Christopher Jackson

Attacking Midfielder (L) - Newcastle United U18
21 Nov 2027
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Process

Marked for Christopher Jackson

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The Newcastle United Post

23 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Emil Riis puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Newcastle United, and it is not being withdrawn.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Harvey Barnes

Successful dribbles: 32. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Lewis Miley is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 21 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.

Squad

Bruno Guimarães in a row with a teammate

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.

Squad

Words at Newcastle United training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Aaron Ramsdale 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.

Boardroom

5 academy players handed senior numbers at Newcastle United

The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.

Market

Newcastle United promote Timothy Parker from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Timothy Parker has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.

Market

One of our own: Christopher Jackson joins the Newcastle United first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Christopher Jackson is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Market

Simon Richardson steps up from the Newcastle United academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Simon Richardson has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.

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