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Newcastle United

Posted on January 13, 2008
Filed Under English Premier League, Newcastle

Newcastle United Football Club
Nicknames: The Magpies, The Toon, Geordies
Founded: 1892
Stadium: St. James’ Park
Capacity: 52,387
Owner: Mike Ashley
Chairman: Chris Mort
Manager: Nigel Peason

Newcastle is a club based in Newcastle upon Tyne and was formed, in 1892, after the merge of two local clubs, Newcastle West End and Newcastle East End. Since then, they’re playing at St. James’ Park. Historically, they are the 8th most successful club from England, winning the first division championship four times and six times the FA cup. The Tyne-Wear derby that is played with their biggest rivals, Sunderland, has been played since 1898.

Newcastle supporters call themselves Toon Army or the Geordies. Having a large fanbase, Newcastle has 3rd average attendance from premiership. In a survey in 2007, Newcastle fans were found the most dedicated fans from England and even the former prime minister of England, Tony Blair, is known to be a fan of Newcastle. The toon comes from the Geordie pronunciation of the town. Alan Shearer was one of the best players that ever played at Newcastle, being the top goalscorer for the Toon. In 10 years, between 1996 and 2006 he scored 206 goals for Newcastle.

From june 7, 2007 the club was bought by Mike Ashley who will invest a lot of money to increase the stadium’s capacity to at least 60,000 and to buy new-talent for the team, He has already invested over 100million into the club and is well known for sitting with the fans & going out on “the toon” drinking with fans of Newcastle United.

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