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Playing in the Premier League in front of 52,000 loyal fans would be a dream come true for most professional footballers.
Make the right impression at St James’ Park and you’ll go down in Geordie folklore – just ask Kevin Keegan’s group of Entertainers if you need any proof.
However, on occasions, a move to Tyneside has turned into a nightmare and for some their ill-fated spell with the club will be remembered for all the wrong reasons. Whether they were labelled a mercenary, showed a lack of commitment, or just never really clicked with the passionate supporters in the North East, certain players are likely to regret ever stepping foot on the hallowed turf.
Over the years there have definitely been quite a few flops turn out in the black and white stripes, but which wish they never signed on the dotted line?
Florian Thauvin...
Playing in the Premier League in front of 52,000 loyal fans would be a dream come true for most professional footballers.
Make the right impression at St James’ Park and you’ll go down in Geordie folklore – just ask Kevin Keegan’s group of Entertainers if you need any proof.
However, on occasions, a move to Tyneside has turned into a nightmare and for some their ill-fated spell with the club will be remembered for all the wrong reasons. Whether they were labelled a mercenary, showed a lack of commitment, or just never really clicked with the passionate supporters in the North East, certain players are likely to regret ever stepping foot on the hallowed turf.
Over the years there have definitely been quite a few flops turn out in the black and white stripes, but which wish they never signed on the dotted line?
Florian Thauvin...
- 2/23/2016
- by Jamie Roberts
- Obsessed with Film
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With talk in the media this weekend being about how decisions Newcastle United will make in the January transfer window ultimately being the key in deciding whether The Magpies stay up and avoid relegation this season… is an actual bigger decision for owner Mike Ashley than what players he should sign, being overshadowed?
Is in fact his biggest decision being whether Steve McClaren is the right man to steer his club to safety?
Ashley was unusually loyal to McClaren’s predecessor Alan Pardew. No matter how bad results got, no matter how loud the fan backlash was, no matter how close United looked on verge of oblivion with another relegation – he stood by his manager until that man eventually jumped ship for pastures new. Previous to that, Ashley wouldn’t hesitate to pull the trigger if things weren’t going well… Sam Allardyce famously lasting less...
With talk in the media this weekend being about how decisions Newcastle United will make in the January transfer window ultimately being the key in deciding whether The Magpies stay up and avoid relegation this season… is an actual bigger decision for owner Mike Ashley than what players he should sign, being overshadowed?
Is in fact his biggest decision being whether Steve McClaren is the right man to steer his club to safety?
Ashley was unusually loyal to McClaren’s predecessor Alan Pardew. No matter how bad results got, no matter how loud the fan backlash was, no matter how close United looked on verge of oblivion with another relegation – he stood by his manager until that man eventually jumped ship for pastures new. Previous to that, Ashley wouldn’t hesitate to pull the trigger if things weren’t going well… Sam Allardyce famously lasting less...
- 12/29/2015
- by Matt Holmes
- Obsessed with Film
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We are almost a quarter of the way through the Barclay’s Premier League season and personally I wouldn’t mind if we all just forgot about the first eight games and started the whole thing again? I mean, it has been ridiculous hasn’t it? Everyone is beating everyone, Chelsea are sitting in sixteenth place (for reasons that nobody can properly explain) and a load of players who are supposed to be really good are currently imitating Bruno Cheyrou.
The Premier League is no longer the physical, competitive and effortlessly watchable juggernaut that it once was and it now resembles a floundering boxer, still fighting despite being way past its best and earning enough in sponsorship to put up with the jabs to the face from vastly improved european fighters.
It’s difficult to analyse why the standard has significantly dropped and despite it still...
We are almost a quarter of the way through the Barclay’s Premier League season and personally I wouldn’t mind if we all just forgot about the first eight games and started the whole thing again? I mean, it has been ridiculous hasn’t it? Everyone is beating everyone, Chelsea are sitting in sixteenth place (for reasons that nobody can properly explain) and a load of players who are supposed to be really good are currently imitating Bruno Cheyrou.
The Premier League is no longer the physical, competitive and effortlessly watchable juggernaut that it once was and it now resembles a floundering boxer, still fighting despite being way past its best and earning enough in sponsorship to put up with the jabs to the face from vastly improved european fighters.
It’s difficult to analyse why the standard has significantly dropped and despite it still...
- 10/16/2015
- by Matt Smith
- Obsessed with Film
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The inquest into Newcastle United’s capitulation at The Etihad Stadium last weekend continues to rumble on. However, the reason for The Magpies’ second half collapse has been staring us all in the face for some time…
Steve McClaren’s hair is to blame, and here’s why…
No one knows what was said in that United dressing room at half time; although we can surmise that Steve doused the majority of his squad in booze and sleeping pills at the very least as the Magpies proceeded to stop everything they did so well in the first period.
Standing at around 5 ft 10 inches tall Steve isn’t the tallest guy around, so one thing we can guarantee is that his team talk was conducted with the entire squad up on their feet. Why? Because they followed a tactical framework that mother nature has laid upon the former England manager’s bonce.
The inquest into Newcastle United’s capitulation at The Etihad Stadium last weekend continues to rumble on. However, the reason for The Magpies’ second half collapse has been staring us all in the face for some time…
Steve McClaren’s hair is to blame, and here’s why…
No one knows what was said in that United dressing room at half time; although we can surmise that Steve doused the majority of his squad in booze and sleeping pills at the very least as the Magpies proceeded to stop everything they did so well in the first period.
Standing at around 5 ft 10 inches tall Steve isn’t the tallest guy around, so one thing we can guarantee is that his team talk was conducted with the entire squad up on their feet. Why? Because they followed a tactical framework that mother nature has laid upon the former England manager’s bonce.
- 10/9/2015
- by Ross Tweddell
- Obsessed with Film
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What seems to be the problem at Newcastle United? Last season there was a plethora of excuses to choose from and each would swerve attention away from the first team squad and instead splat the blame all over Mike Ashley’s perverse desire to see his staff at Sports Direct work harder than his under-performing number nine.
Ashley’s cavalier approach was a welcome distraction that deflected attention away from the ninety minutes on the football pitch and savagely etched its narrative into Newcastle fans’ minds. Tyneside became infected with commercial bile, sub plots and cries of revolution and left football – the one thing that once brought the whole city together – gasping for air as it slipped into John Carver-induced coma.
Ashley agreed to bring in some urgent medical attention but rather than shelling out for some premium overseas healthcare he turned to an unemployed Derbyshire...
What seems to be the problem at Newcastle United? Last season there was a plethora of excuses to choose from and each would swerve attention away from the first team squad and instead splat the blame all over Mike Ashley’s perverse desire to see his staff at Sports Direct work harder than his under-performing number nine.
Ashley’s cavalier approach was a welcome distraction that deflected attention away from the ninety minutes on the football pitch and savagely etched its narrative into Newcastle fans’ minds. Tyneside became infected with commercial bile, sub plots and cries of revolution and left football – the one thing that once brought the whole city together – gasping for air as it slipped into John Carver-induced coma.
Ashley agreed to bring in some urgent medical attention but rather than shelling out for some premium overseas healthcare he turned to an unemployed Derbyshire...
- 10/7/2015
- by Matt Smith
- Obsessed with Film
Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, gives a hug to a lillte girl as she visits the at Alder Hey Children's Hospital, in Liverpool, Britain, 14 February 2012. The Duchess of Cambridge then visited Alder Hey Children's Foundation Trust to be given a tour of facilities including the Intra Operative Mri Scanner, the Oncology Unit and the Burns Unit. Epa/Peter Powell Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, is welcomed by children as she visits the Alder Hey Children's Hospital, in Liverpool, Britain, 14 February 2012. The Duchess of Cambridge then visited Alder Hey Children's Foundation Trust to be given a tour of facilities including the Intra Operative Mri Scanner, the Oncology Unit and the Burns Unit. Epa/Peter Powell Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, meets staff, volunteers and families...
- 2/14/2012
- by James Wray
- Monsters and Critics
Forget Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee! There was one actor who truly epitomised classic Hammer horror, and that was the irreplaceable Michael Ripper. With a whopping 23 films to his name, he was to Hammer what Desmond Llewellyn was to James Bond.
Michael Ripper was born in Portsmouth on 27 January 1913. His father Harold was a civil servant who ran a local amateur dramatic company and taught elocution and speech therapy, his mother Edith worked as a teacher. Ripper had a very unhappy Victorian childhood; his dominant father was very much a stern disciplinarian.
A pupil of Portsmouth Grammar School, which he hated, Ripper was more or less pushed into acting by his father, who entered him in various poetry competitions. A close family friend and regular visitor to their Southsea home was the brilliant comic actor Alastair Sim.
Though he initially Ripper never wanted to be an actor, Ripper was eventually...
Michael Ripper was born in Portsmouth on 27 January 1913. His father Harold was a civil servant who ran a local amateur dramatic company and taught elocution and speech therapy, his mother Edith worked as a teacher. Ripper had a very unhappy Victorian childhood; his dominant father was very much a stern disciplinarian.
A pupil of Portsmouth Grammar School, which he hated, Ripper was more or less pushed into acting by his father, who entered him in various poetry competitions. A close family friend and regular visitor to their Southsea home was the brilliant comic actor Alastair Sim.
Though he initially Ripper never wanted to be an actor, Ripper was eventually...
- 2/2/2011
- Shadowlocked
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