Game On! Newcastle United v Manchester United

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Game On at St James’ Park!
Amidst all of the rumours about stadium renaming, there is the small matter of a football match to consider this afternoon.

St James’ Park will be rocking once again this afternoon as Manchester United come to town, and with an international break coming up after this game it’s a match that both sides will be wanting to win.

Really it’s a match that needs no build up. It’s one of the bigger games on Tyneside owing to our previous tussles with Manchester United in the mid-nineties, plus there is the fact that over the years they have been the team to beat in the Premier League which makes them a scalp in the eyes of most teams. Call it a symbol of their success.

Anyway, whilst I do respect Manchester United and all they have achieved over the years, it’s Newcastle United first and foremost that is the priority of all of us this afternoon as Alan Pardew and his own (proper) United side look to build on the promising display against Bordeaux in midweek.

The match preview for this game is located here so you’re just one click away from everything you need to know about the fixture including injury news for both sides, stats, facts and random thoughts about the game itself.

We are live on Sky Sports this afternoon which is great if you aren’t able to get to the match to watch the game. If you have Sky Sports then obviously you’ll be laughing but if you don’t then there are dozens of overseas channels showing the match so I anticipate no issues regarding availability of streams. As is always the case though, if you find a particularly good one then please feel free to share it with your fellow NUFC fans and post a link to it in the ‘comments’ section below.

Which neatly wraps this up. Team news, as ever, will be posted below as and when it becomes available.

Howay the lads!

Newcastle United: Steve Harper, Davide Santon, Mike Williamson, James Perch, Shane Ferguson, Hatem Ben Arfa, Yohan Cabaye, Cheik Tiote, Jonas Gutierrez, Papiss Cisse, Demba Ba

Subs: Jak Alnwick, Danny Simpson, Gael Bigirimana, Vurnon Anita, Gabriel Obrtan, Sammy Ameobi, Shola Ameobi

Manchester United: David De Gea, Rafael, Rio Ferdinand, Johnny Evans, Patrice Evra, Michael Carrick, Tom Cleverley, Shinji Kagawa, Danny Welbeck, Robin van Persie, Wayne Rooney

Subs: Anders Lindegaard, Scott Wooton, Antonio Valencia, Paul Scholes, Anderson, Ryan Giggs, Javier Hernandez

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226 thoughts on “Game On! Newcastle United v Manchester United”

  2. 2 Santons? howay man toonsy – who’s playing CB with Willo?

    if Pardew really has gone for Fergie LB and Santon RB… then I’m impressed

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  3. KK yeah looks like a busy day for him
    #NUFC (4-4-2) v #MUFC: Harper; Santon, Williamson, Perch, Ferguson; Ben Arfa, Cabaye, Tiote, Gutierrez (c); Ba, Cisse

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  11. Really glad to see Fergie in the team and Santon on his more natural side. However I still think Fergie is stronger as a midfielder than a defender.

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  12. Anyone thinks that,our corner kick should be always a short one,and pass it to shane fergie to cross it. 😆 😆

    Or shane himself can take the corner kick and cross directly. 😉

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  13. Why is it that when a keeper makes a cracking save, he then has to hop up and yell like a **** at the defenders?.. you don’t see defenders yelling at keepers when they make a gaff.. wankers 🙂 🙂

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  15. Jesus thats a very attacking lineup they are playing , its going to be a goal feast today 4-3 the Toon . This ones going to be a classic .

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  20. Well time too break open one of the non alcoholic beers that i bought for the game , 😯 anyone ever tried one before ❓ i think a whole new world is about to open for me .

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  21. Worst case scenario for our fecked defence!

    Where is Simpson? Why play semi fit players in the Europa games?!
    Yes we all wanted to see Santon at RB but didn’t really want to experiment against Man U like. I’m keeping an open mind, but the defence worries me.

    HWTL!!!!!!!!!!!

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  22. RVP ,Rooney and Welbeck 🙄 Good forward line that mind ,we’ll need to concentrate to the max at the back today.

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  25. There will be goals, ohhhh yes there will be goals 🙂

    Axel, alcoholic beer, I don’t know what they are about but they should be banned 🙂 🙂

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  28. If we put 6 unanswered goals against man u, we will move above them on the table 🙂 🙂

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  32. Whoa, Fergie starting at left back?! Looks like we’ll see how Santon is on the right today!

    Howay the lads!!

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  35. 6 sounds better Toonsy. Kim, just a few beers and a couple of ports 🙂 🙂

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  39. Man u’s defence isn’t as weak as it has been made out.. this will be tough..

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  60. Dave dont tell me you have joined the dreamers club and expect any thing but a hammering 😕

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  61. Watching Benny then shows why he should be behind the front two ,too many to beat when he has to cut in from the wing.

    Fecking hell Harps 😳

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  66. Don’t get me wrong, we deserve to be behind, but Webb is blowing up for every little thing we do 🙄

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