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George Caulkin
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Football writer at The Athletic, Patron of The Sir Bobby Robson Foundation, hapless runner.

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/author/george-caulkin/
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‘Today is your opportunity’

A deep dive behind the scenes at a PL academy - multiple interviews, why a win takes different forms at this level, where a new generation of talent “is coming” & how graduates take #NUFC with them.

W/ @chrisdhwaugh.bsky.social

www.nytimes.com/athletic/671...
‘Today is your opportunity’: Behind the scenes at a Premier League academy
Newcastle United's academy is a place designed to produce good people as well as good players. What they do goes way beyond football
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⚫ "Weaker" after taking lead twice in a row 😬
⚪ 3 1-0 leads thrown away 🚮
⚫ Stats prove toothless nature 🪥
⚪ Issues transitioning to Woltemade style 🇩🇪
⚫ Defensive lapses ❌
⚪ Personnel/system changes? 🔮

🔃 Tweaks are not enough - "soft" #NUFC need a total reset away:
www.nytimes.com/athletic/679...
Newcastle have gone soft. Tweaks are not enough – a significant reset is needed
Can Eddie Howe use this two-week international break to prevent their current lack of goal threat becoming entrenched?
www.nytimes.com
November 10, 2025 at 6:52 AM
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🔲 ANOTHER painful away defeat 😫
🔳 Soft underbelly 🐖
🔲 Goals a real issue 😬
🔳 Fundamental reset required? 🔍
🔲 Full-backs needed ASAP ‼️
🔳 Where is Paul? 👀

🎧 New free-to-listen Matchday @podonthetyne.bsky.social for Brentford 3-1 #NUFC w/ @georgecaulkin.bsky.social:
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Pod On The Tyne: A show about Newcastle United: Matchday PotT: Brentford (a), Burn red card, everyone red-faced
It would be fair to say this isn't the way Eddie Howe would have liked to mark his fourth anniversary at Newcastle United.The manager who finally ended the club's trophy drought and brought top-tie...
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November 9, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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😱 Brentford 3 Newcastle 1: Briefing ... 😱

⚫️So much for the "period of reflection."
⚪️Abysmal away form - #NUFC are soft.
⚫️Barnes' goal
⚪️Burn's red

w/ @chrisdhwaugh.bsky.social @anantaajith.bsky.social

www.nytimes.com/athletic/6787431/2025/11/09/brentford-3-newcastle-1-howe-away-form-burn-sent-off
Brentford 3 Newcastle 1 – What’s going so wrong on the road? What happened to Burn after the break?
Newcastle simply do not like playing away from St James' Park - The Athletic analyses their latest defeat on the road
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November 9, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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🌤️ Glorious morning in west London, after fog in the morning - & extremely mild. 👕

⚫⚪ #NUFC face Brentford, looking to win for the first time on the road in the Premier League since April, & having been humbled here 4-2 last season. ✈️

#WaughWeatherReport #BRENEW
November 9, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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#NUFC XI vs Brentford: Pope; Trippier, Thiaw, Botman, Burn; Guimaraes, Tonali, Joelinton; Murphy, Woltemade, Barnes

#BRENEW
November 9, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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www.nytimes.com/athletic/677...
Middlesbrough give Wolves permission to speak with head coach Rob Edwards
The former Watford and Luton Town head coach was stood down from managerial duties for Middlesbrough's game with Birmingham on Saturday.
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November 8, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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🔲 (Sir) Les Ferdinand on THAT Dan Burn header ⚽
🔳 #NUFC = cup team? 🏆
🔲 Impressive #UCL position 🇪🇺
🔳 Why Silverstone's race as CCO is run 🏁
🔲 Brentford (A) is the real test 😬

🎧 New free-to-listen @podonthetyne.bsky.social w/ @georgecaulkin.bsky.social & Taylor Payne: pod.fo/e/34cbcb
Pod On The Tyne: A show about Newcastle United: Ridiculous to sublime: Burn's heady header eases pain of Hammer horror
Newcastle United delivered a routine Champions League win and, at the halfway point in the first stage, they are sixth in the League league. The headlines were all about a header on Wednesday night...
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November 7, 2025 at 6:42 AM
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◾ Anthony Gordon a doubt as scan results awaited ⌛
◽ Will Osula facing "weeks, not months" out due to ankle problem 🤕
◾ Yoane Wissa injury-free, but building fitness will take time ⏱️

🗣️ Eddie Howe on #NUFC team news ahead of Sunday's trip to Brentford:
www.nytimes.com/athletic/678...
Anthony Gordon set to miss Newcastle’s trip to Brentford with hip injury
The 24-year-old has been struggling with a hip issue this season and left the pitch injured against Athletic Club on Wednesday.
www.nytimes.com
November 7, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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🎙️⚽️🔳Weekly PotT*🔳⚽️🎙️

@taylorpayne.bsky.social @chrisdhwaugh.bsky.social @georgecaulkin.bsky.social

🚀Burn’s divine header
🇪🇺 Another routine #UCL win
🎢 Rollercoaster continues
🔨Horror flashback
🏎️Silverstone’s chequered flag

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*award nominated
Pod On The Tyne: A show about Newcastle United: Ridiculous to sublime: Burn's heady header eases pain of Hammer horror
Newcastle United delivered a routine Champions League win and, at the halfway point in the first stage, they are sixth in the League league. The headlines were all about a header on Wednesday night...
pod.fo
November 6, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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Basically, if you want to hear a man (me) declaring his undying love for a man heading a football - and why wouldn’t you? - then here is Pod on the Tyne Extra Tyne.

Feat. @chrisdhwaugh.bsky.social @taylorpayne.bsky.social
@podonthetyne.bsky.social

#NUFC

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Pod On The Tyne | Pod On The Tyne
An independent podcast covering Newcastle United Football Club with Taylor Payne, Chris Waugh, and George Caulkin.
podonthetyne.supportingcast.fm
November 6, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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Very chuffed that
@podonthetyne.bsky.social
has been nominated for club podcast of the year alongside some truly brilliant shows.

Huge thanks to the FSA for this honour & to our lovely listeners for their amazing support for our independent pod. #NUFC ❤️

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FSA Awards 2025 - vote now! - Football Supporters' Association
We are pleased to announce the shortlists for the 2025 Football Supporters’ Association Awards – voting is open now and fans can back their favourites here. 91 candidates are battling it out across 16...
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November 6, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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In a routine win over Athletic Club, Eddie Howe's team once again showed how impressive they can be when they play with conviction.

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The two Newcastles: one is grating and mediocre, the other a glorious cup team
In a routine win over Athletic Club, Eddie Howe's team once again showed how impressive they can be when they play with conviction
www.nytimes.com
November 6, 2025 at 9:31 AM
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Good in the cups, mediocre in the league, decent at home, poor away … #NUFC are nothing if not predictable (in their inconsistency). Even after West Ham, you could see this win coming.

www.nytimes.com/athletic/678...
The two Newcastles: one is grating and mediocre, the other a glorious cup team
In a routine win over Athletic Club, Eddie Howe's team once again showed how impressive they can be when they play with conviction
www.nytimes.com
November 6, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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🎧 To join @podonthetyne.bsky.social Supporting Cast & listen to this 'Extra Tyne' episode - plus all the others - then follow the link please #NUFC fans.

🔲 Ad-free option for normal pods ❎
🔳 Option for 'Extra Tyne' weekly additional episodes 🎙️ podonthetyne.supportingcast.fm
Pod On The Tyne | Pod On The Tyne
An independent podcast covering Newcastle United Football Club with Taylor Payne, Chris Waugh, and George Caulkin.
podonthetyne.supportingcast.fm
November 6, 2025 at 6:47 AM
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🔲 'Routine' #UCL win? 🇪🇺
🔳 Predictable - but will Brentford be too? 🔮
🔲 @georgecaulkin.bsky.social managed not to cry at Burn's wonder header 😍
🔳 Taylor Payne's double life 🎸⚽

🎧 New @podonthetyne.bsky.social Extra Tyne for subscribers from #NUFC 2-0 Athletic Bilbao:
podonthetyne.supportingcast.fm
Pod On The Tyne | Pod On The Tyne
An independent podcast covering Newcastle United Football Club with Taylor Payne, Chris Waugh, and George Caulkin.
podonthetyne.supportingcast.fm
November 6, 2025 at 6:47 AM
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⚫ Burn's beautiful, curled header 😍
⚪ Gordon struggles - ^ departs early 🤕
⚫ 6th in #UCL table 👀
⚪ 3 games, 3 wins, 3 clean sheets 🤯
⚫ Expected West Ham response - but will Brentford be different? 🔮

📝 #NUFC 2-0 Athletic Bilbao analysis w/ @georgecaulkin.bsky.social: www.nytimes.com/athletic/677...
Newcastle 2 Athletic 0 – One win from the knockouts? Goal of the season…with a header?
Chris Waugh and George Caulkin consider the key talking points as Eddie Howe's team cruise to a third-straight win in Europe
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November 5, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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Teamsheet for #NUFC vs Athletic Club
November 5, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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💡 Back under the lights at St James' Park & it is an extremely mild night, following a wet morning. Long sleeves were an error. 💧

⚫⚪ #NUFC host Athletic Bilbao, looking to bounce back from the defeat at West Ham, & record a 3rd-straight #UCL win. 🇪🇺

#WaughWeatherReport
November 5, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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👀 "Now & forever — however good they become — the Geordie nation needs to fight."

🔍 Sir John Hall once compared Newcastle to Basque region. As Athletic Bilbao, with a clear identity, visit, @georgecaulkin.bsky.social asks if #NUFC have a clear Geordie identity? www.nytimes.com/athletic/677...
Is Newcastle’s Geordie nation a dream, a delusion or a state of mind?
Before their Champions League meeting with Athletic Club, George Caulkin asks what civic and regional identity means to Newcastle
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November 5, 2025 at 7:23 AM
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◾ How does Howe change #NUFC's woeful away form? 🔍
❔ Why has Gordon's PL form dipped so drastically? 🤷
◾ Changes for Bilbao? 🔃

⁉️ @theathleticfc.bsky.social's "Inside #NUFC" live Q&A takes place from 2-3pm GMT. Qs via the link: www.nytimes.com/athletic/677...
Inside Newcastle Q&A: Chris Waugh answers your questions
After the defeat at West Ham, put your Newcastle questions to our writer Chris Waugh, and he will endeavour to answer as many as possible
www.nytimes.com
November 3, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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“How shit must you be, we’re winning at home.”

The answer to this rhetorical question, posed by West Ham fans, was obvious and unavoidable.

#NUFC were awful.

www.nytimes.com/athletic/677...
Newcastle’s worst performance under Eddie Howe? It was pretty s***
A great opportunity for Newcastle United had become a great test. The results from the test are in: abject failure
www.nytimes.com
November 3, 2025 at 7:43 AM
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Oh lord, it’s PotT matchday.

A grim day in east London for #NUFC - one of the worst under Eddie Howe, whose team are still groping for a first PL away win this season.

@podonthetyne.bsky.social
@taylorpayne.bsky.social
@jacobwhitehead.bsky.social
@chrisdhwaugh.bsky.social

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Pod On The Tyne: A show about Newcastle United: PotT Matchday: West Ham (a); late Halloween nightmare
We haven't felt like this in a while; perhaps not since West Ham (h) last season. It's possible today was even worse than that. Was it our worst performance under Howe?Despite playing a team incapa...
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November 3, 2025 at 7:12 AM
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🔲 Worst display of Howe era? 😱
🔳 Poor on the field - & poor subs/tactical tweaks 😬
🔲 @georgecaulkin.bsky.social @jacobwhitehead.bsky.social watch late Halloween Horror show live 🎃
🔳 Any positives? ❌
🔲 Lasses™️ finally win 🙌

🎧 @podonthetyne.bsky.social Matchday for #WHUFC 3-1 #NUFC:
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Pod On The Tyne: A show about Newcastle United: PotT Matchday: West Ham (a); late Halloween nightmare
We haven't felt like this in a while; perhaps not since West Ham (h) last season. It's possible today was even worse than that. Was it our worst performance under Howe?Despite playing a team incapa...
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November 2, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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#WHUFC 3-1 #NUFC — and in truth, it could have been more.

Complacent first-half performance turned into tired drudgery in the second.

Once more, Newcastle's identity threatens to be inconsistency — are there parallels with two seasons ago?

www.nytimes.com/athletic/676...
West Ham 3 Newcastle 1 – Why are Howe’s side so bad away from home? Where does it leave them?
Analysis of Newcastle's Premier League game away to West Ham
www.nytimes.com
November 2, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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West Ham! And what a beautiful day it is in London, where the streets are paved with pigeon shit.

Will #NUFC finally notch up an away win in the Premier League? That’s what I’m here to find out.
November 2, 2025 at 12:31 PM