Hundreds and maybe thousands of Toon fans congregate outside of St. James’ Park chanting “sack the board” and “Shepherd out” following United’s 1-0 defeat to Sheffield United.

A second half Danny Webber goal condemned Newcastle to our 7th defeat in just 10 Premiership games, a loss that sends us to second from bottom in the league with Sheffield United now out of the bottom three.

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It would appear that some things are put on this earth purely to remind us how old we are. As a kid growing up in the sticks of Northumberland, Saturday afternoons consisted of watching the wrestling at 4 o’clock followed by football results on the teleprinter, then at 5:30 it was Dr Who time.

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Glenn Roeder has criticised fixture congestion with the Toon playing 3 games in 6days. During the interview he made the following remarks - “we are competing in 4 competitions this year” and “We don’t have the size of squad required to be successful in those competitions”

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After United’s encouraging 1-0 win over Serie A high flyers Palermo, press reaction was, for once, positive to a much-improved performance from the lads…

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Steve Bennett of Orpington (Kent) takes charge of our vital clash with Sheffield United at St James Park later today.

Remarkably it is 3 and a half years since we last won a game refereed by Bennett, the derby at Sunderland in April 2003. Since then we have drawn 6 and lost 6 of the following 12 games.

His last trip to St. James’ Park was in September when he presided over our 1-1 draw with Everton, dismissing Titus Bramble and Tony Hibbert to leave both sides with 10 men.