Here are your Newcastle United evening headlines on Tuesday, August 22.
Bruno a victim of his own success as angry tweet shows Newcastle hero is in unfamiliar territory
As Newcastle United and Everton battled it out on a cold February evening in 2022, Bruno Guimaraes emerged from the Magpies bench for the very first time. “Bruno, Bruno, Bruno!” was the immediate chant from each of the four St James’ Park corners as the Brazilian warmed up on the touchline, waving to his new subjects.
Many of the supporters singing his name that day had never seen him kick a ball before. Guimaraes, plucked from Lyon by Newcastle’s trusted team of scouts, had made his name in Brazil and France but was still relatively unknown by many moderate football fans on these shores.
Little did Newcastle fans know that night but they were chanting the name of a player who would soon ascend to almost untouchable status in black and white. After waiting six matches for his first start, Bruno soon made sure Howe had no choice but to use him from the outset each week with stellar performances, fitting of a player who had been in the Premier League for six years as opposed to six weeks.
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Fast forward to present day, after 18 months of unadulterated infatuation between both parties, and Guimaraes has finally experienced his first, small, run in with Newcastle supporters as he aimed an explosive tweet at a fan account on Tuesday. “Is it too early in the season to start focusing blame onto individual players? Was there an overreaction to the loss to Man City?” the fan group asked, with a photo of Guimaraes, Miguel Almiron, Joelinton and Dan Burn attached to the tweet.
“Is this serious?” the Brazilian responded. “We are in Champions League football we lost against maybe one of the best teams in the world and we have a big win and lost one game! Support in the best moment is easy! Short stupid memories you all have look what we have done for the team this 1 year and half.”
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Lewis Hall’s first words as a Newcastle United player after Chelsea loan switch confirmed
Newcastle United have completed their move for Lewis Hall from Chelsea with Eddie Howe delighted with the arrival of the England Under-21 international.
Hall arrives on an initial loan deal with a permanent transfer of £35million set to kick in at the end of the season. The player recently signed a new deal with Chelsea but was keen to make the move to Tyneside once it became clear that United were prepared to pay a big fee.
After signing on the dotted line, Hall said: “I’m very proud. Me and my family are Newcastle fans, and for me and my brother growing up, it was drilled into us that we were Newcastle. It’s a big club and I can’t wait to get started.
“I got a lot of experience last year in some big fixtures and I was really proud of the way I progressed as a player and a person. To now be here at Newcastle, the club that I’ve supported since I was a kid, I’m honoured and very proud to wear this shirt.
“It’s very exciting. When you look back on last season and the way the team performed – not just the results, but the performances the team were putting in – it was amazing.
“There’s so many talented players and we’ve got the Champions League now as well so there’s many different competitions that I know the team will be wanting to do well in, and hopefully get a trophy or two as well.”
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Alan Shearer turns the air blue as referee chief Howard Webb owns up to costly Newcastle error
Howard Webb has revealed that he hoped Newcastle United stayed up after the former referee wrongly disallowed Mark Viduka’s equaliser against Fulham in 2009.
Newcastle, who were out of the relegation zone at the start of play, had the chance to take a huge step towards safety in their penultimate game of a turbulent campaign. However, Newcastle dropped to 18th place following a damaging 1-0 defeat against Fulham at St James’ Park.
Newcastle’s fate was out of their hands going into the final day and Alan Shearer’s side simply had to better Hull City’s result against Manchester United, which the black-and-whites failed to do following another 1-0 loss at Aston Villa. However, as poor as Newcastle were over the course of the season, it could have been different.
When Newcastle were 1-0 down against Fulham, for instance, Viduka controversially had a goal ruled out in the second half. Kevin Nolan had been, in Webb’s words, ‘standing on the toes’ of goalkeeper Mark Schwarzer at corners and the referee momentarily stopped Newcastle taking a set-piece after seeing the midfielder do it again.
When the corner finally came into the box, Webb spotted Nolan moving towards Schwarzer. The official ‘reacted too quickly’ and blew his whistle – just as Viduka had headed the ball into the back of the net.
“As I’m blowing the whistle, I’m thinking, ‘Oh my goodness. I’ve blown too soon,'” the PGMOL chief recalled to Shearer on the Rest Is Football podcast. “There was no VAR, no opportunity to change it, and I spent the rest of the day thinking, ‘I hope Newcastle come into this game.’ They didn’t and I ended up having to send a player off [Sebastien Bassong] for a professional foul as well and Newcastle lost.
“You went to Aston Villa on the last day needing a win and you obviously didn’t get it. I was down at West Ham on the same day coming off the field thinking, ‘I hope Newcastle have got something out of the game because, otherwise, that’s going to be pretty significant, that decision to disallow that goal.'”
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