• My plan for this blog!

    I have had this blog for quite a number of years now but never properly used it. I have transferred across some match reports that I have written from a different blog and it has a few session plans and my general thoughts about football coaching. Going forward I am going to try and put Read more

  • England 2013/14 – Home Kit

    When it was announced that England and The FA signed a new deal with Nike, moving away from Umbro after pretty much forever everyone has been waiting to see what the new strips are going to look like. The first to be released is the new home strip. My initial thoughts about the shirt were Read more

  • NUFC 2 – 1 Spurs

    The first Premier League game of the 2012/2013 saw Tottenham Hotspur make the journey up to St James Park (I refuse to call it by that other name, you know the official name) for a 5:30pm kick off. Yes we had to wait until 5:30pm on a Saturday tea time instead of the traditional and Read more

  • Newcastle 2 – 2 Spurs

    Another game at St James Park against a Spurs side who have had a pretty good start to the season as well. Also a team we always play well against at home, usually producing some very good matches, this one was no different really. The first half we saw some good play, but lack of Read more

  • Wolves 1 – 2 Newcastle

    Our fantastic start to the season continued with a 2-1 win over Wolves. Although the scoreline makes it sound a lot closer than it actually was. Although at the end of the game Wolves did have the ball in the back of the net which would have made it 2-2. But before that we really Read more

  • Newcastle 3 – 1 Blackburn

    It had felt like forever since we had a home league game, after a few away games. We don’t usually have the best of times at home against Blackburn. They have a very impressive record playing at St James Park, over the past few seasons. Coming out on top quite a few times, but things Read more

Quote of the week

"People ask me what I do in the winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring."

~ Rogers Hornsby