby Robson thinks is taken to heart by Newcastle fans and today his confidant Bob Harris, in
the Sun, has said Bobby never blamed Mike Ashley for the demise created at Newcastle United. Dennis
Wise - Bobby blames this man for his club's demise But rather Bobby always thought it was caused by
those people Mike [.
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Can't you take a hint?
Mr Ashley, the season is less than a week away and your club looks in more of mess than ever.
This must be the worse of worse nightmares for every Newcastle fan no manager, poor players and no
buyer in sight. The talk of failed takeover after failed consortium hinders any sale of Newcastle
United Football Club as the season lays a week away from the first challenge at The Hawthorns, in
the shape of promotion hopefuls West Bromwich Albion.
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Millwall Football Club is an English football team based in Bermondsey in the London Borough of
Southwark, South East London. They are nicknamed The Lions and currently play in Football League
One where they finished the 2008/09 season in 5th position. Notable former Milwall players include
the likes of Tim Cahill, Teddy Sheringham, Dennis Wise and Kasey Keller.
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Once upon a time, comparisons were made between the clubs based on positive notes such as the club
history, the passion of the fans and their desire for success diluted with a realistic and humorous
outlook on the game. Instead, the familiarity these days is apparent for a different reason. It
doesn't take a genius [.
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Well somewhat predictably, one of the top stories today has been United's 6 -1 hammering by lowly
Leyton Orient, a game which I attended and wrote a match report about. Our caretaker manager, Chris
Hughton was right to describe the game in the post match interview as "disappointing and
embarrassing" , with Colloccini, Enrique [.
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The men Sven won't want to emulate 1. Dennis Wise Not just a director of football, but Executive
Director (Football). Regardless, the rat-alike failed to set the world alight with his recruitment
policy. Since he was younger, less experienced and less famous than Newcastle's then manager, Kevin
Keegan, you do have to question Mike Ashley's logic in [.
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goalpost.tv 23 June @ 05:05 PM EST
First of all I must apologise for the bad pun in the title, but like my title Newcastle
United football club have became a bad joke under Chairman Mike Ashley.
The replica kit wearing, pint drinking, apparent Tottenham Hotspur fan took over
at a club in a city that lives and breathes football.
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Once upon a time there was a wicked footballing wizard, The Mighty Mackam.
Wherever he went, The Mighty Mackam spread malevolence and evil.
But he reserved his most evil curses and spells for his most hated club - Newcastle United.
In one season alone, he sent them 2 fake Messiahs and a manager whose vocabulary was developed in a
public toilet.
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Even though the club seems to be adrift in the ocean right now, we are glad to see some things are
still moving ahead at Newcastle. Xisco - will be sold this summer And we hear that Spanish striker
Xisco, who was a last minute signing by Dennis Wise on September 1st, and done without Kevin
Keegan's [.
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