Arsenal @ The Emirates - Tuesday 29th January 2008

It seems like we've lost a few comrades from the TiFosi stuff. I blame the cold. Note to missing TiFosi lads - sort yourselves man!


Ah well, same teams, same venue, same result. Arsenal really need to be seen as the benchmark of where we aspire to be. Their class shone and we never looked like being a real threat to them, I can't even be bothered to talk about the game.

In the past few days we have managed to not sign Jonathan Woodgate, who decided to go to Spurs instead. Now that is either going to be a huge mistake in not managing to get the lad up here, or the most sensible thing to happen at Newcastle all season, all depending on how his fitness holds out.

Then there is the appointment of Dennis Wise as "executive director on football-related matters", whatever that may be. Keegan has insisted that Wise answers to him, although he seemed as surprised as we did when asked about the appointment at his pre-match press conference. Tony Jimenez has been brought in as vice-president of player recruitment and Jeff Vetere from Real Madrid as technical co-ordinator. This signifies a whole new system being developed at Newcastle United and it will be interesting to see how this works.

Up next is the Boro, and we cannot settle for less than 3 points from the smoggies in what they see as a local derby, but which isn't really. We know that they will try and kill the game from the off but we need to play and play well. Goals and points are needed and this is the opportunity to kick-start the season again.

Diane Pringle


Arsenal Away (AGAIN)

Outclassed again by a far superior side However we do seem to like to make things as hard as humanly possible for ourselves by playing ourselves into as much unnecessary trouble as possible.

With our goalkeeper now our playmaker and seeing far more of the ball (at his feet) than our captain did all night it’s not hard to see why this particular Geordie (With far too high expectations) now stops out all night to celebrate us having a shot on target.

Emmanuel Adebayor is obviously a player with HUGE B.O. problems, thus explaining any of our defenders’ refusal to stand anywhere near him and standing nowhere near the current most deadliest striker in the Premier League may well result in a net bulging experience which makes the scoreboard change!!!!!!!!!

I would like to say on record my thanks to the people who performed CPR to revive me after Shay Given back heeled the ball an inch and a half past his own post.

My close sources inside SJP have reliably informed me that Kevin Keegan will splash the cash late on Thursday night to bring in 47 balloons which will allow us to create chances in the other teams box.

With the League(ha), FA cup (ha) and the League cup (HUMPH!!) now out of reach for this season, we can now concentrate on our Northumberland Senior Cup campaign tonight at North Shields!!!!!

Seriously we have got to beat the Chemical heads on Sunday!!!

Keep On, Keepin’ On …

Chris Betts