newcastle 4 - 2 rangers
it's the first match of the gateshead cup and newcastle put up a good-enough performance to welcome rangers who played a bit too aggressive for it to be jus a friendly. newcastle led 3-0 initially b4 rangers answered wif 2 goals. who else but alan shearer converted a penalty to raise the curtains for the gateshead cup, being closely man-marked by a defender for the whole match. shearer later got so irritated by the defender's 'body-sticking' marking tt he was booked in the 2nd half for instigating the opponents. well, i was hoping to see(but didn't get to) the all-new newcastle wif new purchases james milner, patrick kluivert and nicky butt. however, kluivert was nowhere to be seen(nt even on the bench) so i guess maybe he still lacks match-fitness. james milner was also nowhere to be seen but it's not really surprising as he wasnt issued a squad number so i assume old-man bobby deems him as a potential who'll feature heavily in newcastle later on(but not in the mean time...). nicky butt came into the match in the 2nd half and put up a up-to-standard performance aft being absent from 1st-team football for so long(pleased to see him playing his proper game...a clean one too...). as usual, newcastle's pre-season performance is always lidat. they always take a long time to warm up to the season and their performance at the start of the season is always so-so or really sub-standard. hopefully things will change and they can pick up form earlier in the season so as nt to lose too much pts resulting in them struggling to keep pace at the top of the league to earn themselves a champions league place at the end of the season...all tt remains to be seen is whether kluivert can deliver wat he has been brought to st james's park to do...i certainly want to see him do wat he does best when he was on-form somewhere like 2yrs back??? one disappointing thing is to see lee bowyer in the 1st XI cos his standard isn't really there...the midfield is very competitive in newcastle now and i'm really pleased by that...hehe...bowyer's pecking order definitely is falling...=P
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