Marked for Adam Harrison
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad8 Mar 2027
2 kept out from twelve yards, and a stadium that will describe each of them for twenty years. A goalkeeper needs one night like this in a career, and this was it.
Match3 Mar 2027
A 0‑0 win over Aston Villa, and the draw for the next round can be watched with some interest for once.
Player ratings8 Mar 2027
Successful dribbles: 33. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Squad8 Mar 2027
A fracture rules Adam Harrison out for 16 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Newcastle United will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Match6 Mar 2027
12 matches without defeat, and then Chelsea. Nobody at the ground pretended it would go on forever; nobody expected it to stop here either.
The dugout8 Mar 2027
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Newcastle United have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad8 Mar 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Nick Pope commits to Newcastle United for another 2 years.
Squad8 Mar 2027
Joelinton and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Match6 Mar 2027
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Back issues
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Triumph
Match27 Feb 2027
4‑0 against Basel, on a night that will be replayed at this club for a generation. Continental reputations are made in single evenings and this was the evening.
Squad1 Mar 2027
27 days out for Adam Harrison after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Newcastle United will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Player ratings1 Mar 2027
Two goals and a mark of 8.14 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Match27 Feb 2027
11 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.
Squad1 Mar 2027
Joelinton and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad1 Mar 2027
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Nico González was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The terraces1 Mar 2027
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Matías Fernández-Pardo has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Player ratings1 Mar 2027
Successful dribbles: 19. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
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Uneasy
Squad22 Feb 2027
35 days out for Adam Harrison after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Newcastle United will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Match20 Feb 2027
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 9 matches without defeat is a foundation Newcastle United did not have in the autumn.
Squad22 Feb 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Newcastle United this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad22 Feb 2027
Words at Newcastle United training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Joelinton is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
The dugout22 Feb 2027
The manager makes an example of Yoane Wissa
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Player ratings22 Feb 2027
Successful dribbles: 17. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
The dugout22 Feb 2027
Nick Pope dropped after a run of poor form
The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.
The dugout22 Feb 2027
A promise honoured for Lewis Hall
It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Newcastle United told Lewis Hall something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.
The dugout22 Feb 2027
Sven Botman gets picked when it counts
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Sven Botman is on it.
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Uneasy
Squad15 Feb 2027
A fracture rules Adam Harrison out for 44 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Newcastle United will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market15 Feb 2027
Joelinton wants to know where this is going
“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at Newcastle United hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.
Match13 Feb 2027
The unbeaten run reaches 8. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Market15 Feb 2027
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Newcastle United they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad15 Feb 2027
Joelinton was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad15 Feb 2027
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Nico González was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout15 Feb 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Isaac Moran, and the manager let it.
Player ratings15 Feb 2027
Successful dribbles: 18. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
The dugout15 Feb 2027
Clubs make promises constantly and the page usually only hears about them when they are broken. This one was honoured, and the dressing room noticed that faster than any supporter did.
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Upbeat
Squad8 Feb 2027
A fracture rules Adam Harrison out for 54 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Newcastle United will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Player ratings8 Feb 2027
A brace, and Gabriel Martinelli takes the afternoon — 8.50
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Gabriel Martinelli provided it, and the 8.50 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Market8 Feb 2027
“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at Newcastle United hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.
Market8 Feb 2027
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Market8 Feb 2027
The deal that would have taken Matías Fernández-Pardo to Liverpool has collapsed at the last stage, and he reports back to Newcastle United with a summer to forget and a season still to play. Nobody is saying which side walked away.
Squad8 Feb 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Harvey Barnes commits to Newcastle United for another 4 years.
Squad8 Feb 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Newcastle United this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match6 Feb 2027
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 7 matches without defeat is a foundation Newcastle United did not have in the autumn.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Words at Newcastle United training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Nico González is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.