Another Ba-rgain buy? Newcastle obviously think they've hit on a successful transfer formula, so they're sticking to it. They've brought another Senegal international striker called Demba with a history of playing in the Bundesliga. Papiss Demba Cisse has signed from Freiburg in a five-and-a-half-year deal, for an undisclosed fee thought to be in the region [.

Part 1...Fat Footballers
If I was to ask you to name the fattest footballer currently plying their trade in the Premiership then what would your answer be? A difficult question to answer isn't it. Perhaps Yakubu? And even then he is hardly a Rik Waller lookalike. Fat Frank? Lets be honest here, this is really just a moniker and probably arose because over 10 yards he is slower than most people's grannies, rather then anything to do with his actual physique.

Micky Quinn has been trying to become the new Supermac by trying to spout rhetoric and his (often misguided) opinions usually when things are going well. His words recently didn't earn him any special consideration with fans but it did give us a chance to work off some fat jokes and that can never [.

On arrival at Newcastle United Demba Ba was handed the number 19 shirt, leaving the number 9 shirt vacant. Does this indicate that there are plans to recruit another striker to fill it or is the shirt going to be retired for a while? The Newcastle United number 9 shirt is of course sacred. Leaving [.

Former Newcastle United striker Micky Quinn attacks Ashley for (potentially) letting Barton go and suggests that our transfer policy consists mainly of trying to buy cheap foreign players we can profit from in the future. Former Toon striker Micky Quinn has launched a scathing attack on the head honchos at Newcastle United and in the [.

To be a footballer would be to live the dream but you do have to make sacrifices. Here are some who have really taken the freedom of retirement to heart heart disease, that is...

This was prompted by a picture of Neil Shipperly I stumbled across remember him? Battling striker who played for Chelsea, amongst others?