The figures for TV money received by each club have been revealed, and Newcastle raked in a cool £54.2m from their share of TV rights and prize money from the season. That figure is a jump of £8m from last season where we brought in just over £46m although most [...]
Newcastle United have today made available the latest set of accounts for the year ending 30th June 2011. The headline figure is that is a small loss of £3.9m was recorded during this period – our lowest loss since the days of Champions League football! Turnover increased from £52.4m to [...]
I was looking through my email today and came across a link about a new movie called Salmon Fishing In The Yemen. It’s about a Yemeni Sheikh who wants to introduce fly fishing to his home country, a country where drinking from a river usually involves ingesting sand. Not really [...]
Okay, so lets get all theoretical and a dreamy and imagine that come the end of the season we qualify for the Europa League somehow. What would it actually mean for the club? Is it worth the extra games given the well documented detrimental effect it can have on a [...]
It’s the time of year that I love more than anything else. We start to get facts and figures trickling through, which suits my analytical and accounting penchant no end! Geeky? Probably, but it’s something I enjoy doing so there. Suck on that! Anyway, the latest Deloitte Football Richlist has [...]
It is now becoming very apparent to me that a section of our fans do not actually care who we sign, but more so how much is spent in the process. Like myself, most NUFC supporters will never forgive the ‘Fat Controller’ and his sidekick Derek Llambias for the mass [...]
As the end of January draws closer, football fans across the nation are gearing themselves for what is certain to be yet another action-packed end to the transfer window. However, in this ‘blog I would like to give my views on why us Toon fans must remain patient in our search for the right players [...]
Some time ago I was asked by one of our readers to take a look into the new Financial Fair Play (FFP) regulations and just how Newcastle United fit into them. Most people are now familiar with what the aim of FFP is, but just in case you aren’t the [...]
News broke late on Wednesday afternoon that Virgin Money, the banking branch of Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Group empire, was set to become Newcastle United’s next shirt sponsor. Virgin Money chief executive Jayne-Anne Gadhia – a Manchester United fan, as it happens – had this to say before she watched [...]
Virgin Money confirmed on Wednesday that they had signed a two year sponsorship deal with the club. This may be a surprise to many as Virgin Money had previously stated that they were not going to look into sponsoring the club immediately although they did insist that it was something [...]
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