28-03-2018, 22:09
(This post was last modified: 02-04-2018, 21:42 by Lord Snooty.)
Newcastle United v Huddersfield Town
The Premier League
Sunday March 31st - 15:00 ko
at Sid James's Park
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The Premier League
Sunday March 31st - 15:00 ko
at Sid James's Park
Huddersfield Town travel north to Newcastle Utd on Saturday for yet another so called relegation 6 pointer.
Along with the regular names missing, we can now add the names of Aaron Mooy and Philip Billing to the doubtful list after they both returned early from international duty, hopefully as a precaution, but knowing our bad luck with injuries this season, it could be bad news. How many injuries have we had this season? Too many!
Newcastle also had an international player return early this week. Matt Ritchie left the Scotland camp prematurely with an alleged injury but was shown on Sky Sports News today taking part in a full training session. They do however have a few more rated as "unlikely" for Saturday. Rob Elliot, Karl Darlow, Islam Slimani, Jesús Gámez Duarte all with nothing too trivial, we hope.
A brief history of Newcastle United: formed in the 1890s when Newcastle East End and Newcastle West End merged to become Newcastle United, gained entry to the Football League in 1893. They won promotion to the 1st division in 1898.
In the years before the 1st World war, they won the league title three times (not in a row obviously) and won the FA Cup in 1910, beating Barnsley in the final.
After the war, they won the Cup again, beating Aston Villa in 1924. And in 1927, they were the team who stopped Town winning a 4th consecutive league title, beating us in the table by 5 points. Like us, they have never won it since.
They won the Cup again in 1932, beating Arsenal, but by the end of the decade, as the next war began, they had been relegated and were near the foot of the 2nd division.
After the war, they won the Cup three more times, beating Blackpool in 1951, Arsenal in 1952, and Manchester City in 1955.
The 1960s saw them relegated again, promoted again and by the end of the decade they were playing in Europe, winning the club's last major trophy to date when the won the Inter City Fairs Cup (this was what eventually transformed into the modern day Europa League) in 1969.
Last season they won the Championship.
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Head to Head
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Newcastle lead in the overall head to head with 26 wins to Town's 22, with 15 draws.
The image of the match programme above, is from the last time we beat Newcastle at home (before this season). It was on the 28th of December 1963 and we won 3-0 in a 2nd division match with Derek Stokes, Kevin Lewis and Chris Balderstone scoring. Of course since I wrote this piece for the home game (you may notice it's all the same stuff) we have beaten them at home, 1-0 with a goal from Aaron Mooy.
Both games in our last top flight season in 71/72 ended 0-0. Again, despite what people say about the old days, only 12,829 turned out for the home match.
Last season, we beat them at their place 2-1, surprisingly to a lot of people who had no idea what we were about. They know now! Goals that day were from Nahki Wells and Jack Payne. Dwight Gayle got their spawny goal, a rebound from his penalty which Danny Ward had saved.
In the home match it was the Toon who beat the Town 3-1. Matt Ritchie scored first from the penalty spot, before Daryl Murphy made it 2-0 after kicking the ball out of Ward's hands. The ref deemed it not to be a foul though, even though Ward had to go off injured. His replacement Joel Coleman unfortunately was at fault for their third, tapped home by Gayle. Earlier, Aaron Mooy had pulled one back for Town with a penalty.
There was a classic in the League Cup at Sid James' Park in 2009. Town were 3-1 up early in the second half, with two goals from Theo Robinson and one from Jordan Rhodes. But unfortunately we couldn't hold out and ended up losing 4-3.
Back in 1984, Newcastle came to Leeds Road needing a point to win promotion back to the 1st division. A crowd of 25,101 turned up to see the game, most of them geordies, and Town stormed into an early 2-0 lead with both goals coming from Graham Cooper. However, Newcastle came back to draw the match, giving them the point they needed.
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Town v Newcastle 1984
So what's new at Sid James' Park? Managed nowadays by Rafael Benítez, the former Liverpool manager. Most famous possibly for winning the Champions League with the Reds, but had a quite successful career in hotel management before football management, running the Don Carlos Hotel on the Costa Brava back in the 1970s.
He got his first footy manager's job at Real Madrid overseeing their B team before winning promotions with Extremadura and then Tenerife before landing a bigger club, Valencia. He won La Liga twice with them and the UEFA Cup, which eventually led onto a go at the Premier League with Liverpool. He never won the league with them, but did win the Champions League, despite not actually being Champions of anything, with a famous penalty shoot out win in 2005 against AC Milan. He also won the FA Cup with the Reds before moving to Italy and taking on the job with Inter Milan.
He was back in England in 2012 taking a caretaker's role at Chelsea for half a season, which they went on to lift the Europa League title, beating Benfica in the final. After his stint at the Bridge it was off to Napoli, then Real Madrid for half a season, before landing his current position at Newcastle, immediately getting them relegated from the Premier League, and then back up again.
But amongst footy fans up and down the country, it's his years as a waiter that they fondly remember him as best, seen here on the right in the TV documentary Duty Free, a show about the wonders of Spanish holidays, which was filmed in Rafa's hotel.
![[Image: fredom.jpg]](http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-6Q3xwlIDSFE/VCBLhULvzbI/AAAAAAAAIfA/qENt64QbdlE/s1600/fredom.jpg)
Recent form: Town are 15th in the Premier League with 31 points. Newcastle are in 13th with 32 points.
Last 6 matches:
Town 0-2 Crystal Palace
Town 0-0 Swansea
Spurs 2-0 Town
WBA 1-2 Town (van La Parra, Mounie)
Town 0-2 Man Utd
Town 4-1 Bournemouth (Pritchard, Mounie 2, van La Parra pen)
Toon 3-0 Southampton (Kenedy 2, Ritchie)
Liverpool 2-0 Toon
Bournemouth 2-2 Toon (Gayle 2)
Toon 1-0 Man Utd (Ritchie)
Crystal Palace 1-1 Toon (Diame)
Toon 1-1 Burnley (Lascelles)
Newcastle line up v Southampton:
12 Dubravka
22 Yedlin
6 Lascelles
20 Lejeune
3 Dummett
11 Ritchie
8 Shelvey
10 Diamé
15 Kenedy
17 Pérez
9 Gayle
Substitutes
2 Clark
7 Murphy
19 Manquillo
21 Joselu
23 Merino
26 Darlow
30 Atsu
![[Image: JS128332052.jpg]](https://i2-prod.examiner.co.uk/incoming/article13504665.ece/ALTERNATES/s615/JS128332052.jpg)
Along with the regular names missing, we can now add the names of Aaron Mooy and Philip Billing to the doubtful list after they both returned early from international duty, hopefully as a precaution, but knowing our bad luck with injuries this season, it could be bad news. How many injuries have we had this season? Too many!
Newcastle also had an international player return early this week. Matt Ritchie left the Scotland camp prematurely with an alleged injury but was shown on Sky Sports News today taking part in a full training session. They do however have a few more rated as "unlikely" for Saturday. Rob Elliot, Karl Darlow, Islam Slimani, Jesús Gámez Duarte all with nothing too trivial, we hope.
A brief history of Newcastle United: formed in the 1890s when Newcastle East End and Newcastle West End merged to become Newcastle United, gained entry to the Football League in 1893. They won promotion to the 1st division in 1898.
In the years before the 1st World war, they won the league title three times (not in a row obviously) and won the FA Cup in 1910, beating Barnsley in the final.
After the war, they won the Cup again, beating Aston Villa in 1924. And in 1927, they were the team who stopped Town winning a 4th consecutive league title, beating us in the table by 5 points. Like us, they have never won it since.
They won the Cup again in 1932, beating Arsenal, but by the end of the decade, as the next war began, they had been relegated and were near the foot of the 2nd division.
After the war, they won the Cup three more times, beating Blackpool in 1951, Arsenal in 1952, and Manchester City in 1955.
The 1960s saw them relegated again, promoted again and by the end of the decade they were playing in Europe, winning the club's last major trophy to date when the won the Inter City Fairs Cup (this was what eventually transformed into the modern day Europa League) in 1969.
Last season they won the Championship.
Head to Head
Newcastle lead in the overall head to head with 26 wins to Town's 22, with 15 draws.
The image of the match programme above, is from the last time we beat Newcastle at home (before this season). It was on the 28th of December 1963 and we won 3-0 in a 2nd division match with Derek Stokes, Kevin Lewis and Chris Balderstone scoring. Of course since I wrote this piece for the home game (you may notice it's all the same stuff) we have beaten them at home, 1-0 with a goal from Aaron Mooy.
Both games in our last top flight season in 71/72 ended 0-0. Again, despite what people say about the old days, only 12,829 turned out for the home match.
Last season, we beat them at their place 2-1, surprisingly to a lot of people who had no idea what we were about. They know now! Goals that day were from Nahki Wells and Jack Payne. Dwight Gayle got their spawny goal, a rebound from his penalty which Danny Ward had saved.
In the home match it was the Toon who beat the Town 3-1. Matt Ritchie scored first from the penalty spot, before Daryl Murphy made it 2-0 after kicking the ball out of Ward's hands. The ref deemed it not to be a foul though, even though Ward had to go off injured. His replacement Joel Coleman unfortunately was at fault for their third, tapped home by Gayle. Earlier, Aaron Mooy had pulled one back for Town with a penalty.
There was a classic in the League Cup at Sid James' Park in 2009. Town were 3-1 up early in the second half, with two goals from Theo Robinson and one from Jordan Rhodes. But unfortunately we couldn't hold out and ended up losing 4-3.
Back in 1984, Newcastle came to Leeds Road needing a point to win promotion back to the 1st division. A crowd of 25,101 turned up to see the game, most of them geordies, and Town stormed into an early 2-0 lead with both goals coming from Graham Cooper. However, Newcastle came back to draw the match, giving them the point they needed.
Town v Newcastle 1984
So what's new at Sid James' Park? Managed nowadays by Rafael Benítez, the former Liverpool manager. Most famous possibly for winning the Champions League with the Reds, but had a quite successful career in hotel management before football management, running the Don Carlos Hotel on the Costa Brava back in the 1970s.
He got his first footy manager's job at Real Madrid overseeing their B team before winning promotions with Extremadura and then Tenerife before landing a bigger club, Valencia. He won La Liga twice with them and the UEFA Cup, which eventually led onto a go at the Premier League with Liverpool. He never won the league with them, but did win the Champions League, despite not actually being Champions of anything, with a famous penalty shoot out win in 2005 against AC Milan. He also won the FA Cup with the Reds before moving to Italy and taking on the job with Inter Milan.
He was back in England in 2012 taking a caretaker's role at Chelsea for half a season, which they went on to lift the Europa League title, beating Benfica in the final. After his stint at the Bridge it was off to Napoli, then Real Madrid for half a season, before landing his current position at Newcastle, immediately getting them relegated from the Premier League, and then back up again.
But amongst footy fans up and down the country, it's his years as a waiter that they fondly remember him as best, seen here on the right in the TV documentary Duty Free, a show about the wonders of Spanish holidays, which was filmed in Rafa's hotel.
Recent form: Town are 15th in the Premier League with 31 points. Newcastle are in 13th with 32 points.
Last 6 matches:
Town 0-2 Crystal Palace
Town 0-0 Swansea
Spurs 2-0 Town
WBA 1-2 Town (van La Parra, Mounie)
Town 0-2 Man Utd
Town 4-1 Bournemouth (Pritchard, Mounie 2, van La Parra pen)
Toon 3-0 Southampton (Kenedy 2, Ritchie)
Liverpool 2-0 Toon
Bournemouth 2-2 Toon (Gayle 2)
Toon 1-0 Man Utd (Ritchie)
Crystal Palace 1-1 Toon (Diame)
Toon 1-1 Burnley (Lascelles)
Newcastle line up v Southampton:
12 Dubravka
22 Yedlin
6 Lascelles
20 Lejeune
3 Dummett
11 Ritchie
8 Shelvey
10 Diamé
15 Kenedy
17 Pérez
9 Gayle
Substitutes
2 Clark
7 Murphy
19 Manquillo
21 Joselu
23 Merino
26 Darlow
30 Atsu
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