Chris Hughton makes three changes to the side which won at Sheffield United on Monday night. As
expected Steven Taylor returns for Tamas Kadar, Danny Guthrie comes in to give some creativity in
midfield in place of Nicky Butt, and Marlon Harewood will get his big chance in front of the
Newcastle fans this afternoon.
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FC Boro 05 November @ 05:41 PM EST
Stevenage embark on another FA Cup journey this weekend as they travel up to Stoke to face
League 2 side Port Vale. This time last year we were preparing for another trip up the M1, that
time it was to Leicester, who comfortably beat us 3-0 at the Walkers Stadium. Now though, Boro are
a much improved and experienced team.
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19 year-old Hungarian defender defender, in only his second league outing, further enhanced his
growing reputation as he put in a solid showing alongside returning Argentine International
Fabricio Coloccini. Tamas Kadar solid game last night well done! Sheffield United were a very
physical side last night, as most sides will try to be against [.
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There aren't many things worse than what's happened to our club over the past week or so, and I
was hoping that it wouldn't have too much of an impact on the NUFC players. Fortunately (and rather
fortuitously), they battled to a hard fought victory over Sheffield United.
The Blades made the Newcastle players work hard for this victory, which on another day, could so
easily have gone against us.
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Here's Chris Hughton's interview after the tough win at Sheffield United last night. If the
Blackwell interview comes up first (he may be in trouble) look to the right and click on Chris'
interview. It's a good interview and Chris is down to earth as usual, and he's taking absolutely
nothing for granted.
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It's the FA Cup First Round this weekend so, in the first of five pieces about the Oldest
Cup Competition In The World (and there's a phrase that is probably copyrighted by The FA), we take
a look back at Wycombe Wanderers' run to the semi-finals of the competition in 2001.
The FA Cup is a competition that throws up surprise results every season, but some records
remain and one that may never be broken is that no-one from the bottom two divisions of the
Football League has made The FA Cup final.
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Newcastle United regained the top spot in the Coca Cola League Championship after edging
Sheffield United 1-0 away from home. The Magpies went into Monday evening a point behind West
Bromwich Albion but an own goal from Blades skipper Chris Morgan stunned Bramall Lane.
Fortunately for Newcastle, there was no coming back from the hosts.
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Newcastle got the result they needed tonight at Bramall Lane and kept their 8th clean sheet ofÂ
the season as Argentine International Fabricio Coloccini made his long-awaited return to the side
after a troublesome groin injury. That was the good news, but the bad news is that we had to rely
on a Sheffield United own goal to [.
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West Brom have replaced Newcastle United atop the English Football League Championship table after
15 rounds of matches. However, the Magpies can retain top spot with a win at Sheffield United later
today. Cardiff City currently sits in second position in an extremely tight table in which 1st and
10th positions are separated by only 10 [.
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Gary Speed, the former great Newcastle midfielder, is now assistant manager to Kevin Blackwell at
Sheffield United. Gary Speed - assistant manager at the Blades Gary will be planning the downfall
of Newcastle United, his former club, tonight and we have to hope he will not be successful. Gary,
who is best friends of course with a [.
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! Article Start >It appears that the current mutinous attitude of the Toon faithful is spreading
around the country as fast as the H1N1 virus with the latest rumblings of discontent being voiced
at Bramhall Lane, where more than 100 supporters stayed behind after Sheffield United's last home
match, to demonstrate at their recent poor [.
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The coaching staff at Newcastle are keen to keep young Nile Ranger's feet on the ground this
season. Nile Ranger feet on the ground We are hoping that Chris Hughton will give Ranger a start
against Sheffield United on Monday night. Chris said today: "It's normal that people talk about
players being linked with clubs on the [.
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Sol Campbell fancies a move to Newcastle United but may be too costly for Hughton. However Matthew
Kilgallon looks like a more affordable target. Campbell is currently trying to sort out the
ramifications of getting out of his ill-fated contract at Notts County, but he found time recently
to go public about his interest in joining [.
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Even though Sheffield United have not won in six games, they still have one or two very good
players. Chris Hughton - tough game on Monday And speaking today about our game on Monday evening
at Bramall Lane, Chris Hughton said: "They've got Chris Morgan and Matthew Kilgallon who are two
tough and experienced players.
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Our opponents on Monday night, Sheffield United are desperately trying to keep their promising
center-back Matthew Kilgallon at the club, but his contract runs out in the summer, and he has so
far refused to sign a new deal with the Blades. Matthew Kilgallon does he want to come to
Newcastle? The Blades have [.
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Soccer Pie 30 October @ 02:26 AM EST
When somewhat forgotten Ian Holloway took Blackpool over this summer, few
people believed that this charismatic motivator will do anything more than traditional and boring
survival fight. The team from English popular summer resort on Lancashire coast have been in
financial problems for a long time now and in the last few seasons they struggled to make the team
for the Championship.
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Chris Hughton says he is very optimistic over the chances of defensive pair Steven Taylor and
Fabricio Coloccini being fit for Monday night's game with Sheffield United. Taylor and Colo - hope
these two are fit! Yesterday's half expected news that Newcastle lost their appeal to reduce the
three-game ban handed out to Zurab Khizanishvili, means the [.
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Steven Taylor has not appeared for Newcastle United since October 3 at home to Bristol City. Steven
Taylor very doubtful for Sheffield United There's absolutely no doubt that Newcastle have missed
Steven's experience, skill and strength at the back, since he's been out, and it just shows what an
important player the 23 year-old has become [.
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James Beattie
Beattie, a Sheffield United player last season, slowly adjusted to his move up to the Premier
League to open this season. Going into last weekend the thirty-one year old had yet to find the
back of the net. This would change though against West Ham last weekend.
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Off the Post 21 October @ 05:46 AM EST
Lucky they scored two more for him to watch Blackpool boss Ian Holloway has revealed he missed the
first goal of his side's 3-0 victory over Sheffield United because he had to nip to the toilet. The
one-man quote machine blamed his ageing bladder and the large amounts of water he had consumed for
missing Marcel [.
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West Brom moved top this weekend, capatalising on Newcastle's away loss to Forest.
Cardiff closed in on Middlesbrough, before climbing up to third with a win on Tuesday. Could this
be the bluebirds season? At the other end of the table Ipswich drew again, quickly levelling having
gone behind to an early Beattie goal.
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EPL Talk 20 October @ 04:30 AM EST
Paul Peschisolido will be a guest on an upcoming episode of the EPL Talk Podcast. Peschisolido
is a familiar name in English football from the Premier League to the Football League. During his
playing career, he played at Fulham, Birmingham City, Stoke City, West Bromwich Albion, Sheffield
United, Derby County, Luton Town, Norwich City, Queens Park Rangers and several other clubs.
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99 red balloons floating up into the sky, panic bells it's red alert. While the stadium of light
had 98 fewer than an eighties pop classic once spoke of on Saturday, the one massive beach
ball-shaped troublemaker in the Liverpool goalmouth certainly gave cause for the panic bells to
ring again on the red half of merseyside.
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Soccerblog 18 October @ 10:28 AM EST
While most of the US was transfixed by the Balloon Boy saga, Liverpool fans were encountering
their own problems with dirigibles.
Yes, a bright red beach ball that wandered onto the pitch seems to have transfixed Pepe Reina's
attention. Enough distraction and deflection of a Darren Bent shot to find its way to goal.
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Today's Sunderland defeat is clearly a devastating blow to Liverpool's title chances, after all, no
team can win the league after losing 4 of their first 9 league games...right? WRONG. During the
1963-64 season, Bill Shankly's Liverpool team did just that!
I personally don't believe Liverpool can win the title this season, but as history proves, it IS
theoretically possible, and it HAS been done before.
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Soccerblog 18 October @ 05:23 AM EST
Will be awarded to the player who scores the best goal off a balloon lying on the pitch.A lot of
painstaking research on the net over a period of five whole minutes has turned up two
candidates.One is Darren Bent.His sublime effort is on view in the last post.This second candidate
is a player from Sheffield United who also used a balloon to good effect.
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EPL Talk 17 October @ 12:06 PM EST
In the opening five minutes of Sunderland against Liverpool today, a red balloon played a
decisive role in the first goal when Darren Bent's shot at goal resulted in the ball being diverted
when it hit the red balloon in the penalty box. The ball went one way towards the goal, while the
balloon went the other way and past the post.
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This advert is probably the best and the most famous football advert for those of you
who have been Sky Sports fans since it was created. Sheffield United fan Sean Bean fronts this
fantastic advert...
Life
It can be difficult
You know that
We all need someone to rely on
Someone who's going to be there
Someone who's going to make you feel like you belong
Someone constant
It's ectasy, anguish, joy and despair
Part of our history
Part of our country
And it will be part of our future
It's theatre, art, war and love
It should be predictable .
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QPR Report 16 October @ 11:47 AM EST
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- QPR REPORT...UPDATED THROUGHOUT THE DAY:
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...
Now that the championship season is well underway I thought it would be fitting to give you a
list of the ten top players who have set alight the championship this season. The quality of the
championship is phenomenal these days and has become a training ground for top up and comers, as
well as one of the most entertaining leagues in the world.
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BWFC 24 14 October @ 08:10 AM EST
As the nights draw in and leaves fall and while hedgehogs prepare to be burnt alive in
bonfires there is one thing that begins to blossom — transfer rumours. Having said that, transfer
rumour seem to be more evergreen than biannual.
The latest rumour involves midfielder Camel Meriem, currently at AS Monaco, who
is thought to have gained the interest of Megson.
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Let's now jump forward from Crystal Palace and the Kung-fu nightmare at Selhurst Park in January
1995 to Crystal Palace at Villa Park on Sunday 9th April. Old antagonisms from the league encounter
had hardly had time to subside when United were to face Palace again, this time on neutral turf in
the FA Cup Semi Final which United had reached by beating Sheffield United, Wrexham, Leeds
(yes!
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Off the Post 09 October @ 04:10 AM EST
Erm, the thing was... what happened... was...erm... 1. Wasps The news broke yesterday evening that
Juventus captain Fabio Cannavaro had tested positive for the banned substance cortisone. The club
immediately defended themselves and their player, claiming that he had been injected after being
stung by a wasp.
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