True Faith

We know the story by now. At the peak of his powers and having just won the European Cup – for younger readers, a kind of Champions League that wasn’t shit, included only real actual Champions, and wasn’t just about money – Kevin Keegan surprised everyone by leaving Liverpool and upping sticks to Hamburg. A...

Having already taken a look at the state of the current squad (see link to Part 1 below), SAM BRUIN looks at how things could develop from here.  January is going to be quite a month...

NUWFC 2 – Boro 0 (1-0 HT) Att: 1,428, PoTM: Hannah Greenwood *** Today’s match was the third in a series of local derbies, having faced Sunderland and Durham previously. Boro currently are fifth in National League – Division One North (Tier 4), four points off leaders Leeds and play at the Bishopton Road West...

The stat that is rattling around Newcastle United discussion is two wins in eleven Premier League matches. For those who are fond of that type of thing there are several versions of various stats but you don’t really need to go down those rabbit-holes because you can simply look at the PL table and trust...

It’s a mess. And I could be talking about every aspect of the club at the moment. There’s been inconsistencies from top to bottom since we qualified for the Champions League, arguably since the takeover. What is going on with the ownership? Who is making the calls? Do we have any money? Can we spend...

Thanks to Steve Wallwork in the away end at Brentford After a game like that, it’s very difficult to not judge players on the entire 90 minutes as opposed to the appalling second half. Like team/ managers, it’s based on results and that one will hurt for a while. It really was abysmal. So rating...

The mood on the way down was one of typical Mag caution. If we’d won here, we’d have created a new record of successive league wins against one club. Fans of a certain vintage know that sets off alarm bells. News filtered through of the rotation of Gordon and Tonali, both of whom contributing wholly...

Brentford vs NUFC: Premiership 2024/5 Game 15 for the Mags: W5 D5 L4 Date: Saturday 7 December 2024, 3pm at the Gtech Stadium, West London; no live TV apart from JoeLinton’s dodgy FireStick. Quizzy Rascal: What is the furthest round Brentford have been in the FA Cup? Football Trivia: Brentford’s rise up the league and...

Still basking in the warm glow of Wednesday's performance?  Time to be brought back to earth with a bump.  YOUSEF HATEM remembers a miserable defeat at Brentford in December 2020.

STEPHEN ORD (@smord84) with your TF match report as NUFC and LFC share six goals...