Newcastle United FC Soccer News

LONDON (AP) _ Arsenal can make its good start to the season even better when it enters the Carling Cup against Newcastle on Tuesday. The Gunners are top of the Premier League, have tied manager Arsene Wenger to a new contract and have been confirmed as England's most profitable club. They now enter a competition in which they were runners-up last season. In one of eight matches Tuesday, Arsenal meets a Newcastle side enjoying its best start ...

British clubs Rangers, Newcastle, Tottenham and Blackburn advanced to the third round of the UEFA Cup on Thursday with a game to spare. Rangers became the first club to advance with a 2-2 draw against Auxerre in Group A. Newcastle beat Celta Vigo 2-1 in Group H, Blackburn drew 0-0 with Feyenoord in Group H and Tottenham beat Bayer Leverkusen 1-0 in Group B. The first three clubs in the ...

British clubs are thriving in the UEFA Cup. Four of the eight group leaders are British _ Rangers, Blackburn, Tottenham and Newcastle. All four have won their first two group games, and a victory Thursday would put all of them into the knockout round. The UEFA Cup has been a relief for Rangers manager Paul LeGuen, whose club has slipped a whopping 15 points behind rival Celtic in the Scottish ...

Newcastle won 1-0 at Palermo in the second round of the UEFA Cup group stage on Thursday to end the Sicilian club's three-match winning streak. Albert Luque headed in a cross by James Milner in the 37th minute for Newcastle, which improved to six points atop Group H after two games. Eighteen-year-old Newcastle goalkeeper Tim Krul made his club debut after Steve Harper failed a late fitness test, providing two ...

El Hadji Diouf scored two goals in three minutes Sunday to help Bolton rally to beat Newcastle 2-1 in the English Premier League soccer action. Shola Ameobi's penalty gave the Magpies a 19th-minute lead at St. James Park, but the Senegal striker punished two lapses in the Newcastle defence with goals in the 55th and 57th minutes. Bolton moved into third place with 17 points, within two points of both Manchester United and Chelsea. Ameobi scored his penalty ...

Kevin Bond, who was fired as Newcastle's assistant manager after being implicated in a bribery investigation, was named manager of Bournemouth on Thursday. Bond, who was a Bournemouth defender in the 1980s, replaces Sean O'Driscoll, who quit to take over Doncaster last month. Bond's contract with the third division team will run through the current season. Bournemouth, winless in six games, is 15th in the 24-team League One. Bond was fired by Newcastle on Sept. 26, a week after ...

Newcastle United defender Craig Moore won't get a homecoming parade. A missed training session cost him a place in the international send off match for several of his Socceroos teammates and Paraguay captain Carlos Gamarra. Australia meets Paraguay on Saturday in a belated welcome home to most members of the squad that reached the World Cup second round, where a last-minute penalty resulted in a 1-0 loss to eventual champion ...

Newcastle United defender Craig Moore has been suspended from the Australian squad for missing scheduled training and public appearances ahead of Saturday's soccer friendly against Paraguay. With captain Mark Viduka unavailable, Moore had been a likely candidate to lead Australia against Paraguay in Brisbane and next week in an Asian Cup qualifier against Bahrain at Sydney. But he missed a flight from Sydney to Brisbane on Wednesday, missing training and ...

Newcastle fired assistant coach Kevin Bond on Tuesday, six days after he was implicated in an investigation into bribery in English soccer. Newcastle had put Bond on paid leave since the screening of a BBC investigation on Wednesday. The bribery allegations stem from when Bond was assistant to Harry Redknapp at Portsmouth. ``Newcastle United has terminated Kevin Bond's contract,'' the club said in statement. ``There is no further comment from ...

Newcastle defender Celestine Babayaro will serve a three-game ban for violent conduct after pleading guilty Friday to a challenge on Liverpool striker Dirk Kuyt. The incident took place in Liverpool's 2-0 Premier League victory at Anfield on Wednesday. It was missed by officials covering the game, but seen on a video replay. He will miss Sunday's game against Everton, and matches against Manchester United and Bolton.

Newcastle goalkeeper Shay Given is out of Wednesday's Premier League game at Liverpool after undergoing stomach surgery. Given, who signed a five-year contract with the club last season, was taken off with four minutes remaining in Saturday's 2-0 victory at West Ham following a collision with West Ham striker Marlon Harewood. ``Shay has had surgery to repair a small tear in his lower stomach,'' Newcastle manager Glenn Roeder said. ``He ...