SKY Fixture Updates
Sky have announced their first set of live football league live fixtures:
AUGUST
- Fri 7 Middlesbrough v Sheff Utd (8.00pm) Championship
- Sat 8 Southampton v Millwall (12.45pm) League One
- Sun 9 Coventry City v Ipswich Town (TBC) Championship
- Sat 15 Newcastle United v Reading (5.20pm) Championship
- Sat 22 West Bromwich Albion v Ipswich Town (5.20pm) Championship
- Sat 29 Peterborough United v Crystal Palace (5.20pm) Championship
- Mon 31 Newcastle United v Leicester City (7.45pm) Championship
SEPTEMBER
- Sat 5 Charlton Athletic v Brentford (12.15pm) League One
- Sun 13 Cardiff City v Newcastle United (2.05pm) Championship
- Mon 14 MK Dons v Norwich City (7.45pm) League One
- Fri 18 Sheffield United v Sheffield Wednesday (7.45pm) Championship
Edgar Says Why He Left Toon
Edgar, who has signed a four-year deal with Burnley, told the Chronicle:
“It was a difficult decision to leave, but it seems for the best. Moving to Burnley for me was too good an opportunity to turn down. I was happy with the direction this club is taking. But it is down to playing time for me more than anything. I am 22 and I’ve got to be playing first-team football.
The situation at Newcastle probably made it easier for me to make the decision.But Newcastle is my second home and, having spent eight years there, it has been tough. I still feel for everybody up there and I am sorry to be leaving a lot of good people behind. Life goes on for me now. But I’d like to think when I played I gave 110% effort. Who knows what might have happened if I’d played a few more games – I might have established myself there. But it wasn’t to be and I have to move on now.”
NUSC Update
Unite behind Shearer: fans groups band together to call for Shearer Toon supporters today called for the ‘immediate appointment of Alan Shearer as club manager’ to send the right message to supporters and potential buyers of the club.
Newcastle United Supporters Club have been joined by the Mag, the biggest selling football fanzine in the region, NUFC.com, the ‘unofficial club website’ that attracts thousands of hits daily, contributors from True Faith fanzine and the official Newcastle United Supporters Panel in a bid to break the deadlock in appointing the geordie legend Shearer.
Colin Whittle from NUSC said: ‘The time has come to show the outside world that the supporters of Newcastle United are ready to move on and get behind the club. We believe that the appointment of Alan Shearer would send out a massive signal to potential buyers and most importantly, the fans who have so far been ignored’.
Mark Jensen from the Mag said: ‘Its a ‘no-brainer’, the fans want Shearer and any future owners would be mad not to see Alan’s potential. By coming together, as representatives of various sections of the fan base we believe that it will send a powerful message of unity that will be picked up by potential owners’.
Steve Hastie who contributes to True Faith and is also on the Supporters Panel said: ‘The fans need to get resolution to this long running saga. It was particularly encouraging to hear potential owners talk about official fans involvement in the club, not as a token but a true partner’.
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