February 2012
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Download The Site Sheets....NUFC 2012
Get downloading our 2012 compilation so far - 50+ pages of NUFC related guff - in glorious technicolour (pdf format - 7Mb), perfect for that spare 2 mins with your kindles, iPads or god forbid laptops!
LINK HERE
Prospective writers who have emailed in, we will be in touch soon for Volume.2!
Football writers....needed.
As you may have seen on our twitter feed, we are looking for writers….this is the reason why….
Once every few month, we aim to release a PDF document as a retrospective of everything that has been going on at Seats HQ….this document will contain all the postings, pictures, 5 word reviews..basically everything that is on the site (in glorious technicolour), we have batted this...
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Zambia do it...
So the African Cup of Nations is now over, the favourites the star studded Ivory Coast team fall short at the last to a spirited Zambia side, who had ghosts of the past to exorcise in the Gabonese capital of Libreville.
All thoughts pre-match were with the Zambian team of 1993 who were tragically killed when a military aircraft carrying the national squad plunged into the Atlantic Ocean killing...
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THFC 5-0 NUFC
It truly was Shite Hart Lane for Pardew’s Mags last night as the patched-up midfield surrendered meekly in front of a rampant Spurs to remind Harry Redknapp just what he’ll be leaving behind should he take on the world’s biggest football job at England.
Pardew tried to go attacking, with a 4-4-2 allowing the Dembii to start together for the first time, but all of the pre-game...
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Spuds (a) - 11th Feb 2012...
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Match Preview & Predictions - Spurs (A) - Premier...
This weekend’s game see’s us play tax dodger supremo and future England manager Harry Redknapp’s Spurs.
Spurs are currently the second most in-form team in the league, along with that shower of shite down the road in terms of results.
Unlike their game on Monday night against Racistpool, Spurs are thought to a few of their absentee’s back, whilst we are still without Tiote (ACON) and Cabaye...
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Mackem Boom/Bust Cycle - February 2012
The boom/bust cycle remains very much in full swing, and as you can probably already tell, we’re heading (if not already there) into the very height of the cycle, where optimism regarding the derby will be coming to a crescendo in the next month.
What you will see and hear:
‘Better squad on paper’
‘Your bubble is bursting’
‘Played no-one’
‘Put...
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Would you like to sponsor the Seats...
We are looking after a Sponsor to help us cover the costs of our podcast hosting and advertising. Here’s what we are after… £25 per month from a company, preferably local (Tyneside) and preferably with something in common, football, beer, pies etc… This will get you in return a logo / advertisement on our front page the months paid for, it will also get you a mention on our...
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Safe Standing Anyone...
The Safe-Standing campaign was discussed at the NUFC Fans meeting last night.
The site in question is here - http://www.safestandingroadshow.co.uk/home
It’s a great site with all the details about rail seating and how it relates to current legislation. Thanks to Andrew M.S. for this (via Z)
A Picture of Shola Ameobi in a tractor
…while his brother smiles from below alongside some dude balancing a grey slug on his lip and a mini Peter Ramage.
Some things don’t need any further explanation.
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North East Football Writers' Association Awards...
On Sunday night, the region’s football community came together to celebrate the very best of the 2010/2011 football season and to raise funds for the Sir Bobby Robson Foundation. Sponsored by Barclays, the 2011 North East Football Writers’ Association awards dinner at Ramside Hall in Durham is a regular highlight in the region’s football calendar and this...
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New Zealand Magpies...Get in Touch!
All we have been in contact witha fellow magpie from 11,000 miles away in New Zealand by the name of @MagFansNZ - who has recently joined twitter to look and to engage for Magpies in New Zealand and across the world.
A bit of background on NZMag, a Newcastle fan currently exiled in Auckland (for last 15 years), New Zealand. Not actually a Geordie lad though, as he was born in Hartlepool....
Mark Lawrenson - The Greatest Tipster Ever... →
Click on the link to see Lawrensons outstanding predictions this season.
Thanks Pete D for the link.
Touché...
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NUFC 2-1 AVFC: Your #5WordReviews
There were, to put it mathematically, a fuckton of #5WordReviews sent to us yesterday and today. Here are our favourites:
@lovetheturret: Double Dembas doesn’t disappoint…like @David_Mullan: Ciss9 gets lost in warmup! @Doddsy9: I love the Double Dembas @howay51: Dembas went in two by two (that’s 6 but who cares?) @AndrewBThompson: Perch is Busquets in disguise @SamBaldwin19:...
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NUFC 2-1 AVFC
A wonderful debut strike from Papiss Demba Cissé gave Pardew’s Mags another crucial home three points to keep the charge for - don’t snigger - the Champions League places on track.
Pardew shuffled his pack again, this time starting with a midfield of Raylor, Guthrie, Perch and Jonas in a four-man midfield, with Leon Best partnering the returning Demba Ba up front, only for him to lose...
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BRFC 0-2 NUFC
United snuck away with a rare three points from Ewood on Wednesday night as an goal from Scott Dann and a first for Gabriel Obertan gave Pardew’s Mags a 2-0 victory.
Fortune favoured us for the first time in a while, and shone on Ryan Taylor when his strike from outside the area took a wicked deflection off Scott Dann and wrong footed Paul Robinson to give a 12th minute lead.
Blackburn...
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The night before the morning after....
Your wife decides to go out with her friends on a girls night dancing…. You’re okay with it, because you get to watch sports all night…. You hear her stumble into bed around 4am and laugh knowing she’s Going to have a monster hangover…. You wake up next morning and go outside to the family Volvo, which She used last night… You sigh in relief because...
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An Evening With David Ginola...
…”Cos he’s worth it!”
Our friends at Players Inc have asked us to plug an event for them, which we are happy to oblige.
Next round is on you Steve.
Many football dinners are an excuse for a lads night out in Newcastle these days, but Players Inc Events are looking to buck the trend with their latest event set to take place later this year. An Evening with David Ginola...
January 2012
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BHAFC 1-0 NUFC
On a cold January’s night in Brighton, United yet again tumbled out of the FA Cup to lower league opposition in a meek and feeble manner.
Just as we did at Stevenage last year, we surrendered our last chance of silverware for another season, this time to the irritating scrote Gus Poyet and his ragbag team of limited but passionate players.
United lined up with only one change from Fulham,...
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Match Preview & Predictions - Brighton (A) - FA...
After last weekend’s second half capitulation to Fulham we face a stern test down the south coast against a decent Brighton team. With the team currently on a ‘refresh’ break in Tenerife, Newcastle will be looking to bounce back from Saturday’s terrible second half display. Gus Poyet (still despise this prick for those goals in that semi-final) is in the dugout for them and former Newcastle...
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Can you Name Them...
Do you think you could name the 10 ENGLAND players that have played for Newcastle United (on the books) when they have played in a major tournament (in the sqaud!), i.e. The World Cup or European Championships. You have 8 minutes on the clock…
Link to the game here
Are Newcastle One Season Wonders?
Story courtesy of The Telegraphs Luke Edwards.
I will be honest, if you had told me in August Newcastle United would be sixth in the table in the middle of January, above Liverpool and level on points with Arsenal, I would have smiled politely, shook my head and walked off safe in the knowledge you had absolutely no idea what you were talking about.
There will be some who claim they always...
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FFC 5-2 NUFC: Your #5WordReviews
After Saturday’s capitulation at the Cottage, here are your #5WordReviews:
@johnnylilley Winning till Gaz turned up (Yep - sorry!) @Ludachris14: A game of two halves @JamJarWilkie: It’s time for fooking beer @blufescu74: Dempsey demolishes dire defending demonstration! @CHNOSotP: Three points forfeited. Moving on. @WeAreTheMags: There’s only one Eff-in Fulham @NufcKev: What the...
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FFC 5-2 NUFC
The Jekyll and Hyde United rocked up at Craven Cottage yesterday as we dominated a very average Fulham side in the first half then capitulated to an invigorated Fulham in the second.
Leading 1-0 at half time through a Danny Guthrie goal, Pardew’s Mags managed to throw it all away in a spectacular fashion, conceding five goals in a half with only one Hatem Ben Arfa strike to comfort the...
Could Ba be top Premier League scorer? →
Click the link, but here is Goal.com ‘s thoughts on the chase for the golden boot.
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Match Preview & Predictions - Fulham (A) - Premier...
Saturday’s game against Fulham comes on the back of three United back to back home wins in January (League & FA Cup respectively). In a traditional 3pm kick off, we face a Fulham team who are having a mixed season in terms of results, however look to be a steady side at home. Only 3 teams have maximum points at Craven Cottage so far this term. Along with Ba, Tiote and new signing Papiss...
“NEWCASTLE United star Hatem Ben Arfa is to be sued for libel after claiming he...”
– The Shields Gazette publish the weirdest story of the year!
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Incoming?
Looks like we have a striker incoming after all, as Papiss Cisse allegedly jetted into town to become our first January signing.
Knowing diddly-squat about him, we’d like to say how delighted we are with his signing, and how excited we are to see him finally strutting his stuff in the black and white stripes*.
*Unless it all falls through, in which case we’d never heard of him, so...
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The 2012 African Cup of Nations
So it’s finally here, the 2012 CAF starts on Saturday. We all know that Tiote and Ba have jetted off to take place in Africas International showpiece. Here are the dates for your diarys….more updates to follow as we progress.
All times stated are West Africa Time (UTC+1)
21st Jan Equitorial Guinea v Libya (opening game) 19:30 Senegal v Zambia 22:00 22nd Jan Côte d’Ivoire v...
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NUFC 1-0 QPRFC
United made hard work of turning over Mark Hughes’ new QPR side, but beat them they did at an abso-fucking-lutely baltic SJP this afternoon.
Despite his wonder goal last week, Hatem dropped to the bench with Ryan Taylor starting out wide right and Danny Guthrie starting in the middle, while Shola and Best started up top.
QPR had the best of the chances, with both the irritating Jay...
Honorary Seaters updated - click link →
New 2012 inductees added.
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Ask the Seats, you certainly did....
We opened up our twitter stream this evening between 7 and 8 and invited you to #AskTheSeats and you did, we all had a good laugh answering your questions, some serious and some not so serious.
Here are some of the corkers
how many brick walls would it take to stop tiote running at full tilt?
How many times has the Bat-Mobil (Bat-Man’s Car) had a flat Tyre?
do u guys know anything about...
The road is long....
and for the Magpies it’s usually the longest possible.
Confirmed by the club that our fourth round FA Cup tie away at Brighton or Wrexham will be live on ESPN on Sat 28th January, kicking at 5.15pm
ESPN and TV couldnt give a flying flip about fans, plus ESPN are shit at what they do.
Good Luck if your planning to go.
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Ask The Seats....This Friday
This Friday (13th January ), we will be available to answer your questions LIVE. Anything at all you want to ask us feel free, anything you want some agony aunt assistance with or anything you would like us to feature or run on the site…then now is the time to tweet up…we will be tweeting live between 7 and 8pm.
Best tweets questions qill go up on the site, we look forward to tweeting...
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Harry Redknapp: Candle-faced kernt...
A propos nothing at all, here are some, entirely random, quotes from Harry Redknapp:
“Samba’s a good player. A real good player. I like the pair of them”
When asked about Chris Samba and Gary Cahill - neither of them Spurs players
Demba Ba’s done great hasn’t he? Everybody’s looking at him suddenly.
Newcastle United’s Demba Ba that is
I’ve always...
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NUFC 2-1 BRFC: Your #5WordReviews
Here are your #5WordReviews for Saturday’s 2-1 win over Blackburn:
@tomlowson: HBA with Ba mint potential @Grappa_King: Shite match 2 great goals @krisbainy: Lay off Obertan kernts @themanmellow: Who’s been drinking my syrup? @Zadeh7: He’s here, there, everywhere…SPIDERMAN! @Jobey07: Finally he’s up and Hatem @Ludachris14: Shola, Shola, Shola, Shola, Shola @tomnufc:...
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Match Preview & Predictions - QPR (H) - Premier...
On the back of two home games, comes an unusual third in a row this Sunday.
Live on Sky for the second time in quick succession we face the now Colin Wanker-less ‘Super Hoops’ at home.
“The Joey Barton Show” and Traore are set to miss out for them, along with Ba and Tiote for us. Danny Simpson was taken off with a slight shoulder injury on Saturday.
Our Thoughts: @therealrobbo: - The focus...