As Newcastle United fans, can you remember a more enjoyable international break than this one? I certainly can’t. Maybe there were some back in the day but the Mike Ashley…

Two weeks with no football for Newcastle United. An international break meaning two weeks between the Watford home and Liverpool away games. It gets worse though because we then have…

Of 12 Newcastle signings made by Rafa, 10 of them have been on duty in the international breaks so far, though thankfully not this pair of players.

Jonjo Shelvey on Rafa Benitez and the international break “Having said that, the gaffer’s not really too keen on days off…

I don’t know about you, but for me this international break has in some ways felt even longer than a summer without football…

The headlines are being filled with reports of loans for Zaha from Man Utd. The transfer only makes sense for one team – Man Utd. We will become one of the clubs like West Brom (with Lukaku last season) and Bolton (with Wilshere a couple of years back) happy to be a nursery club for the big hitters. That is if we have not already assumed this mantle.

Whilst there is no doubt we all want England to do well, none of us fancied spending one of our much deserved Saturdays off traipsing round the Metro Centre with the Mrs.

Quite ironic looking at the list of players going off on international duty, arguably our three best outfield performers are missing from the list; Ben Arfa, Santon and Steven Taylor.