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Greasing palms

We don't need no – advertisements!

Well, despite over 500 objections being listed on the council’s website Fat Mike Ashley has been given the go-ahead to drape adverts for his dodgy merchandise all over a landmark in Newcastle city centre – to whit, St James’ Park. I mentioned the story a few weeks [...]

Hands off our stadium!

As it is and should remain

Thanks to the guys at nufc.com for bringing this to my attention. And lots of other people judging by the comments on the planning department’s website.

What am I on about? Well, late last year the money-grabbing lunatics in charge of Newcastle United decided it would be [...]

Keep St James’ Park as St James’ Park

It's already got a name

Copy of an email sent to the following addresses:

info@ampersand.uk.com Deborah.Grocock@sportsdirect.com info@sports-world.com

[Ampersand are the company who will be looking to find a sponsor for the whole rebranding mess surrounding Mike Ashley's attempts to sell a part of Newcastle's heritage in exchange for some money. Money he lost [...]

Football fixtures on Google Calendar

Newcastle United

A few weeks back I posted a link to my Google Calendar with the Newcastle United fixtures on. I had to do this as Google removed the “search” option so it was impossible to find any useful calendars.

They’ve not reintroduced this, but they have added a new slew of “Interesting [...]

Easy Wednesday?

Newcastle United F.C.

A few blogs have been mentioning that the last time Newcastle United played Sheffield Wednesday at St James’ Park, we won 8-0. Fair do’s, but a lot has changed since then!

For a start, we’re a shadow of the side we were then. It was Bobby Robson‘s first game in [...]