Author Profile - Graham Porter ( 9596 Posts )

Alan Pardew will only play Colo if he thinks his groin injury is ok, while also revealing something about the player’s character in that Coloccini himself is happy to put himself on the pitch whatever the risk of further injury and has already done it this season.

Senegal match will actually kick-off at 8.15pm not advertised 7pm, don’t ask me!

Big news is Papiss Cissé and Demba Ba line up together but in reportedly very wet and barely playable conditions.

Demba Ba; Often, you can close your eyes, hit and score. Sometimes, you try every trick in the book but the ball refuses to go in”.

Rumour has it that Alan Pardew will be passing on this valuable advice to our ‘goalscorers’ currently not in Africa.

Over the years there have been any number of bogus shirt designs floated before we see the actual real thing.

At first glance the supposed new home shirt isn’t too bad but as for the rest!

With Tomkins signing long-term deal at West Ham, rumours switch to Adrian Mariappa at Watford.

The 5 ft 10 centre-back is aged 25 and only has 18 months left on his contract but I suppose question is whether he is better than Williamson, or even Perch?

Alan Pardew; “Hatem Ben Arfa has the ability to become a ‘legend’ at Newcastle United, the challenge is for Hatem to get in this team”.

With the likely exclusion of Cabaye through injury, surely today is the time to embrace the talent that is Ben Arfa and give him his start.

Brilliant Video footage as we look back in time to 1989 and Micky Quinn’s legendary debut, thanks to The Mag’s YouTube channel.

Step forward Micky Quinn, now radio pundit, racehorse trainer, occasional dieter and the grandson of Italian boxer Luigi Silvano.

Tickets for our FA Cup 4th Round tie against Championship side Brighton go on sale at 2pm today, call NUFC ticket office on 08443721892 or visit the official website at www.nufc.co.uk (though that section wasn’t working when we tried earlier!).

Newcastle United defenders Danny Simpson and James Perch visited St. George’s RC Primary School in Lemington, Newcastle this week to re launch a major Newcastle United health and wellbeing initiative.

When recently asked about this transfer window time of the year Alan Pardew commented – “It’s a horrible time for managers!!!”.

With the imminent signing of Cissé it confirms I wouldn’t like to play cards with Alan Pardew!