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Mike Ashley forces Henry Winter to eat his words

Henry Winter

Telegraph journalist Henry Winter is being forced to eat his words and swim the River Tyne after Newcastle United chairman Mike Ashley gave his manager Alan Pardew a new eight-year contract this week. When Alan Pardew was appointed as Newcastle United...read more »

Newcastle owner set to buy stake in Rangers

Newcastle owner Mike Ashley

News coming from Scotland today that Newcastle United owner Mike Ashley is set to buy a stake in struggling Scottish club Glasgow Rangers. The Herald is reporting that Mike Ashley is in talks with Rangers chief Charles Green about buying a...read more »

Newcastle lagging behind Sunderland in this regard

2011-12 Newcastle home shirt

Manchester United may have signed a football shirt sponsorship deal this week that blows their rivals out of the water, but the big news for Newcastle United fans is that they’re lagging behind arch-rivals Sunderland. On the pitch Newcastle may have...read more »

FIVE points of success for Pardew

Alan Pardew smiling

It’s fair to say Alan Pardew wasn’t exactly the most popular of appointments when he was announced as the successor to Chris Hughton’s Newcastle throne in early December 2010. The Geordie nation, still seething following Mike Ashley and Derek Llambias’ decision...read more »

Llambias reveals Ashley still calls stadium St James’ Park

Pointing at Owen's helicopter?

Newcastle managing director Derek Llambias has revealed that he and owner Mike Ashley still refer to the clubs stadium as St James' Park despite changing it's name last year. In November Ashley took the extraordinary and controversial step to rename the...read more »

The best £2.8m Newcastle will ever spend

Newcastle United Academy

Under Mike Ashley, Newcastle have ramped up their investment in youth and this looks set to continue and possibly even accelerate in the near future. Bringing through home-grown players leads to them to become fan favourites more often than not...read more »

The top 6 is a closed shop for Newcastle, as far as this table is concerned at least

Football Money

There is no doubt that Newcastle United are a club on the up. After the bitter disappointment of being relegated from the Premier League in 2009, a return straightaway as Championship winners, a solid first campaign back and a season...read more »

Mike Ashley: Spot the Difference

Mike Ashley Spot the Difference

It’s fair to say that Mike Ashley has come in for plenty of criticism since he became Newcastle United owner nearly five years ago in 2007. Many of his actions haven't pleased Newcastle fans and he has been labelled as...read more »

A Liverpool swap plus cash could tempt Ash

Demba Ba and Andy Carroll

The return of Liverpool striker Andy Carroll to Newcastle United transfer rumour has gone full circle this week. Taking place purely in the imagination of newspaper journalists, Liverpool were said to be willing to let Carroll go for £20 million,...read more »

Have Newcastle unearthed a lucky charm?

Sir Richard Branson

2012 has started off magnificently for Newcastle United. A stunning 3-0 win against Manchester United in the Premier League was followed by a comeback victory against Blackburn Rovers in the FA Cup, to make it two wins in two at...read more »

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