Newcastle v Manchester United – Premier League match preview

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Magpies v Red Devils
Magpies v Red Devils
I’ve been remarkably quiet following the horror show at Southampton last weekend.

That’s probably because what I’d have said about it would have cause great offence, especially if you dislike reading swear words!

It was horrible, toothless and we were played of the park by a Southampton side who took advantage of the fact that we just didn’t turn up. I’m struggling to motivate myself with us having nothing on the line but I don’t expect the same from the players who are paid a lot of money to remain professional and give their all. They failed in that regard last weekend. They failed miserably.

To set the record straight they are going to need to pull something special out of the bag against a Manchester United side who have attracted their own critics this season. That Manchester United side drew with the European Champions in midweek shortly after seeing off Aston Villa 4-1 last weekend. They seem to be gathering momentum and whilst it might be too late for them to rescue their own season it’s still not a good sign for Newcastle.

Newcastle:

Five of the players who played in the 1-0 victory at Old Trafford earlier on in the season will not feature for the return fixture. Yohan Cabaye is now no longer with us after his January move to PSG, Mathieu Debuchy, Loic Remy and Moussa Sissoko are all out while Tim Krul remains sidelined. The whereabouts of Gabriel Obertan are unknown and Sammy Ameobi is also unavailable although Davide Santon could start after completing 45 minutes at St Mary’s last weekend.

Manchester United:

Robin van Persie misses out due to a sprained knee while Rafael and Alexander Buttner are both unlikely to feature due to hamstring complaints.

Previously…

The result earlier in the season means that Newcastle have a chance to do a league double over Manchester United for the first time since 1931. However it is worth pointing out that we’ve won just five games (out of 40) against the Red Devils since the inception of the Premier League.

At St James’ Park we do hold a slight historical advantage in terms of results. The 76 matches played have seen Newcastle win on 31 occasions compared to 28 wins for Manchester United.

However a formidable record at Old Trafford gives Manchester United the upper hand overall. Including the Charity Shield in 1996, FA Cup final in 1999 and FA Cup semi-final in 2005, a total of 156 games have been played between the two clubs. Manchester United have won 71 of those, Newcastle just 41 with 37 draws making up the numbers.

Stats and facts…

Loic Remy has missed the last five games. In that sequence we’ve scored one goal and picked up one win, both if which happened against Crystal Palace.

Wayne Rooney has scored ten goals against Newcastle. Only against Aston Villa has Rooney scored more.

Manchester United have the best away record in the Premier League having picked up 30 points from 48 on offer.

Newcastle have won only four of their last 14 Premier League matches.

Final thought…

As much as I’ve been critical of our levels of motivation recently, I’m not too bothered about that for games like this. For whatever reason we always tend to be able to get ourselves ‘up’ for games like these and if we haven’t got a point to prove after last weekend then we may aswell all get our buckets and spades out now.

However I think the amount of players we have missing will cause us a problem, particularly in attack where we’ve looked impotent without Loic Remy. Sometimes stats lie but our record without him has been poor and that can’t be ignored. Unfortunately I think it will once again cost us in this one.

Howay the lads!

Date: Saturday, 5th April, 2014

Time: 3pm

Venue: St James’ Park

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  4. Shepherds got a nerve piping up everytime things start to go wrong, We are on for a higher finish with Ashleys stingy NUFC than shepherds stardust sprinkled shambles managed 7 out of 11 seasons when we had ambition.

    We all want that but NUFC to show more ambition but fat fred is in no position to criticise others after the mess he left behind…

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  5. CC – The media have timed this Shepherd bollocks perfectly. When supporters are all against the current regime (who just happened to have banned the said paper) they have given the supporters a taste of ‘what could have been’ and this will just whip up the hysteria further.

    I think there is a campaign against the club from the NJC Media and to be honest I hope it continues as banning the papers from going to the club is a childish game and it goes to show ho much the club are worried about the papers influence on the supporters.

    keep it going lads! 🙂

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  6. £4m for Richards? Can’t see that and if he has the choice between us and Anfield. Well, obviously he’ll come here. 😆

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  7. WONGA

    in the advert, the puppets said: “Right, we’re going to explain the costs of a Wonga short-term loan.

    “Some people think they will pay thousands of per cent of interest. They won’t of course – that’s just the way annual rates are calculated. Say you borrowed £150 for 18 days, it would cost you £33.49.”….

    what the puppets should have added is….

    it’s a good job the majority don’t/can’t pay back on time otherwise we wouldn’t be in a position to pay – stromboli – £24 million over the next 4 years.

    scum.

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  8. CC – totally agree with what you say regarding shepherd, and how he left the club. But his turning up in the news lately is all media driven.
    Ramping up the pressure on fatty.
    Not a bad thing, but nothing will come of it.

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  9. Just like they don’t feel the cold, Fatty’s don’t feel pressure.

    Ashley’s doing some strange things at the minute. Not just here but at SD too. Very odd. Why does he suddenly want to be on the board? It’s not really a board anyway just yes men. Has anything changed for us? Doubt it. I’m actually hoping for 5 more stuffings then the whole of football will want the fool sacked. How there hasn’t been anti Pardew chants at SJP escapes me. Allardyce was doing better 😥

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  10. “But most importantly, we have to work between now and Stoke and get a formula to get us a result. That’s really what we need – a result and a goal or more.”
    http://www.fourfourtwo.com/news/remy-contention-newcastle-return

    Pardew putting out the word that Remy COULD be back against the potters.
    I guarantee he wont play. No way he will jeopardise his WC place for pardum, until he is 100% fit.
    Also, it’s a bit late to be looking for a formula to win a match.
    seriously pardum wtf ❓ ❓ ❓
    CLOWN

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  11. Exactly Georgio
    Cant believe I haven’t heard any “you don’t know what you’re doing” chants yet either.
    Fans have either become complacent and accepting of the way it is, or like the players, and have just given up.
    Still 52k in the ground tho beggars belief.
    Must be happy to just not be in a relegation scrap or something.
    We’ll have fatty sitting in the crowd again soon 😯
    nee worries
    we luv you mike

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  12. GEORGIO on Richards would we really want him,he is very much like Taylor he is very injury prone hence he has only played a handful of games in two years do we need that??

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  13. When it comes to money, Ashley is very very careful and shrewd.
    Regarding the SD shares he sold, I’m sure he knew exactly what he was doing. He has given the other share holders a bloody nose.
    But I have no doubt the SD share price will rise again over the next 150 days. And when they do, he may well cash in some more.
    What’s the point of being worth £3.3Bn if you cant spend it anyways ❓

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  14. Injuries aside he’s a good player Ice. Leagues ahead of Saylor. He’s turning down a new contract at City and a wage rise but no way will he come here. Can’t think of who will!

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  15. you miss the point Icedog –
    He could be cheap enough for Pardum to persuade fatty to buy him.

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  16. oh right, well if he’s looking to be more ambitious, then we have nee chance.
    phew ❗

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  17. GEORGIO,IMO no decent player would want to come into this set up,I know I would not,its no good having a good player at the club if he is the treatment room for three parts of the season as Richards seems to be mate

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  18. BB reading between the lines pac-man is going to have no say on players coming in or out (thank god) he is going to be just a coach nowt else,god help us as he cannot do that in this modern era

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  19. Classic Pardew “We want a goal for the fans” Dear God! Is that it for us, are our ambitions just to score a goal now?

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  20. Stuart – be fair now. He has dreamed up a new magic formula.
    The goal is for US and not for Mike.
    What more do you want.
    LMFAO 👿

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  22. I would have Fat Freddie back tomorrow, at least he had ambition for the club. To be fair to FF he has praised Jabbas business acumen with regard to the clubs finances but points out sometimes you HAVE to speculate to accumulate in order to finish higher or win a cup . Trouble is neither of those things are on his or the boards agenda . 🙁

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  23. A good piece here from the dougal
    http://www.thejournal.co.uk/sport/sport-opinion/agenda-newcastle-united-stopped-talking-6940110
    He’s right, but I don’t think much will actually change.
    I think chumley has just been given a new title that should make it easier for him with transfer negotiations.
    I fully expect Pardoom will still be the public mouthpiece of the club.
    We wont hear much from chumley, other than written press releases.

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  24. Pac-man has been busy in training all week in order to get that elusive win ,he has a brand new philosophy which he thinks will work this time. He has set up a shrine to the injury gods in his office. Later on this week Benny and Marv will be dragged into his office by the coaching staff and in front of the squad their throats will be cut in an act of sacrifice to the injury gods in order for us to have a fit Remy and Debbie, Pac-man feels sure this is a sacrifice worth paying and who’s gonna notice them missing anyway 😉

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  26. KIM@697 I would go for that mate,I know a lot would say he would bust the club I don’t think he would most fans don’t know how money on that scale works I know I don’t,and this lot have fed us so much **** about what went on before jabba came along,at least IMO FF did try and give fans a good team to enjoy most fans don’t care about the money side of this footy game

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  27. Kim – Shepherd was a fat greedy pig.
    make no bones, he lined his pockets with all kinds of dodgy deals.
    Yes he wanted success for NUFC, but only so he could line his own trousers even more.
    He would probably have bankrupted the club, yet walked away with many millions himself.
    Don’t be fooled by him. He still walked away with nearly £50M when Ashley bought him out.

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  28. Well said Kim for all freddie’s faults he did have more ambition than Jabba. Pardews lucky he isn’t here. He wouldn’t get away with these **** performance’s.

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  30. Totally agree with what you say Icedog.
    He wouldn’t get away with his shady deals these days, as we are all a lot more informed, when it comes to club finances.
    We’ll never know the truth either way, but I’m a big believer in never going back.

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  31. BB, Yeah he was a ****, but a **** with ambition. If you look at Abramovich ,he’s no angel ,been implicated in all manner of dodgy goings on some of it a lot more serious than lining your pocket too ,but I don’t see Chelsea fans wanting shot of him like. I’m at the stage now I don’t care who runs us ,ANYONE is better than that fat **** and his ego . 👿

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  32. True Kim, True

    pardoom was overheard to say “whats a cruyff turn and cross into the box” 😯
    nope no idea.
    🙁

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  33. Ice , I didn’t realise he tried to buy us back when we got relegated 😯 Don’t know how I missed that little titbit, must of still been in shock and depression over going down like. 🙄

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  37. Ice , yeah,strange goings on I reckon. Jabba taking up a seat on the board all of a sudden is interesting, why now ❓ I think he’ll buy Rangers end of next season tbh , they’ll be promoted again by then .

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  40. I agree that something is afoot behind the scenes.
    But I think we may have one more season before we find out.
    Fatty will want to be certain on Rangers getting into SPL before showing his full hand. But I do think the two clubs are interlinked.
    It could be wishful thinking, but I think he will look to cut his losses with us and go balls out for Rangers.
    They’re welcome to him, so long as he disposes of us one way or another

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  42. Exactly Georgio – he fails to understand that the strikers cant score when the rest of the team are so concerned with defending, that they aren’t creating anything of note for the strikers to do anything with.
    Complete and utter clueless fool.

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  43. so Hull City lost their application to change their name to Hull Tigers.
    Anyone got an opinion on this ❓

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  44. Agreed BB! One thing I just don’t understand. Cisse has very clearly decided the only way to score is hit it as hard as you can. How many times this season has he hit a clear chance straight at the goalkeeper. Lost count. A little sidefoot into the corner and he’d have a dozen goals now. No brain and little skill and he’s the one we’re likely to keep. Pardew likes him.

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  45. BB

    Yes the FAs spot on for a change, Im not a fan of changing stadium names but i understand most clubs (with an obvious exception) need to do this for financial reasons, But changing the home colours or club name should be completely off limits.

    Cardiff should never have got away with it and at last someones finally showing some sense, By stopping this clown messing with hulls 100 odd year history to sell some **** merchandise in the far east.

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  47. Cheik Tiote is one booking away from a two match ban.
    If he can get through the stoke match clean (very doubtful) he will be ok to the end of the season.
    I would be looking to make him captain for the remainder of the season anyway, as he played so much better with that added responsibility.
    Of course Pardoom doesn’t have the balls to strip his *** boy collo or even just to drop him for being utterly gash lately.

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  48. Bang on CC.
    That’s how I feel too.
    Imagine if Ashley tried to change our shirts to red white and blue 😯
    👿
    Changing hulls name would just be the thin end of the wedge.
    what next Newcastle Magpies, sunderland chimps :mrgreen: 😆
    then eventually the boundries will be pushed to evermore extreme names.
    With subsequent court cases over appeals etc etc.
    Nah bollix to Hull City. The names should remain the same.
    I guess the only exception would be a new team.

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  49. BB

    He wouldnt because his main priority is selling sportswear, He knows he would never sell any newcastle merchandise if he changed the colours. Wonga put some people off but changing the colours would kill of that revenue stream completely for the club and sports direct

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  53. Pardoom (the unsackable) “hatam can get out now”
    So i say…. get ur dirty face in ur ****** dirty *** now !!!!halan !!! 😆

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  58. I cant believe the club has too pay money back to Southampton fans because the FA say the club charged them too much for their tickets . Yet our fans payed exactly the same too watch the game at their place , How the **** have NUFC over charged them then ?????? talk about the FA having it in for us ,its a fucking **** take that one .

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  59. KIMTOON@726 thats not on , shooting him would be inflicting pain far too quickly . He would need too suffer long and hard for something like that . 😉

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  60. Pardew carver and ben arfa have for rent of insult in the locker room … hatem criticizes the tactics and poor practice game . 💡 💡 😀 .. while both coaches criticized him for not defending .. 🙁 .. dialogue of the deaf! 😆 😆 ben arfa is pray to leave the club this summer and is no longer left to the team of new castle united! ❗ ❗ ❗ 👿 👿 👿 👿

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  61. So essentially with the Charnley promotion we are being asked to be patient while the club does……. nothing! Yes that’s right they will make no attempt to win anything at all. They will not attempt to rise in the league. Their only stated goal is to sit mid table in security and collect more money. I think they’re going to find out that even that pathetic lack of ambition is difficult to do with the people that own and run the club. 👿

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  62. How do you hang a man up by his plums if he has none? This is our dilemma with Mike NoNuts.

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  63. Djebs@735 , We know words were exchanged but that quote you posted earlier ” Hatem can get out now”@728 Where did you read/get that ? I can’t find it anywhere. 😕

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  64. Axel, G2 is on the right track ,better to hang him by his nuts, presuming we can find them like 😉

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  67. It s shame on pards …recogniz hatem is not easy caractere but he s a biautiful offensiv player realy !!
    If he ply with a good football and strong team …he can make champagne moment !!!!!
    …… 😐

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  69. Djeb, If that was his actual words then the guys a ***** and not the man manager he seems to think he is.

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  70. DJEBS9 – you are absolutely right my friend.
    Pardoom is the *** of a donkey
    HBA can bring the champagne football to Newcastle, but NOT under the tiny brain of donkey’s ***.
    He will make champagne football again at a better club than ours unfortunately.
    There will be no champagne football at NUFC with Pardew running the show.
    Sorry my good friend.
    I am embarrassed with my football club.
    😳 😳 😳

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  71. Kim – do some research lass and find us a link to the article.
    Seems very interesting

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  72. got it
    Often praised by Alan Pardew, Hatem Ben Arfa has now over the same status at Newcastle. Confirmed only 13 times this season in first League, french midfielder has lost his place in the starting lineup and shows hardly convincing when its inputs at stake. Evidenced that during the defeat to Manchester United (0-4). Involved in the third goal for the Red Devils, the former Marseille player suffered the ire of Pardew at the end of the meeting, according to the Chronicle Live. Insults have even exchanged between the two men in the locker room. Wearied by the irregularity of his player (under contract until 2015), the manager of Magpies would consider to put on the transfer list this summer.

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  74. bb, I just got l equipe up with Cavani on front , but when I searched for Ben Arfa ,the newest article seemed to be in jan this year . My French is really poor mate so couldn’t find what Djebs is referring to like . I’m still wondering if Pards quote was lost in translation tbh, as if it’s not it’s pretty poor to say that publicly like, and all cause Benny apparently had the temerity to question his tactics. 🙄 ..

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  75. BB, FFS, should of scrolled down more before typing that like 🙄 Your French obviously better than mine 😆 thanks for the link anyway.

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