Paolo Di Canio is not a happy man. The former AC Milan player (1994-1996) crying on because Newcastle United held firm and got a point at the San Siro. Paolo…

Paolo Di Canio has been discussing the move of Sandro Tonali to Newcastle United. Still waiting for final official confirmation but to all intents and purposes, it looks a done…

One of the excellent contributor Brian Standen’s favourite words recently on the comments sections of The Mag has been the wonderful ‘Whataboutery’. It is used in reference to the seven…

Sunderland have appointed Dick Advocaat until the end of the season and he says he can’t wait for the Newcastle match in 19 days time.

Alan Pardew; “They have got good players, definitely got the standard to stay up but if we can win it will put them in difficult position and obviously that is what we want to do. A win for ourselves.”

I planned that over the first matches of the season I’d pay a lot of attention to teams I thought could be in trouble.

I was watching Sunderland a lot!”

Even back in those Newcastle days, we never quite saw as many as 14 new signings in a transfer window and to think of all the money tied up in those newly minted contracts…you have to laugh.

While we are used to a certain level of madness at St.James’ Park, our close neighbours are making a serious attempt at taking the north east top dogs (of madness) permanently to Wearside.

I was struggling until I came across this classic post match video of Paolo Di Canio after their defeat at West Brom left them rock bottom after only five matches.

Ironically, referee Atkinson will now officiate at Newcastle’s match against Hull on Saturday and a Newcastle win and the same treatment for Steve Bruce would do very nicely.