NEWCASTLE UNITED new boy Cheik Tiote will wear squad number 24 this season. The Ivory Coast international trained with his team-mates for the first time today since international duty for the Elephants and is poised to be handed his first slice of action in the weekend game with Blackpool.
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CHRIS HUGHTON is facing a selection dilemma ahead of the weekend visit of Blackpool with Hatem Ben Arfa and Cheik Tiote keen to fight their way into his starting XI.
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CHRIS HUGHTON has warned that Ian Holloway will be trying to send the Toon Army from “heaven to hell” as Blackpool rock into Tyneside scenting a Premier League scalp.
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SOL Campbell has done everything needed to make his Newcastle United debut against Blackpool this weekend, but Chris Hughton’s high-profile summer signing will not walk straight into the starting line-up.
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A BOOK has prompted a war of words between two former Toon directors. Denis Cassidy, a former Magpies chairman in the late 1990s, has released a new book, in which he heavily criticises Freddy Shepherd’s period at the club’s helm.
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SIR BOBBY ROBSON was so perturbed about a plot he perceived to get him out of Newcastle United that in despair he turned to one-time plc chairman Denis Cassidy.
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