Author Profile - Greg McPeake ( 170 Posts )

I live in London but I am born and bred Newcastle (Grange Estate and Kingston Park). Living away from Newcastle poses problems regarding getting tickets to games. There has been…

First game of the season, a special moment, I had a piece published a while back on The Mag about first game of the season and last game and how…

The Newcastle United pre-season is all but gone. We are asking various regular / irregular Mag writers a number of questions ahead of this 2022/23 Premier League season, The idea…

I pour myself my usual morning coffee. It is the start of a new week and a thirteen year-old boy says to me “do you support them?” He’s referring to…

Just read a satirical article on The Mag entitled ‘Steve Bruce declares he can keep Newcastle out of League One’… It got me thinking. Being a Newcastle United fan in…

I have supported the club since the early seventies but have never been a Newcastle United season ticket holder. Recently, a small number of season tickets went on sale and…

Just read a great piece on The Mag about an away day at Stoke in the mid-90s where football related violence was on the go. I wasn’t there but heard…

First game of the season, last game of the season, there is something about it. What is it? The two Newcastle United games we all want to be at. I…

“Geordies here, Geordies there, Geordies every f……” The away day chant that always gave me goosebumps as a young lad. I recently wrote a piece on The Mag entitled ‘A…

Sack Jack! Sack Jack! The chant that made me realise what football (and Geordie humour) was all about. As a kid growing up on the Grange estate in Gosforth, I…