It's been another busy week at Premier League Towers and especially for that Titan of football administration, Richard Masters. As news of Everton's points deduction broke, TF had exclusive behind the scenes access to the great man's office. *** Dodgy Dickie Masters...

With the international break comes a time to reassess the first Champions League campaign for twenty years, and with it STEPHEN ORD has a strange sense of deja vu? Trivia question: In 1997/98 Newcastle United played six Champions League games proper and scored seven...

9 October 1988. A day when the Geordie nation stopped. Its greatest hero had gone. Scott Robson remembers. *** Statues and monuments are both evocative and provocative. One stands in my home town, beside a very smart sports centre looking up a road which eventually...

Admit it. You're still watching highlights from the PSG match, aren't you? Bloody hell - it's hard not to! Better than Barça? More magnificent than Man Utd? Where does it rank in our recent history? Matthew Philpotts surveys his personal memory bank. *** The sliding...

In addition to our regular match previews on the eve of our CL fixtures, we're publishing a series of articles looking at each of our host clubs and their cities in a little more depth. Today, Matthew Philpotts guides us through Milan. *** Rijkard, Gullit, van Basten....

And so, we have come to the end of Amazon Prime’s ‘We are Newcastle United’ series. There’s been highs... there’s been lows... so let’s not waste any more time and take a look at the series’ finale! *** The Home Stretch This episode focusses on Newcastle United’s...

And we're back!  GRACE LAIDLER (@gracewillhuntin) with the weekly recap... Intro Half an hour after I finished last week's recap, the news broke that Prime Video had accidentally released the third and fourth episodes. Plenty of fans watched the two episodes before...

And we’re back for the second instalment of Amazon Prime’s ‘We are Newcastle United’. This episode centred around the most important game of last season: the Carabao Cup Final. It was a highly emotional affair for everyone involved. Let’s take a look at how the...

What does every high-stakes, must-watch drama series need? Why, a week-by-week episode recap, of course! Essential to feed our hunger before the next instalment. Fortunately, TF’s resident media critic, Grace Laidler, is on hand to digest the week’s events in Amazon’s...

Scott Robson continues his epic Champions League qualifying saga. Whatever will become of our brave Icelandic heroes? Only one way to find out! *** The Champions League is off and running. You know that, don’t you? So I decided, in a typically leftfield move, to...

As Sandro To(o)nali starts to make his mark on Tyneside, Adam Morrison delves into recent history to consider the other four Italians who've donned black and white on Tyneside. I'll be honest, he hasn't got much to live up to... *** Now, when you read the title of...

Yes, there really is a pub team called Bruno's Magpies who have qualified for Europe this season. Scott Robson has the remarkable story of another team of black and whites! *** Nothing against Dundalk. The Irish side once signed a player who announced he had signed...

Saturday 1 June 2024 at Wembley. That's the end of the road. The Champions League final. But the journey is already long underway in the distant outposts of Europe. Never one to ignore the more obscure corners of the football universe, Scott Robson will chart the path...