TRUE FAITH EVENT: TRANSFER WINDOW PRESS FORUM, TYNESIDE IRISH CENTRE, THURS 7/SEP/17, KO: 7:30PM
So, that’s your lot. Happy? Raging? Beyond caring? Another Mike Ashley transfer window closes. The twentieth of his ten years at the club.
This is a reminder that we will have a unique press forum next Thursday featuring the leading journalists covering Newcastle United and who will have a unique insight into what is going on at the club and will be able to offer informed opinions at what might or might not happen next.
The tickets are only ’10 with all proceeds to the Newcastle United Fans Foodbank. Enry is by ticket only.
The press-pack who have been good enough to give up their time have not requested a fee for this event and we thank them for coming to this event. They are not obliged to do so.
The event will be hosted by I, Daniel Blake Star, Sharon Percy.
It will be questions provided by supporters that will be put to our press forum.
To get tickets, please complete on the link as below:
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By way of reminder who is attending, roll of the drums, eyes down:
George Caulkin, The Times.
George is one of the most respected and long-standing journalists covering Newcastle United for more than twenty years. ‘George is a patron of the Sir Bobby Robson Foundation and helped our former manager write the excellent My Kind of Toon. George is respected for his subtle and well-crafted writing which chronicle the gut-wrenching ordeals following the North East’s football clubs.
Martin Hardy, The Independent.
Martin is another veteran of the Newcastle United reporting scene and in recent years has published the excellent Touching Distance, Tunnel of Love and Rafa’s Way covering the club over the last twenty years and up to the contemporary era. There are fewer journalists closer to Rafa Benitez and understand what makes the man tick.
Luke Edwards, The Telegraph
An outsider to the region who has cut his teeth with the local press and is now The Telegraph’s man in the North East. Luke’s spiky writing has incurred the wrath of the Ashley hierarchy on several occasions and has faced numerous bans from the SJP Press Box. So he’s been doing something right.
Craig Hope, The Mail
Craig is a local lad who has covered NE football and Newcastle United in particular for The Mail. Craig is known for his determined journalistic style as Steve McClaren discovered at the training ground after trying to be a bit snide.
Mark Douglas, The Journal / The Chronicle ‘
Mark is one of the rising stars of football journalism and also published the excellent Inside The Rafalution and is another on the panel with a very good relationship with the Newcastle United manager. Mark is respected for his well-written and nuanced pieces in the North East’s biggest newspaper.
Louise Taylor, The Guardian
Louise is a well established and respected journalist having covered North East football for many years. ‘Louise has written some fantastic pieces recently on Rafa Benitez and Newcastle United and we are delighted she’ll be along on the night.
Simon Bird,’The Mirror
Simon has covered Newcastle United for over ten years and broken some of the biggest stories going whilst covering the club. ‘ Covering all the major North East clubs (and sunderland) Simon has his figure on the pulse for what is going on in the North East.
Please follow the link below for tickets:
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