A Mischief of Magpies: Newcastle United from the USA

For the third consecutive match, Newcastle United exposes a vast gulf in quality between it and sorry Manchester United, winning 1-0 with the only real question being how the score wasn't worse. Kevin discusses Manchester United's star player Lunenberg (seriously), and we gawk with wonder as Eddie Howe continues his masterclass on morale. Also, Sunderland away for the FA Cup. The script writers ha...

Bill and Kevin discuss the PSG match in the Champions League, including all the positives of what should have been a performance remembered for ages but was ultimately vandalized by horrid refereeing. Does Newcastle's outperformances under the circumstances come down to their incredible morale?  Still all to play for in the Champions League, and a whole host of huge fixtures upcoming for the lads....

Bill and Andrew -- beset by audio problems -- break down perhaps the most surprising game of the season of the month: a role reversal as once-mighty high-cost Chelsea is reduced to smash & grab tactics against a Newcastle team which looked more like a kamikaze mission than a squad.

George Caulkin from The Athletic joins Bill and Kevin to talk about bizarre American foods(peanut & pickle burgers? Raccoon? Things encased in jello?), being thankful, how the Portland Trailblazers accidentally won, and the amazing transformation of Newcastle United. Replete with insights and humor that only the Seer of Cheer can provide.

Bill reviews an extraordinary week in which a deeply depleted Newcastle squad won 2 and lost 1 versus Manchester United, Arsenal and Borussia Dortmund. Also, since the rest of the league wants to keep changing the rules to slow down the metamorphosis of Newcastle, Bill asks an impertinent question: why does the club bother to follow the rules anyway?

It's Game 4 of the Group of Sexy! We are joined by Eli Brand to talk about Borussia Dortmund, why he thinks Emre Can is terrible, and the German art of mashing words together.

Bill and Kevin discuss how the officiating in Newcastle's 1-0 victory over Arsenal at St. James's Park was flawless, Bruno definitely is a very level-headed, professional footballer, and how Kai Havertz absolutely deserved to stay on the pitch, and definitely doesn't bring down the quality level of everything he participates in.  Wink, wink.  Another match of the year of the week sees Newcastle st...

Andrew from Forrest Hall has competition for his place from a new intern off the street: some gadgie named "Bill!" Publican Tom also joins the pod for a hot minute in what amounts to nothing more than a free advert for his pub. We relish UNITED'S 3-0 practice match victory over The Manchester Red Team, look back on a well-earned point at Molineux, and be sure to stick around for just the absolute...

Kevin is once again joined by Summer Intern Andrew from Forest Hall, who kept bringing up someone named Bill, whom I must say, no one at Mischief of Magpies HQ can remember ever meeting.  We review the 4-0 shellacking of Crystal Palace, our dominant right side, Fabian Schar's beautiful 40-yard balls, and we introduce a brand new Opta statistic! We carefully dip our big toes in the ongoing investig...

With Bill calling in from the Mischief of Magpies African HQ in Mozambique, we're joined by very good friend of the podcast, West Ham Lee!  Hear Lee try to argue that West Ham are better with out Lil' Decky, hear Bill declair David Moyes to be a psychological tactical mastermind, and hear Kevin describe his post-goal pub celebration, which clearly "woke the ju-ju."   

Kevin just hasn't bragged enough about attending the PSG v Newcastle Champions League match on Wednesday night, so he's back for more.  On that fateful, historic Wednesday, good friend of the podcast Charlotte Robson, from the True Faith podcast, spent a few minutes chatting about the UCL draw, predictions for the season, and Alexander Isak's stankface.  Kevin also gives local burger recommendatio...

Kevin joins us from Glasgow as he heads home following Newcastle's historic, audacious , fantastic 4-1 statement of intent against PSG in the Champions League Group of Death. We celebrate a fantastic performance across the board with huge props to our back pair, who worked, seemingly, as one. He does, roughly, pronounce Feyenood right this time, but has a hell of a time with "infamy."

Kevin and Andrew from Forest Hall break down Newcastle's dominant 2-0 win over Burnley. Another masterclass from Anthony Gordon, Kieran Trippier and Sean Longstaff. And remember two weeks ago when people were complaining about Eddie Howe and Bruno Guimaraes? Shhhhhhhhhhhhh. Also, you know, the 4th "biggest game in 20 years" of the year is coming up tomorrow & Kevin is going. NBD.

A big midweek treat as Eddie Howe gets his first win over Manchester City. Kevin has no idea how to pronounce Feyenoord. And a fantastic showing from our back line against the best club in the world.

Recorded just moments after Newcastle's uncompromising dominance of Sheffield United, we're joined by Summer Intern Andrew from Forest Hall, Posh Barry from High Heaton, and new friend of the show, Historical Harvey from the also-posh part of Durham.   It's a party atmosphere in the Hawk and Griffin, and we do our best to stay on the topic of Newcastle's historic 8-0 victory, with eight different...

Newcastle United brings its unbeaten streak in the San Siro to two after a nervy 0-0 match in which Italian giants AC Milan gave a clinic in being ready for the big stage, only for Newcastle's confidence to increase throughout the match. Bill and Kevin give their thoughts on the match and why supporters can't seem to agree who played well.

Happy Champions League Eve to those who celebrate! Bill & Kevin are joined by Nathan Araia of the Milan Club DC to get his view of tomorrow's match between AC Milan and Newcastle United.

Newcastle passes its final pre-Champions League test with a nervy, ugly 1-0 win over Brentford. Next up, the San Siro and a Champions League tilt in the Group of Sexy against Italian giants AC Milan. Been a long, long time in coming.

John Kenkel joins Bill to talk about the wonderful last two years of supporting Brentford as we preview the match. We are honored to share the Hawk & Griffin with the local Brentford supporters group so this weekend is going to be a blast.  Even better for John, who tells Bill that he is going to watch the match in the away end of St. James' Park. 

No Premier League matches this weekend, so let's take a quick look back to the Summer Series this past July, where Newcastle played games in Philadelphia, Atlanta and New Jersey. It was an incredible experience to meet and hang out with so many Newcastle supporters from around the globe.  We were so excited to be able to record a few of their stories, and have put them together here for your liste...

With Bill missing, Andrew from Forest Hall makes his first team debut, and weighs in on Newcastle's suddenly shaky defense, a confusing midfield situation and Newcastle restaurants.  Recording live from the Hawk and Griffin, we hear far too much noise from people who were clearly paid to watch Arsenal vs. the Manchester Red Team.

You know why Group F of the Champions League is the "Group of Death?" Because Newcastle United is in it. Bill & Kevin give their quick reaction to an historic day for the Newcastle United Football Club. 

Hey, look! Another opportunity to take positives from a loss! The occasion was too big for John Brooks as he leaves the card in his pocket after an obvious second yellow. Still, Liverpool played so well with 10 players, imagine how they would have done with 9?

Newcastle follows up its torrid start to the season with a trip to the champions' lair and get knocked down a peg. Kevin is upset while Bill thinks that it wasn't a bad showing against Pep's boys when they unleashed the kraken and only got one goal. We talk We Are Newcastle, the fury of Darren Eales, Bruno vs. the whiners, and the upcoming match against Liverton.

Bill & Kevin review the most important parts of Newcastle's 5-1 demolition of Aston Villa including: -- the white socks -- How Martinez was unlucky to stay on the field -- the goal celebrations -- Sandro Toonali's dream opener -- Aston Villa's nightmare -- Looking at Manchester City with absolutely no fear