Guilty: The Decade of Deceit Behind Manchester City’s Empire
Read more: Guilty: The Decade of Deceit Behind Manchester City’s EmpireOn Thursday, in a Premier League shareholders’ meeting, the division’s clubs were told the outcome of the biggest disciplinary case English football has ever heard — and then made to sign non-disclosure agreements. The silence held for barely a day. On Friday, David Ornstein of The Athletic reported what those executives had been told: an…
Manchester United’s record year lost £43m. Newcastle should read the small print
Read more: Manchester United’s record year lost £43m. Newcastle should read the small printUnited’s books for 2025/26 look like a triumph until you break them down. What can Newcastle learn from it. Manchester United finished third, earned a record £677.6 million and lost £43 million doing it. The loss came out on Wednesday, inside a results release that led with the record. Chief executive Omar Berrada said the…
Borrowed Time: What Newcastle’s Numbers Are Actually Buying Jaissle
Read more: Borrowed Time: What Newcastle’s Numbers Are Actually Buying JaissleA tweet on X, a five-game sample, and the maths behind a start that’s running well ahead of the performances underneath it — time the rebuild shouldn’t waste. Twelve of sixteen. That’s how many “big chances” Manchester City’s opponents have missed against them this season — the club sitting top of the Premier League, conceding…
Perfect City, brittle Forest: scoring the Premier League’s nine new managers against last year’s
Read more: Perfect City, brittle Forest: scoring the Premier League’s nine new managers against last year’sAndoni Iraola spent three seasons building the side he faced at the Vitality Stadium on Sunday, and in the 57th minute Alexander Isak turned in Cody Gakpo’s cross, which had clipped Florian Wirtz on its way through. Liverpool won 1-0. Iraola was Bournemouth’s manager until this summer, and on Sunday he beat them as Liverpool’s.…
Couldn’t See Half of It, Loved All of It
Read more: Couldn’t See Half of It, Loved All of ItI’ve lost me voice again, and it’s only September. Here’s what nobody tells you about the seats: you see about half of it. The other half you hear, or you find out on your phone at half-time. So don’t ask me for a match report. The lads with the replays can do that. I’ll tell…
Everything They Had
Read more: Everything They HadFour days after Elland Road, a Newcastle side missing nine players ran until their legs gave way. They beat Hull 2-1, and they only just held on to do it. Sean Steur’s legs went in the 66th minute, and Matias Fernandez-Pardo’s followed eight minutes later. Neither had been fouled or visibly hurt, and both appeared…
The Weight of One Deflection
Read more: The Weight of One DeflectionFour days after Elland Road, a patched and youthful Newcastle side look for redemption against a Hull team playing with nothing to fear The touch that put Newcastle behind on Monday night wasn’t even Lewis Miley’s shot. It came off Ao Tanaka’s boot, deflected twice — off Sean Steur, then off Miley — and spun…
Blood Before Badge: The Case for Jacob Murphy
Read more: Blood Before Badge: The Case for Jacob MurphyNine years old, wedged between his father and his twin brother under the St James’ Park floodlights, Jacob Murphy watched Alan Shearer and Gary Speed put Newcastle two goals up on PSV Eindhoven in a UEFA Cup night in April 2004. He didn’t grow up round the corner. He was born in Wembley, in the…
Marching Over Us
Read more: Marching Over UsI need a pint. Several pints. Give us a minute before I even start this. Elland Road’s a proper ground, I’ll give them that much and not a word more. Old brick, tight corners, none of your soulless new-build nonsense — the kind of place that’s been putting the fear into away fans since before…
The Numbers Catch Up
Read more: The Numbers Catch UpOn Friday, I warned that Newcastle were surviving on moments they hadn’t earned. On Monday night, Elland Road presented the invoice. Two minutes and forty-two seconds. That’s all the time that passed between Lewis Miley turning Ao Tanaka’s speculative strike into an own goal and Jayden Bogle wheeling away to celebrate a second, and by…
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