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Player Focus: Townsend's Big Money Move a Risk for Newcastle

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Player Focus: Townsend's Big Money Move a Risk for Newcastle “Emotional…” a one word Tweet by Andros Townsend on Tuesday showing him departing Hotspur Way for the final time effectively confirmed his switch to Newcastle, 24 hours before the club announced the deal. The England international had been expected to depart Tottenham for pastures...

Team Focus: Solid Midfield Additions Outline Newcastle's Survival Strategy

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Team Focus: Solid Midfield Additions Outline Newcastle's Survival Strategy Tuesday night’s 3-3 draw between Newcastle and Manchester United was as unexpected as it was entertaining. Given the pairing’s goalscoring woes of late, a six-goal thriller took all those involved completely by surprise. Some have gone as far to say it was the game of the season so far g...

Match Report: Late Newcastle Flurry Upsets the Odds at White Hart Lane

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Match Report: Late Newcastle Flurry Upsets the Odds at White Hart Lane After a 4-1 win over Ligue 1 side Monaco on Thursday, Tottenham welcomed relegation fodder Newcastle to White Hart Lane in a bid to maintain their 14-game premier League unbeaten run. A jagged Spurs though were unable to extend this streak as the away side upset the odds to secure an important 2-1 w...

Player Focus: Jack Colback - Not Pirlo or Cattermole but Somewhere In Between

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Player Focus: Jack Colback - Not Pirlo or Cattermole but Somewhere In Between Who’s the most booked player in the Premier League since summer 2013? If you said Lee Cattermole then there’s no prizes for originality and he’s only second anyway. Gareth Barry is third, Branislav Ivanovic fourth and Fernandinho fifth but, thanks to a needless foul on Roberto Firm...

Match Focus: Can Lowly Newcastle Halt Impressive Liverpool Progress?

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Match Focus: Can Lowly Newcastle Halt Impressive Liverpool Progress? In what is a highly-aniticipated Premier League fixture given the matches played out between the two over the years, and arguably the most attention grabbing this coming gameweek, Newcastle host Liverpool in Sunday’s late kick off. The two teams come into this fixture is contrasting form, ...

Team Focus: Clueless McClaren Struggling to Fix Broken Newcastle

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Team Focus: Clueless McClaren Struggling to Fix Broken Newcastle As easy as Newcastle United were to completely pull apart, it was hard to know decide was worse about Saturday’s destruction at Selhurst Park - the hapless performance of the players at Crystal Palace on Saturday, or Steve McClaren’s deeply unimpressive attempt to talk around the logisti...

Player Focus: Ayoze Form Helping Newcastle Pull Away From Danger

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Player Focus: Ayoze Form Helping Newcastle Pull Away From Danger “Newcastle feels like home for me.” Traditionally, Newcastle has been one of the more welcoming cities in England, so Ayoze Pérez’s words will have buoyed supporters of one of English football’s most renowned clubs. In the wake of reported interest from Manchester Unit...

Team Focus: Newcastle's Defensive Frailties Undermining Progress Under McClaren

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Team Focus: Newcastle's Defensive Frailties Undermining Progress Under McClaren Earlier in the season, Jose Mourinho deemed Chelsea’s 3-0 defeat to Manchester City a “fake” result. He felt City’s win flattered the home side in a scoreline that did not tell the whole story at the Etihad Stadium. The term could not be more applicable when analysing Sunday&...

Match Focus: Big Sam Gunning for Glory on Stadium of Light Bow

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Match Focus: Big Sam Gunning for Glory on Stadium of Light Bow Already looking likely to be a crucial battle ahead of a potential relegation scrap, there is more than mere bragging rights up for grabs in Sunday's Wear-Tyne derby. The game not only reignites a fierce rivalry but also represents Sam Allardyce's first game in charge of the Black Cats at the Stadiu...

League Focus: Analysing the Correlation of Shots and League Standings

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League Focus: Analysing the Correlation of Shots and League Standings When Egil Olsen was manager of Norway, he would insist that fans and journalists paid attention not only to the score, but to shots on goal. You couldn’t, he reasoned, trust a 1-0 win if you’d had one shot and the opposition had had 10, and equally you couldn’t get too down over a ...