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THE SPECIAL - Fulham Away
1+ hour, 36+ min ago (462+ words) Last time we were here in these circumstances, we were caught between uncertainty and optimism as Rafa seemed to have finally discovered the optimum arrangement of his undersized blanket. After an uninspiring campaign, we finished on a high with three…...
TF Preview - Fulham (a) 24 May 2026
1+ day, 37+ min ago (448+ words) Sunday 24th May 2026, 4pm So, we are here again. Another season at an end. How was it for you? !? Actually, don't answer that. Sunday sees Eddie take his troops along the Thames to Craven Cottage for the deadest of dead rubbers. Not…...
TF Preview - Nottingham Forest (a), 10 May 2026
2+ week, 1+ day ago (643+ words) A few months ago, I think any Newcastle fan would've looked at this weekend's game with a cautious amount of optimism. A struggling relegation side, played at a ground where we've had repeated successes over the years, in the middle…...
Benched! - True Faith - Independent NUFC Fanzine
2+ week, 2+ day ago (1235+ words) In the early nineties ex-Newcastle (plus twenty eight other clubs) goalkeeper John Burridge had a shop in the now bulldozed Newgate Shopping Centre called the "Subs Bench. Get a load of this, hipsters. It sold football shirts, tracksuits, and boots…...
Review - The Roaring Red Front - The World's Top Left Leaning Football Clubs - Stewart Mc Gill & Vincent Raison
2+ week, 3+ day ago (467+ words) When I clocked this I thought it would be right up my street. I do look at life mostly through a left-wing perspective I suppose, though there are some who would probably dispute I'm far from a deep shade of…...
THE SPECIAL - Brighton at home.
3+ week, 1+ day ago (607+ words) Into May we go, then. When the takeover happened, all I really wanted was for us to still have things to play for in this particular month. I did not think it would be Premier League survival. Then again, nor…...
TF Preview - Brighton (h) 2 May 2026
3+ week, 1+ day ago (506+ words) I'm going to be honest. Call me "Steve Naive', but I never thought it would be this shit again. In my mind, our brave new world meant that a bad season would be finishing in the Conference League position. However,…...
Blame Game #3 - The Manager
1+ mon, 21+ hour ago (937+ words) So it falls to me - possibly due to views expressed on the podcast and in further writing here - to discus whether blame should lie with a specific person within the organisation that now calls itself Newcastle United. I understand that…...
Myths of the Managerial Merry-Go-Round
1+ mon, 2+ day ago (489+ words) Like so much that passes for discussion and debate these days, assertions about the quality (or otherwise) of football managers are generally, not to put too fine a point on it, bollocks. To develop this further, the quality of a…...
1996 And All That - True Faith - Independent NUFC Fanzine
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (1905+ words) Isn't it so Newcastle United that the most written about subject in a generation is a glorious failure? 1995-96 ultimately was a failure and a glorious one, but it was much more than that. It was the season that found the…...