Last season Newcastle United Football Club banned reporters of The Daily Mail from all games, the training ground, and from all press conferences. This decision had been reluctantly taken after repeated irresponsible press coverage.

The Daily Mail have recently made approaches through the Association of Editors for the ban to be reviewed. Newcastle United Football Club were considering that request when The Mail on Sunday decided to publish its disgraceful story about Lord Triesman. That story was not in the best interest of English football and has had enormous adverse repercussions already with regard to the 2018 World Cup bid.

Newcastle United Football Club supports the stance taken by Gary Lineker who has ceased to provide a column for the newspaper and has been outspoken in his criticism.

The Daily Mail and The Mail on Sunday, will be unwelcome at Newcastle United for the foreseeable future. The club has also written to the Premier League and all other Premier League Chairmen, asking for their support in Newcastle's stance against these publications.

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Loše vesti stigle su danas iz Argentinskog kampa, gde je Diego Maradona pročitao 23 putnika za World Cup u Južnoj Africi. Na tom spisku nalazi se Jonás Gutiérrez, ali na njemu nažalost, nije bilo mesta i za Fabricio Coloccini-a.

Diego Maradona je par nedelja ranije, uvrstio Coloccini-a u spisak od 30 igrača, koji će biti potencijalni putnici na World Cup, ali je danas taj spisak suzio na 23 igrača, gde za Coloccini-a nije bilo mesta. Iznenađenje je veće u tom, što je Maradona u 23 putnika uvrstio i tridesetogodišnjeg defanzivca Colon-a, Ariel Garce-a, koji je do sad odigrao samo jedan jedini meč za Argentinu.

Među 23 putnika, nije bilo mesta ni za Inter-ov dvojac, Esteban Cambiasso i Javier Zanetti, kao i za Fernando Gago-a iz Real Madrid-a i Gabriel Milito-a iz Barcelona-e.

Argentininih 23 igrača za World Cup 2010:

Sergio Romero (AZ Alkmaar), Mariano Andujar (Catania), Diego Pozo (Colon); Nicolas Burdisso (Roma), Martin Demichelis (Bayern Munich), Walter Samuel (Inter Milan), Gabriel Heinze (Marseille), Nicolas Otamendi (Velez Sarsfield), Clemente Rodriguez (Estudiantes), Ariel Garce (Colon); Javier Mascherano (Liverpool), Juan Sebastian Veron (Estudiantes), Maxi Rodriguez (Liverpool), Mario Bolatti (Fiorentina), Angel Di Maria (Benfica), Jonas Gutierrez (Newcastle), Javier Pastore (Palermo); Sergio Aguero (Atletico Madrid), Diego Milito (Inter Milan), Martin Palermo (Boca Juniors), Carlos Tevez (Manchester City), Gonzalo Higuain (Real Madrid), Lionel Messi (Barcelona).

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Newcastle United are pleased to announce the appointment of Wendy Taylor as its new Head of Media.

Wendy joins United from Newcastle International Airport where she managed the press office for six years.

In looking forward to her new role, Wendy said:

"I am excited and immensely proud to be taking on this role at such a prestigious football club as Newcastle United. It's an enormous challenge but one that I am very eager to take on. I am looking forward to working closely with all areas of the media; developing and strengthening our relationships off the pitch."

In relation to recent media speculation following the statement made by the Club on May 9, Newcastle United would like to make it clear that owner Mike Ashley is not looking for his interest free loan to be repaid, or to take any money out of the Club.

May 11, 2010

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