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Newcastle United will begin life without striker Demba Ba and midfielder Cheick Tiote in the FA Cup third round clash with Blackburn Rovers. Both are off to represent their countries (Senegal and The Ivory Coast) in the African Cup Of Nations. But would either of them have been selected anyway even if they had been [.

Virgin Money takes over where Northern Rock left off and sponsors Newcastle United's shirts for the next two and a half seasons. As you could no doubt tell by the shirts the team wore last night, Newcastle United have brokered a deal with Virgin Money until the end of the 2013/2014 season. Last night Derek [.

Well, Joey Barton did promise on Twitta that he would "tell all when the time was right" and he's finally kept his word. Speaking in a long audio podcast interview for the Queen's Park Ranger's 'blog "Open All R's," he finally lifted the lid on his time at Newcastle United and his strained relationship with [.

Newcastle United's Silver Supremo, Alan Pardew, has come out and defended Mike Ashley's decision to rename St James' Park the "Sports Direct Arena." Speaking in an interview in the run up to Newcastle United's away match against Manchester City, he began by reassuring "traditionalists" who may be upset that it would still be the same [.

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A few days after Newcastle United's already despised Managing Director, Derek Llambias, announced the club's corporate renaming of the club's traditional home as "The Sports Direct Arena", it would be hard to imagine his or Mike Ashley's reputation sinking any lower. However all that has changed now after one simple drunken rant in a bar [.

To say there's been some opposition to Mike Ashley's rehash of his previously botched plan to sell the St James' Park naming rights would be an understatement. However as more details have emerged it's become ever more obvious that this 2.0 version is scarcely better than the previous one, and it seems more than likely [.

Newcastle United's stadium renaming farce has caused quite a stir, although a 'top marketing consultant' hails it a success. Meanwhile Northern Rock have pulled out of the shirt sponsorship deal early. Are the two events related? A marketing gadgie called Jonathon Gabay, who is according to his website "trusted by some of the [.

After the uproar of the announcement this morning and much discussion with the lads at work, I've come to the feeling that Ashley has completely lost any trust that he has managed to claw back over the past few months. As a previous nufcblog.org article has already pointed out, Derek Llambias has previously gone on [.

I think I am more upset that I'm not as upset as the majority of fans are about the nasty re branding of St James Park. I was surprised to see the new name as I thought it was going to be blah blah blah @ St James Park, but we all knew this was [...]

With the news that Newcastle United will be changing it's name to "Sports Direct @ St James' Park", the Managing Director of the club, Derek Llambias, has sought to reassure fans that the St James' Park name would remain so long as he and current owner, Mike Ashley "reigned" at the club. Firstly though, he [.

It's somewhat of a rare occurrence to hear from Alan Pardew, as it's not often he conducts interviews... Obviously, I'm being extremely sarcastic, and Alan Pardew has been talking once again, this time in regards to Mike Ashley and Derek Llambias. I'm not entirely sure where the interview originated from, but I picked it up [.

Eight days ago, the letters which used to make up the famous "Newcastle United" sign were offered for sale on the online auction site EBay, with all proceeds from the sale going towards a night in Asper's Casino for Mike Ashley, Derek Llambias and Alan Pardew the "Newcastle United Foundation" charity, who in their own [.

Well known Newcastle United site nufc.com have posted the image you see here of the new sign over St James' Park's East Stand, much favoured by pensioners with tartan lap rugs and flasks of tea. But I digress... The picture, posted by "KM", was supposedly taken on Wednesday, September 14th, and as you can see, [.