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Team Focus: Stagnating Newcastle in Danger of Losing Their Way with Pardew

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Team Focus: Stagnating Newcastle in Danger of Losing Their Way with Pardew The bare stats say enough, but haven’t yet led to the statement Newcastle United fans want most of all. They are clearly a club in crisis and great difficulty, but not yet looking for a manager. The question is whether the situation is genuinely terminal, and if it will finally lead to the ter...

Team Focus: Vast Changes May Bring Consistency to Newcastle

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Team Focus: Vast Changes May Bring Consistency to Newcastle The fate each season of Newcastle United has been by a distance the most difficult to predict Premier League history. While most teams tend to float around the same part of the table for a few years at least, the Magpies have barely established any degree of consistency in their position over the pa...

Player Focus: Exit of One Remy Paves Way for Another at Newcastle

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Player Focus: Exit of One Remy Paves Way for Another at Newcastle It's safe to say Newcastle weren't particularly excited by the return of Joe Kinnear in the role of Director of Football last summer. After an infamous radio interview the man that left the club in 2009 after just a four-month stint as manager was appointed to lead the club's transfer dealings.Kinne...

Premier League Focus: A Season of Two Halves

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Premier League Focus: A Season of Two Halves It is a game of two halves or so says the cliche used by managers to rally their players into a second half recovery after a poor showing in the first period of any given game. The nature of football means that any given match might well have two schizophrenically contrasting halves for those compet...

Player Focus: Form Without Rémy Shows Why Newcastle Must Sign Him

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Player Focus: Form Without Rémy Shows Why Newcastle Must Sign Him The appointment of Joe Kinnear as Newcastle’s director of football last summer surprised just about everyone assoicated with the game. The former defender had been out of work since 2009 and his return to the club came as a huge shock.Tasked with bringing in new faces, Kinnear oversaw just one...

Team Focus: Newcastle Must Rebuild After Kinnear Leaves Club in Disarray

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Team Focus: Newcastle Must Rebuild After Kinnear Leaves Club in Disarray In Soccernomics, authors Simon Kuper and Stefan Szymanski discuss the running of football clubs as businesses. Without giving too much away, they essentially conclude that those that invest in the world of football do not actually stand much chance of making big money, particularly in comparison to ...

Match Report: Lacklustre Newcastle Fall to Title Favourites Chelsea

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Match Report: Lacklustre Newcastle Fall to Title Favourites Chelsea Chelsea capitalised on Arsenal and Manchester City's dropped points on Saturday to move to the summit of the table, strengthening their title credentials in the process. On the back of the 1-0 victory in Manchester on Monday night, the Blues ensured they maintained their good run of form to dispatch...

WhoScored Tipster: The Weekend's Best Betting Tips

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WhoScored Tipster: The Weekend's Best Betting Tips With goals ensured in Spain, some predictable Premier League results and some tempting odds in Serie A, the focus of our accumulator is threefold.LIKELY BETSGranada vs Celta Vigo: BOTH TEAMS TO SCORE @1.80The odds are relatively high here given that Celta Vigo have have conceded in each of their las...

Match Focus: Debuchy & Santon Crucial In Newcastle's Win Over United

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Match Focus: Debuchy & Santon Crucial In Newcastle's Win Over United Prior to the weekend, the last time Newcastle United won a league game at Old Trafford, the mobile phone had yet to be invented, the Sydney Opera House was over 18 months away from completion and it would be over 5 years before current Tottenham head coach André Villas-Boas was born. The Magp...

Team Focus: Newcastle's Reliance on Hatem Ben Arfa

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Team Focus: Newcastle's Reliance on Hatem Ben Arfa As Alan Pardew reflected even before Newcastle United’s defeat to Everton on Monday, this has already been a very strange season for the club. They were excellent in beating Aston Villa and, had they beaten Hull City a week ago on Saturday, they would have gone third in the table. As it is, th...