Inside Newcastle United

Sometimes in life you get lucky....  While on vacation in the Bahamas recently, I ran into an 11 year old footballing genius on a deserted island.  Herewith, the first column from a boy who will be a legend someday -- Columnist Connor on Newcastle United:

Inside Newcastle United

Established…………………….. 1892

Manager……………………….. Alan Pardew

Nickname…..…………………..  The Magpies

Stadium…….…………………..   Sports Direct Arena

English Premier League Titles… 0

Position………………………… 6^th

Coming into Saturday’s game against Wolves, the Magpies were sixth in the EPL. The last time the Magpies met Wolves, it went our way with a 2-1 victory back on October 1^st.

50, 671 people attended that game, and, well, they saw a pretty spectacular contest. First half goals from Demba Ba (17^th minute) and Jonas Gutierrez (38^th minute) started the game off with triumph. Though, in the 88^th minute the stellar Magpie defense got a little lazy and let Steven Fletcher score a goal.

Newcastle, who had a fourth round exit at this year’s Carling Cup (which Liverpool just won), is in a position to make a late run. If they make that late run they would be gunning for the Europa League bid the EPL has to offer. Saturday’s game against Wolverhampton, though, did not help the cause, as it ended in a  2-2 draw. 

It started in the 6^th minute when Papiss Cisse (who had his Newcastle debut on February 5^th against Aston Villa) sent home a rocket. And only 12 minutes later Jonas Gutierrez scored, putting the Wolves upset chance down.

As the teams went to the break Magpie fans began to celebrate victory, but Matt Jarvis and Kevin Doyle from Wolves had other plans. They both sent in goals in the opening minutes of the second half. With the equalizer given, Newcastle Manager Alan Pardew made some substitutions. Striker Shola Ameobi came on in the 80^th minute for Chiek Tiote, after Danny Guthrie came in for Ryan Taylor.


Though the Magpies pressed hard in the final few minutes, they couldn't get a goal to finish Wolves off. Newcastle cannot continue to draw with bottom feeders like Wolves and still expect to go to the Champions League or even the Europa League in upcoming years.

And this is farlieonfootie telling you to remember that you saw this talent here first on March 1.