Author Profile - Greg McPeake ( 170 Posts )

Back in the early 1980s, there was the conundrum of buying the latest cutting edge sounds from Listen Ear, or paying in to stand on the concrete terracing of St…

Can a footballer be worth 150 million pounds? I hear that a certain Newcastle United player is valued at that. Is it relevant? Is it true? Well, in my job…

It was 35 years ago now that Sky TV got its hands on English football and turned it into the monster that it is now. Prior to that, it was…

Great article (‘Our trip to Celtic – My three different takes on the day’) by Tony Malabar on The Mag on Sunday, which included a photo of flares and flags…

The Summer term is coming to an end, exam season is over, but there is now the annual Sports Day. Yes, they still exist and no, everyone is not a…

The Comedian and TV comedy writer Kevin Day interviewed Mick Buckley, the chairman of AFC Wimbledon, in a recent podcast that I listened to. In the podcast, he thanked Newcastle…

I am a big fan of Bertolt Brecht, who actually isn’t one of the countless Newcastle United summer transfer targets, he was actually a talented German poet and playwright. One…

Last Newcastle United game of the season for me was Ipswich Town at St James’ Park. Me and the too smart for his own good teenager had managed to get…

I had grown up watching Newcastle United by paying in at the turnstiles, no thought of season tickets or membership back then. In 1986 I moved to Nottingham, that was…

I read a good article on The Mag the other day about Newcastle United fans and tickets for the friendly at Celtic, it referenced the Eighties and being able to…