Fixtures up and down the country last weekend were postponed following the sad passing of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. Her death is acknowledged throughout Saturday’s programme, with Sir John Hall among those to pay tribute. Sir John welcomed the late Queen and Prince Philip to St. James’ Park in 1997, and remembers the Royal pair’s visit in detail.
In addition to that, as well as a five-page interview with Targett, there’s lots, lots more for fans to read through as the Magpies welcome Eddie Howe’s former club, AFC Bournemouth, to Tyneside.
Sky Sports presenter Pete Graves and Gavin Haigh, who likely owns the largest collection of Newcastle shirts anywhere in the world, both provide columns, while Kyle Crossley and Sharna Wilkinson provide updates from United’s academy and women’s side respectively.
A packed historical section includes four pages from club historian Paul Joannou, who remembers Newcastle’s first ever game under floodlights, and another four from regular UNITED columnist Stan Gate, who looks at the Magpies’ FA Cup double-header against the Cherries in 1991/92. Toon Voyage!, meanwhile – the new feature in which we pick out and detail some of the most significant geographical locations in the club’s history – continues with a look at some of the pubs of Byker and Heaton.
Newcastle’s new head of supporter services, Sarah Medcalf, is next up in United Backstage, while we bring you ten pages on Bournemouth, four more especially for Junior Magpies as well as Howe and Jamaal Lascelles’ regular columns.