The Newcastle U18 side fought through to the quarter finals of the FA Youth Cup last night, after they beat QPR 2-1 after extra time. Steve Logan in action last night The Newcastle lads gave a fighting display and Newcastle manager Alan Pardew was there at St. James' Park to watch his youngsters come from behind to win the game.

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Tim Ream returned to England earlier this week with all the necessary paperwork completed for him to suit up for Bolton Wanderers, and he might not have to wait long at all to make his debut.

Bolton manager Owen Coyle told reporters on Thursday morning that Ream, and two of the other club's recent acquisitions, will be on the gameday squad that will take on Wigan Athletic in a match with relegation implications on Saturday.

Today's announcement at Southwark Crown Court means that Spurs manager Harry Redknapp is free to resume full duties at White Hart Lane. We are therefore unlikely to see a repeat of Monday's game at Liverpool where Harry was absent due to transport problems and it's likely that all the players will be happy to see his familiar face in the dugout.

DARKSIDE CHRONICLES: Edition 002 Let me start off this week by saying that originally I was planning to offer up a different article that dealt with other problems regarding Manchester United. But due to the big game and glorious comeback that the lads fashioned on the weekend, I think I should stick to the match [.

While it wasn't exactly backs to the wall for 90 minutes as some media reports are suggesting, Tottenham had to show a great deal of resilience to come away with a draw from yesterday's encounter at Anfield.

After the game, Assistant Manager Kevin Bond hailed a ‘different type of performance' as Spurs took a valuable point from the match.

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Newcastle came away with all 3 points on Wednesday evening at Blackburn, and a second successive win in the Premier League tomorrow against Aston Villa would see the lads flying high. If Newcastle can win tomorrow against a decent Aston Villa side, then Newcastle would have 42 points from 24 games and the side would remain [.

It seems that 6'4″ center-back Mike Williamson is doing some of the interview duties today. Mike Williamson looking for a win against Villa If the lads can win the game against Aston Villa tomorrow, we'll be on 42 points after 24 games played and that's a fantastic achievement. And if we can keep that average up we'll collect about [.

We didn't feel good before last night's win at Blackburn. Fab Coloccini tussles with David Dunn last night And when we wrote we just didn't have a good feeling about the game last night in our match preview, that probably cheered up a of of Newcastle fans. And would you believe it, the lads got a terrific win 2-0, and we were wrong again!

A delighted Alan Pardew was full of praise for his players last night, after the lads had won 2-0 and beaten Blackburn for the third time in four meetings this season. Alan Pardew congratulates goal-scorer Obertan last night Standing just outside the tunnel of Ewood Park last night after the game, this is what Alan Pardew told nufcTV: "I felt we [.

Newcastle manager Alan Pardew has praised the character of his Newcastle squad tonight. Alan Pardew after win does he look happy or does he look happy? Although Newcastle were outplayed in the first half at Ewood Park, the lads held on manfully and took an early lead when a right foot shot by Ryan [.

Everton boss David Moyes was a busy man in January, signing the likes of Darron Gibson and Nikica Jelavic, loaning former Toffees Steven Pienaar and Landon Donovan, and offloading Louis Saha to Tottenham.

All that activity is seemingly about to payoff, with the traditionally slow-starting Merseysiders back in the top half of the table following last night's famous 1-0 win over league leaders Manchester City at Goodison Park.

The transfer window came to a close yesterday with some very interesting signings across Europe. Once again attention was centred on the EPL where a host of clubs were keen on bolstering their squads for the remainder of the season.

However, it was to be a bitter sweet day for league leaders Manchester City who despite capturing Roma midfielder David Pizarro on loan, suffered a 1-0 away defeat to Everton.

It must be hard being a manager when you have said the lads will put up a good performance after the Fulham disaster, and then we lose to a lower league side in the FA Cup. Alan Pardew it was a bit galling And it's not gone unnoticed that's for the second year in a row Newcastle have been eliminated [.

U.S. Soccer fans were dialed in to yesterdays' FA Cup fourth round clash between Everton and Fulham that featured Tim Howard, Landon Donovan and Clint Dempsey. The home side walked out 2-1 winners, with Donovan serving up assists on both goals for the Toffees. The win was the first for Everton against Fulham in their FA Cup history.

Ireland striker Robbie Keane has already become Aston Villa's in-game gaffer by shouting out pitch instructions to his short-term colleagues.
Keane has ingratiated himself to team-mates and fans alike with his brilliant double in the 3-2 victory at Wolves last Weekend and it capped an amazing full Villa start for the 31-year-old Irish captain who is currently on loan from LA Galaxy.

Chelsea defender Gary Cahill is already feeling at home with his new teammates, describing the squad as an 'entertaining' group following the club's short training camp in Mallorca.

The Blues returned home earlier today and after spending most of the time in Mallorca training together in the warm weather, Cahill feels that the bonding within the squad got stronger by the day.

Haris Vuckic has been interviewed by the Newcastle web-site while he was in Tenerife, with the rest of the Newcastle squad. Haris Vuckic FA Cup is important for Newcastle The lads returned last night to continue their preparation for the FA Cup 4th round game at Brighton on Saturday a game Newcastle will [.

The mid-season break in Tenerife in Spain's Canary Islands ends today. John Carver and Alan Pardew The lads have been recharging their batteries in the sunshine, and are getting ready for the last four months of the season, which will decide how well Newcastle do in the Premier League and in the FA Cup, and whether Newcastle can again qualify for [.

There were some good things that came out of the game on Saturday at Fulham. Ben Arfa becoming Newcastle's secret weapon One of them was how very well the lads played in that first half, and of the seven goals scored, Newcastle produced the best two individual goals from Danny Guthrie and Ben Arfa.

We don't want to go on too much more about that game on Saturday, because after a while it gets to be boring and in any case my arm starts to hurt when I have to write about it. Alan Pardew - Newcastle have been brilliant The lads are in Tenerife, and jetted out of Gatwick, late Saturday night after the Fulham [.

We don't think there's anything wrong with Alan Pardew taking the first team squad away on a sunshine break for a few days in January. Alan Pardew taking a break in Tenerife Alan did that last January about the same time, when he took the lads to Faro, Portugal, but the weather at that time was [.

Everybody knows by now that its like riding on a roller-coaster to be a fan of Wolves, but this game gave me a ride I'll never forget. I was totally exhausted afterwards and it felt like I'd been out there with the lads for 90 minutes. Already against Spurs there were two players that took [...]

Leading the league table for quite sometime and even managed to build a pretty huge lead with their rivals, things gets really tight at the moment for Manchester City, but their players still have high confidence about their title chance at the end of season.

Adam Johnson is one of those who believes his team strength in maintaining their current position until the end of season since the winger thinks that it would be a big disappointment if his club can't do that.

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The players spent many afternoons in training at camp in Phoenix at Athletes Perfomance, and during the time between lunch and lectures they got into some serious games of table tennis (not ping-pong, as we were admonished!). As you can imagine, the lads are competitive in whatever they do.
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We've been waiitng for Demba Ba to tweet about the Cisse transfer deal. Papiss Cisse yesterday Howay The Lads!! And the Senegal striker has welcomed his Senegal team-mate to Newcastle, following an astonishing sequence of events yesterday, that saw Cisse join Newcastle in a stunning £9M deal.

We've been waiitng for Demba Ba to tweet about the Cisse transfer deal. Papiss Cisse yesterday Howay The Lads!! And the Senegal striker has welcomed his Senegal team-mate to Newcastle, following an astonishing sequence of events yesterday, that saw Cisse join Newcastle in a stunning £9M deal.

Newcastle United pulled off a coup today in the signing of Senegalese striker Papisse Demba Cisse. The former Freiburg striker has nine goals from 15 appearances so far this season, and finished last season as one of the top goalscorers in the Bundesliga with 22 goals to his name.

The striker signs on a 5 and-a-half year deal, and the transfer fee is thought to be in the region of £7.

The first months of Michel Vorm in Swansea: "I'm impressed with that new Swansea goalie time after time" ( Michael Owen), "The other lads called him the Cat, as his reflexes are so lightning fast" (Swansea coach Brendan Rogers), "He only cost 1,5 Mio pounds, he's the pick of the [read more]

It wasn't a great performance yesterday from Newcastle, but we're certainly not complaining, as the lads got a great 3 points against QPR, in a game we were expected to win. Alan Pardew shakes hands with Mark Hughes before the game yesterday Good luck but not too much of it That's 4 points the lads have taken off newly promoted QPR this season, without conceding a goal, and [.

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Dijon have confirmed that, after a protracted series of negotiations, Gael Kakuta will be joining the club for the remainder of the campaign. Over the last ten days, Chelsea have been engaged in a series of loan discussions with both Dijon and Olympiakos.

Spurs enjoyed a comfortable enough win over Cheltenham in the third round of the FA Cup on Saturday and manager Harry Redknapp was quick to praise many members of the side. While Aaron Lennon and Michael Dawson returned from injury, Niko Kranjcar impressed in a rare start and Jake Livermore also caught the boss's eye as he filled in at right back.

Italian league action resumed yesterday after a short break with a couple of interesting results. Inter Milan began the year with a resounding 5-0 hammering of Parma at the San Siro while high flyers Lazio were thrashed 4-0 by Siena.

In what he termed as his best display ever with the club, a visibly happy Claudio Ranieri praised his side for their 5 star performance.

A solid, professional job in the end. Charlton, as the third division table shows, are a tidy enough team, but in the end class told. Clint Dempsey scored a hat-trick, Damien Duff whopped in another, and Fulham are in the hat for the 4th round.

We scored early, Murphy's through ball finding Dempsey, who lifted the ball home expertly.

A solid, professional job in the end. Charlton, as the third division table shows, are a tidy enough team, but in the end class told. Clint Dempsey scored a hat-trick, Damien Duff whopped in another, and Fulham are in the hat for the 4th round.

We scored early, Murphy's through ball finding Dempsey, who lifted the ball home expertly.

Alan Pardew deserves great credit for the way he prepared the lads for last night's fantastic 3-0 win over Manchester United. Alan Pardew put together terrific game plan for Newcastle The Red Devils were left last night to lick their wounds after they had been mauled by an energetic and skillful Newcastle side, and let's see now oh [.

The very last thing we want to happen tonight is for Newcastle to lose to Manchester United. And that's because our poor run will continue and it will be the sixth defeat in the last 9 games for Newcastle, after the lads did so well in the other 11 games. But Newcastle usually play well against Manchester United and indeed earned a 1-1 draw at Old Trafford on November [.

With only 5 points gained from the last eight games played, Newcastle fans will be hoping the lads can get something out of the game tomorrow night against Manchester United. Yohan Cabaye possibility to win against Manchester United The Red Devils are coming off their shock 3-2 home defeat to Blackburn who got back to their losing ways against Stoke City by [.

Joey Barton reponded to his sending off today via twitter saying;
"Well feel for the officials, they've been conned. Admitted to me at HT they never saw it. I was pulled back 1st, then kicked 2nd!."

"Linesman definitely never saw it, all he seen was Johnsons reaction. My head dosent move forward at all.