Clarke one nil

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/8177945.stm

 
All football fans will be saddened by this news.

http://www.leedsunited.com/news/lorimer-the-facts-about-smith-move-20090730_2247585_1738586

 
A lot of so called supporters should be ashamed of themselves, this five year delusion has to stop.

Reading the national press over the last few months you’d be forgiven for thinking that Newcastle United were owned by a idiot who found the club in a lucky bag. You wouldn’t know Ashley was one of the most successful British businessmen of this decade or that his Newcastle are actually in a more stable [...]

This post was originally written for www.thescratchingshed.com under the cover of “Grumpy Older Man”.
I tend to find it is difficult to express a reality analysis of the strengths and weaknesses of our squad without provoking a stream of arguments very rarely productive. People rightly want to think the best of a forth-coming season, want to [...]

As the close season gets shorter and television saturation beams games involving Premier League clubs live from every Asian city that would host them it becomes important to have a fixed point where it’s appropriate to start getting excited about the new season. In my case it isn’t the first pre-season friendly I attend (which [...]