strong>Cold, damp and pretty miserable, and that was just my fatha. Well no actually, the weather did a good impersonation of mid-December (or else I'm just getting auld). And the first half of the Newcastle vs Hartlepool reserve match sort of felt a bit sorry for itself at times. But with the news that Fabrice [. Click to continue reading...

Video highlights of Newcastle United's 3-1 triumph over Peterborough at St James's Park yesterday, including free bedsheet protester! Includes goals by Gutierrez, Carroll and Simpson, and a consolation from Peterborough's Dean Keates. For Bowburn Mag's full match review, click here. Share this on del. Click to continue reading...

strong>At one point during this game, I thought my match write-up might be best illustrated by a big daft grinning smiley. Because at one point, that seemed to sum up the sort of mood around the ground today among Newcastle fans despite all of the ill-feeling toward the current incumbent. This also despite the fact [. Click to continue reading...

! Article Start >Once again, Newcastle United managed to leave us feeling slightly underwhelmed, and yet still went top of the league after taking all three points at Bramall Lane. The fact that we managed to grind out a 1-0 win against the red and white half of Sheffield was largely down to luck at [. Click to continue reading...

For such a relatively average game, this one managed to have a little bit of everything. And yet for the majority of it, Newcastle fans were once again left wondering whether this was going to be another long, hard season. With inept displays from Harewood, Carroll and in particular Gutierrez in the first half and [. Click to continue reading...

Uh-oh! Newcastle left Glanford Park with absolutely nothing tonight as Scunthorpe took all three points with a 2-1 win, and it would take a brave man to suggest the St James' garden is rosy right now. Despite having plenty of possession and creating a number of decent chances, Newcastle spurned several of them and were [. Click to continue reading...

Well what a miserable bloody night.....stuck in a pub where I could only just about see and hear the game in the first half and where the locals seem to treat the bar as a place to lounge rather than a place to buy a drink. I was already hacked off before the game kicked [...] Click to continue reading...

The Forest fixture against Newcastle United on Saturday brings to mind a bizarre group of matches between our two teams in 1974. Following success in the earlier rounds, Newcastle United found themselves at home in the quarter finals of the FA cup in front of a crowd of 54,500 facing second division Nottingham Forest. Click to continue reading...

You could be excused for forgetting there was a football match going ahead this afternoon. After the findings of the arbitration yesterday, all the talk has been of last summer and deliberation over whether everyone is happy with the outcome of 'the affair'. Well I took full advantage of my dodgy knee and got to [. Click to continue reading...

Well, on a night when Chris Hughton made Nile Ranger a second half stranger, all the points almost went to Queens Park Rangers and their pacy danger. This was arguably the best side I have seen Newcastle up against so far this season and with pace throughout their team and Routledge always a menace, QPR [. Click to continue reading...

Firstly of course, this game will be remembered as a time when Ipswich paid tribute to the great Sir Bobby Robson and renamed the north stand of Portman Road in his honour. Lady Elsie Robson and her sons, Andrew and Paul were in attendance for the ceremony. Also, both teams wore special, commemorative kits for [. Click to continue reading...

Newcastle were beaten by Peterborough and dumped out of the Carling Cup last night. It's probably for the best given our small squad and the higher importance of the Championship but, despite such pragmatism, it still stings to lose. I wasn't at the game, didn't see it on TV and didn't listen to it on the [. Click to continue reading...

Well that's certainly how it felt. I'll cut to the chase on this one because I've got my GNR preparations and an early night ahead of me. And frankly most of today's game was instantly forgettable. From Enrique's elaborations, to Joey Barton's wonky radar and then over to a lop-sided and blunted formation, there was [. Click to continue reading...

I've only got the match reports to go on but the general impression I get is that we were both out-thought and out-fought by Blackpool last night, which has got to be something of a reality check in terms of our Championship aspirations. Chris Hughton had this to say about the game: "I am bitterly disappointed, Blackpool [. Click to continue reading...

Just when you thought we'd turned some sort of corner, Blackpool go and 'tango' us. Well admittedly, I had to rely on the eyes of the commentating duo of Mick Lowes and John Anderson but the performance sounded as bleak as the conditions and there was nothing pleasurable about the trip to this beach. Click to continue reading...

One of the problems of living in South Somerset is that I'm only Devon and Cornwall short of being as far as it's possible to get from St James's Park and still be in England. One of the advantages of being in the Championship, though, is that there are a few more away games within [...] Click to continue reading...

Alreet, so that's a bit of a bold statement but doesn't it feel like it at the minute? Not quite literally, but I mean we were relatively average today and yet I didn't doubt the outcome swinging in our favour at any point and it's been a long time since a black and white first [...] Click to continue reading...

Black and white, sitting on top, doing alright! That's Newcastle United, after another win in front of the watching Sky cameras puts us in the driving seat after five games. Leicester City came to town and although The Foxes showed wily endeavour in the first half, it would be hard to argue that the result [. Click to continue reading...

I didn't realise that I' be travelling up from London to SJP to cover this match, so it was all a bit of a rush, and I felt a little disoriented to find myself back inside the mothership at such short notice after some time away. Observations on my return were that the mighty SJP [...] Click to continue reading...

Well that was a bit drab then! I don't think anybody expected that sort of entertainment but Newcastle ran out 4-3 winners against Huddersfield Town in a pulsating Carling Cup game after coming from 3-1 down to put us in the Third Round draw. With old boy Lee Clark was back in toon, his side [...] Click to continue reading...

Even though I live in London, usually, I'd rather be flayed alive than travel to South Norwood, the home of Crystal Palace's Selhurst Park. It's an absolute mare to get to, either struggling though all the worst that London traffic has to offer, or making around 73 changes on the train. Even so, there seemed [. Click to continue reading...

After planning a trip back home to coincide with the Sheffield Wednesday game I had my 16 year old daughter in tow. She's much more of a rugby fan being an ardent follower of the Leicester Tigers but does harbour a small passion for the Toon that I have been trying to nuture for years. [...] Click to continue reading...

Well you can't keep an average striker down. Love him or hate him, he's entirely unpredicatable and yesterday Shola Ameobi managed to give us a brief period of respite with a convincing hat-trick which sent Reading packing. From his first slightly fortunate headed goal to his perfectly-timed three goal tribute to Sir Bobby, it truly was [. Click to continue reading...

A decent attendance considering, a few grey, bald patches but not too bad after scare stories of less than 30,000. A cosy looking threesome involving Mike Ashley, Barry Moat and Derek Llambias in the Director's box was a newsworthy event in itself. In this, the first home game since the death of Sir Bobby Robson, a [. Click to continue reading...