strong>There aren't many more popular former Newcastle players of recent time, in the minds of my generation, than John Beresford. Johnny '(oooohh Johnny, Johnny)' Beresford was a major part of the squad that Keegan assembled to put us back on the map in the '90s. He's been speaking to Lee Ryder in The Chronicle [. Click to continue reading...

If the latest report from Lee Ryder in the Chronicle is anything to fo by, Newcastle United manager Chris Hughton won't be getting much cash to spend in the January transfer window. Following Keegan's tribunal and the £2m it awarded him, it was speculated that Ashley would give Hughton some of the £8m he had set [. 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...

So far the Premiership old boys are showing their class, occupying the top 3 places. After paying out £2 million compensation to Keegan Newcastle failed to score for the first time this season against Bristol City. Fans can only hope that any takeover, made more likely by the compensation pay out, causes minimum disruption.

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We did warn over the weekend there would be many stories on the Newcastle takeover after Keegan's case against the Tyneside club was settled by the Premier League Tribunal. And it's the Daily Mirror and Simon Bird, that's reporting this morning that City sources have confirmed that a new South African bidder for the club has [. Click to continue reading...

Looks like this guy is doing his best Dr. Emmett Brown impersonation.
You know, the wacky scientist in Back to the Future.
Ahhhh, now you're seeing it.
To the links:

• Rangers win the Old Firm bout 2-1. [Telegraph]
  
• Garber backs Kroenke to buy Arsenal.

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Ever since Mike Ashley first put Newcastle United up for sale there have been rumours of various fan buy-out schemes for the club. The latest of them was probably that Graham Roberts nonsense, which I took a particular dislike to and refused to waste electrons on. However, it seems that the results of the Keegan [. Click to continue reading...

Former Newcastle chairman Freddy Shepherd believes the club and the fans are the victims of the dispute between Keegan and Ashley, and we have to agree with Freddy for once. Freddy Shepherd - fans and club are the losers Shepherd said today: "There are no winners in this case. There are only losers the club and its [. Click to continue reading...

I must admit when I first read the Keegangate tribunal report I was staggered that Keegan had actually claimed £25m from Newcastle United. But as the Keegan-bashers grasped at that one remaining thing to hit him over the head with (I'm thinking about articles like this one in the Daily Mirror) I began to think [. Click to continue reading...

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. Click to continue reading...

Kevein Keegan has released a statement expressing his delight at the tribunal decision. Kevin describes the decision to resign as among the "most difficult" he's ever faced. The full statement reads as follows: "I am delighted that the Premier League Manager's Arbitration Tribunal has today formally announced that it has upheld my claim for wrongful dismissal against Newcastle [. Click to continue reading...

These 3 gadgies sitting on the Tribunal panel finished listening to the respective Keegan and Newcastle United sides of the story on Friday and then wanted to give it the weekend to mull things over. Well they've had the weekend and two days now and we've heard nowt. We simply want to know who won and [. Click to continue reading...

When: Today, 1pm
Where: Founders Field, Pitt Campus
After suffering their first defeat of the season to West Virginia on Friday night, South Florida (5-1-1) will try to rebound this afternoon against the lowly University of Pittsburgh (1-7-0). Pitt is currently enduring a seven match losing streak and has not scored in their last five matches. Click to continue reading...

Looks like the toon hero's getting a bit greedy...

When Keegan left Newcastle back in September, it was expected the club would have to make a pay-out of around the £9m mark, hard enough to take. However, this morning The Daily Star are reporting that Keegan's lawyers are claiming for loss of potential future earnings, claiming the whole episode has damaged his future employment prospects.

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This weeks Geordie Comedy Gold is when the title was lost in the 95/96 season. Sir Alex's mind games had worked and Keegan just cracked, I remember sitting in front of the TV and just watching in amazement. He'd just love it...

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1. Geordie Comedy Gold.

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As we mentioned earlier today, the battle between Keegan and Ashley at the ongoing PL arbitration hearing, is likely to heat up this week. Mike Ashley and daughter we just scored! In Newcastle's corner is well known football lawyer Graham Shear, who is reported to be representing the club at the arbitration hearing. Click to continue reading...

It's the News of the World, so don't take it too seriously, but they claim that Keegan has a bunch of emails that will prove Mike Ashley made his position untenable and he was therefore constructively dismissed. 'Sources close to Keegan' (hmm) claim that the emails will blow Ashley's case out of the water. Click to continue reading...

Links to click after you enjoy this bit of skill from Marseille's Mamadou Niang... Champions League highlights and reaction (CL Offside) Top 5 playmakers in the world right now* (FootyTube) Keegan + camer = quality entertainment (Pies) Günter Netzer and the hair of legends (Germany WCB) Football clubs, tribalism, ownership (Pitch Invasion) The Shrewsbury shirt that's louder than even 11 (Unprofessional [. Click to continue reading...

Forget about the World Cup next summer. Forget about South Africa and forget about the limited amount of beds that await the world's football fans there. Forget about Fabio Capello and his impressive managerial record and the inevitable column inches that will concern Micheal Owen this summer.

Even forget about the next European Championships in Ukraine/Poland, that's if they can make it happen of course.

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If the title race is decided by individual brilliance, Rafa Benitez has no doubt that Liverpool's two-decade wait for the championship will end next May.
It has taken the Spaniard five seasons to construct a squad capable of slugging it out with Manchester United and Chelsea at the top of the Premier League for the whole nine months. Click to continue reading...

Four weeks ago, I was playing Football Manager. I was managing Manchester United and was faced with the dilemma of how to replace Tevez and Ronaldo. With 80 million quid in the bank, money wasn't an issue; however the question of bringing in the "right" player involves more than just money.

Browsing through my shortlist, the expected names appeared: Benzema, Ribery and Ibrahimovic.

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I guess it's to be expected as the league gets bigger and bigger, but this year's rookie class is on pace to equal or break a record. What is it? The most rookies who started at least half of the regular season games. The record is 10, and already 9 rookies this season are virtually certain to hit that mark (15 starts):

• Darrius Barnes (NE)
• Matt Besler (KC)
• Sam Cronin (TOR)
• Stefan Frei (TOR)
• Omar Gonzalez (LA)
• Jeremy Hall (LA)
• Chris Pontius (DC)
• Rodney Wallace (DC)
• Steve Zakuani (SEA)

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Yesterday, I asked the question of implementing live video review in football. Today's question is: are our expectations too high for international football? I enjoyed your responses to yesterday's article. Please weigh in with your feelings on international football in the comment section below.

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So tonight Toronto FC have to do something they've only managed to do once in their franchise history: score four unanswered goals in one game.
I was there when it last happened, an MLS fixture against FC Dallas back in TFC's inaugural season. It was a great day out; Edu scored a garbage goal, Dichio scored on a great header right as his name was being chanted by the South Stand, hell, Cunningham scored TFC's fourth. Click to continue reading...

Dear Mr Ashley

I represent certain interests deep within the Indian private sector which is located in the same country that manages your porn account, um in the back office way. Hope that is going satisfactorily for you sir, and you are getting it up with a tug job and jiggle. Mmmmmmhhhhhhh.

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Arguably the greatest central defender ever produced by Mexico and long-time captain of the Mexican National Team with 178 appearances, Claudio "El Emperador" Suarez had this to say about the recent loss of Mexico to El Salvador, who fell to fifth place in their World Cup Qualifying group. Click to continue reading...

Autor : Jorge Rubio
Entre agosto de 2008 y marzo de 2009 el castillo se debilitó. Tanto así, que en mayo de este año cayó. Cayó uno de los equipos más ricos del mundo y más simbólicos de la Premier League. Fueron tres arquitectos diferentes – Keegan, Hughton y Shearer – que intentaron remodelarlo, pero sus cimientos estaban demasiado débiles como para evitar su desplome. Click to continue reading...

John Hall is a former Chairman of Newcastle United in the Keegan days, but more importantly, he is a life- long fan of the Newcastle Club. John Hall - team was rubbish - useless on Sunday And it seems he was as disgusted as the rest of us with the pathetic, heartless, gutless and demoralizing display of [. Click to continue reading...

1 – Hair Cuts

Newcastle players over the last 30 years have been renowned to have rubbish haircuts, really starting with Kevin Keegans Perm and Terry McDermotts... well...."mop". Since then they have had some terrible barnets. Andy Carroll and Fabricio Coloccini are the most recent victims of having rubbish haircuts but also I need to mention Barry Venisons mullet, Darren Peacocks pony tail and Joey Bartons prison look.

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Keegan'ın formasını alırken ne kadar da saf, temiz bir aile çocuğu gibiymiş Diego. Brezilya forması değil ama dönemin İngiltere forması da yakışmış hani Deigo'ya.

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I had to do a double take when I read the news, even though it isn't all that surprising. Sami Hyypia, of 460 plus games over 10 years of service, will be leaving the club at the end of the season, joining Bayer Leverkusen on a free transfer. It's not a coincidence that the news didn't come out until the Agger deal was done and dusted. Click to continue reading...

Paul Ince sacked by Blackburn. Kevin Keegan pushed out of Newcastle. Roy Keane frustrated by Sunderland. Ince was an outright firing after Blackburn only registered 3 wins in 17 matches. Keegan technically resigned, but has made allegations that the club forced him out. Roy Keane left Sunderland after failing to agree on contract negotiations.

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This week total muppet is Bits n Bobs Ray from London. Now Mr Bob probably had the best squad of all time to choose from yet has somehow managed to select 3 center backs with their all time top scorer sitting on the bench. The term square pegs round holes springs to mind.

Do you agree with Mr Bob's selection or does he seem like the kind of fan who watches 2 Liverpool games per season?

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Obafemi Martins' pile driver of a goal at the Lane a couple of seasons back still haunts me. I thought we would win that game comfortably but the inconsistent African came up with some magic to ruin that Sunday for me. I can see this Sunday being a different story.

I have a lot of time for Newcastle, especially their fans but I really fear for their Premiership status this season.

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"I've had a great week - reaching the milestone of one-o-nine and now one-o-10 tonight"
David Beckham describes the joy of receiving his 110th cap for England in his own inimitable way.

"The quote from Iain Dowie was that Alan Shearer had 'big cojones' to take the job. I'm not sure what cojones are, but I think I had them in my burrito last night. Click to continue reading...