Category: Newcastle United

  • Have The Toffees Come Unstuck?

    Have The Toffees Come Unstuck?

    When Everton are in the mood, they are very good, with flair players all over the park. On form, they could sneak a European spot at the end of the season but that depends on two things. First is that they need to put teams away when they are on top in matches instead of…

  • Barcelona Begins To Look Like The Real Deal Again

    Barcelona Begins To Look Like The Real Deal Again

                    For 90 minutes at the weekend, all of us went back in time a couple of years, to a period when one football team so eclipsed all others that they were being considered not just the best side on the planet at that moment but one of…

  • A Sport That Ignores What It Doesn’t Like

    A Sport That Ignores What It Doesn’t Like

    I love football, but there’s something about the game that’s pretty hard to deny. Football, above and beyond any other sport, is incredibly good at ignoring problems. Its leaders are incredibly good at wishing they’d go away. I’m writing a lengthy piece for this site on the continuing trials Scottish football is enduring as the…

  • EPL Matchday 10: One Bore Draw And Many Harry Returns

    EPL Matchday 10: One Bore Draw And Many Harry Returns

    Jose Mourinho’s Chelsea took another battering, on and off the pitch, over the last few days as this weekend’s Premier League matches saw them defeated, again, this time to West Ham. They followed that up with a penalty kicks defeat at Stoke, in the League Cup, although like most of the other top clubs that’s…

  • International Blues

    International Blues

    Is it only me who hates international weeks? Perhaps it’s a Scottish thing. All too often, our performances are the kind you watch from behind your hands, but only if there’s no room behind the sofa. The match against Poland was a case in point; you could feel the tension mounting up as the game…

  • EPL Matchday 7 Roundup: Sanchez Hits Hat-Trick In A Big Weekend

    EPL Matchday 7 Roundup: Sanchez Hits Hat-Trick In A Big Weekend

    Kane and Rooney finally scored. Sanchez hit a hat-trick and Newcastle blew it … again. It was a big weekend for in the EPL, with wins for Manchester United, Arsenal, Crystal Palace, Stoke, Southampton and, of course, Liverpool and Spurs. In the latter match, Harry Kane ended weeks of fevered speculation about whether or not…

  • EPL 15/16 Matchday 6: Newcastle 1-2 Watford

    EPL 15/16 Matchday 6: Newcastle 1-2 Watford

    Steve McClaren said, after this game, that trying to turn around Newcastle’s shocking form was “a little bit like a car crash.” He isn’t kidding. Right now it resembles a motorway pile-up, and one with a high likelihood of casualties. They flirted with relegation last season, and but for Sunderland also dropping three points and…

  • Chelsea consider £15m for Anderlecht striker

    Chelsea consider £15m for Anderlecht striker

    View image | gettyimages.com Chelsea are considering making a £15m move for Anderlecht striker Aleksandar Mitrovic.  The striker has attracted interest from a number of European clubs this season after some superb performance in the Belgian league and in the early rounds of the Champions League. Mitrovic, who has scored 20 goals in total this…

  • Yohan Cabaye to replace Man United signing at Southampton

    Yohan Cabaye to replace Man United signing at Southampton

    View image | gettyimages.com Southampton are lining up a move for Yohan Cabaye as they seek a replacement for Morgan Schneiderlin. The current Paris Saint Germain midfielder is frustrated at a lack of first team opportunities at the Parisien club and is looking to come back to England, prompting a whole host of clubs to show…

  • Liverpool submit £17m bid for Newcastle United star

    Liverpool submit £17m bid for Newcastle United star

    View image | gettyimages.com Liverpool have submitted a £17m bid for Newcastle United star Moussa Sissoko, Football Express News understands. Brendan Rodgers has previously been interested in the talented French international butchose to slash the cash on Mario Balotelli last summer. Balotelli’s failings have seen the Northern Irish boss look to bolster his attacking optionsand…