Articles tagged with "newcastle"
Yet Another Tactical Rethink
By Daryl | March 12th, 2009OK, so there's good news and bad news. The good news is that I squeaked past Udinese into the Champions League semi-finals. The bad news ...
Hindsight: Always 20/20
By Daryl | March 11th, 2009Managing: Newcastle Date: April 18th, 2011 Progress: 6th in Prem after 32 games, still in Europa League, Carling Cup collecting dust in trophy cabinet. One of the most ...
Back on Track
By Daryl | March 9th, 2009Managing: Newcastle Date: March 31st 2011 Progress: 6th in Prem with 8 games to go I took the weekend off from fake football management. Which I suppose is ...
I Woz Robbed!
By Daryl | March 6th, 2009Either by the Newcastle-hating match engine, or by my own stupidity. Or maybe a bit of both. vs Liverpool (away) Fernando Torres was injured for them, but I ...
Cristiano Ronaldo Gets Hit Where it Hurts
By Daryl | March 5th, 2009The Offside tries to stay out of the gutter wherever possible. No really, we do. But some things are just too good not to share, ...
Diego Comes Good
By Daryl | March 4th, 2009Remember how I was sort of regretting the Diego purchase? Yes, I got the lad cheap from Man City, but I was starting to think ...
Back to Reality
By Daryl | March 3rd, 2009There's finally something in the trophy room at Newcastle. So now the chase for that top four spot begins. Or in this case, doesn't. ...
Grumpy Bar Stewards
By Daryl | March 2nd, 2009You'd think everyone in Newcastle would be pretty damn excited about us winning the Carling Cup. First trophy since 1969 and all that. And they are, ...
And the Digital Carling Cup 2011 Winner is....
By Daryl | March 1st, 2009... revealed after the jump. It's the Toon Army! Apologies for the suspense. Yep, we beat Arsenal 3-2 at Wembley in front on 89,990. Apparently 10 people bought ...
Things Are About to Get Serious
By Daryl | February 23rd, 2009Managing: Newcastle Date: Feb 27th, 2011 Progress: 4th in Prem (yes!) after 27 games, one hand on the Carling Cup You can tell things are about to gets ...
Transfer Deadline Day
By Daryl | February 18th, 2009It's transfer deadline day 2011, and after The Pog's horrific injury (his calf muscle looks like sliced bacon) I'm one striker short, with not much ...
Either Fate or Football Manager 2009 Has a Sick Sense of Humour
By Daryl | February 18th, 2009Managing: Newcastle Date: January 27th, 2011 Progress: 6th in Prem after 22 games Either fate or Football Manager 2009 has a sick sense of humour. And I suspect ...
Welcome to Newcastle, Mr. Digeo
By Daryl | February 17th, 2009OK, so I got impatient while pondering the whole Diego vs Foti business and played a couple of games, including the Tyne-Wear derby. Here's what ...
Poll: Foti or Diego?
By Daryl | February 15th, 2009Sorry for dragging this out folks. I'm away from my laptop for the weekend so not much game progress to report. But before FM09 and myself ...
Saviola Out. But Who's Coming in?
By Daryl | February 12th, 2009First the good news. I managed to sell Javier Saviola to Birmingham City for £3m. And not until after he'd left did I think up ...
Studs Up: Bryan Robson to Newcastle?
By Daryl | February 12th, 2009More football webcomics at Studs Up. Newcastle fans have had things bad enough in recent years, but things might be about to get a lot worse. ...
The 20 Richest Teams in the World in 2008
By chris | February 11th, 2009It's time for the yearly Deloitte rankings, which display the revenue each clubs earns from the past calendar year (2008 here, Rip Van Winkle). There ...
Anyone for Foti?
By Daryl | February 11th, 2009Managing: Newcastle Date: Jan 5th, 2011 Progress: 5th in Prem after 19 games. Two match reports, and two excellent wins. Plus I may have found the answer to ...
Javier Complainiola
By Daryl | February 10th, 2009Managing: Newcastle Date: December 31st, 2010 Progress: 6th in Prem after 17 games Worst club crest in football:: Heerenveen (see right) Europa League Group H vs Heerenveen (home) W ...
Offside Soundoff: Which Player Broke Your Heart?
By Daryl | February 6th, 2009Kaka's proposed £100m (or whatever it was) move to Man City got a lot of people quite excited. Including us. But deep down we all ...
The End of an Unbeaten Run
By Daryl | February 3rd, 2009Managing: Newcastle Date: 23rd October, 2010 Progress: 10th after 8 games OK, so my 10 game unbeaten run included five draws and a Carling Cup win. But that ...
Joe Kinnear's Mouth Causes More Problems For Newcastle
By chris | January 30th, 2009The rant heard round the world, the "Mickey Mouse" comment which earned him a measly fine earlier in the week and now the straw that ...
Chantome Out, Camacho In
By Daryl | January 28th, 2009I've had a busy summer. Outs: Just one big one... Clement Chantome is gone, baby, gone. Signed for £12m last summer and one disappointing season later I've ...
Manchester City v Newcastle match preview
By j | January 28th, 2009Troubled Newcastle visit Manchester City today as both clubs are in desperate need of points. For the Magpies, the perilous line between the relegation zone ...
CIS Cup Semi-Final and The Transfer Season Can Start Now
By Matt | January 27th, 2009So tomorrow Celtic takes the short trip to Hampden to take on Dundee United in the Semi-Final of the CIS Cup, in what might be ...
Celtic Answers the Call and Kljestan ups his price
By Matt | January 25th, 2009After a disappointing loss the week before against Aberdeen, Celtic got back to winning ways and extended their lead to four points over Rangers, after ...
Man Marking and Showing Players Onto Their Weaker Foot
By Daryl | January 22nd, 2009Managing: Newcastle Date: Feb 25th, 2010 Progress: 8th in Prem after 26 games Addictedness rating: "Real football managers don't need food." Apologies for the lack of updates over the ...
Daily Dose: Jan 21st, 2009
By Daryl | January 21st, 2009Something to read while the new President of LegoLand is sworn in... When football meets violins (The Best Eleven) Football's answer to Günter Parche (Lufkin Daily News) European ...
Getting out of training. Newcastle United Style.
By Rob | January 21st, 2009Newcastle United had to call off training this morning when Geordie Striker Andy Carroll and French midfielder Charles N'Zogbia came to blows after a late ...
Rovers 3-0 Newcastle; Sam's revenge and out of the bottom 3. Highlights.
By Jimmy | January 18th, 2009Benni drew a penalty and scored from the spot and Roberts bagged two as Big Sam and the Rovers crushed Newcastle 3-nil yesterday at Ewood ...
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