I LOVE beating Arsenal. I absolutely LOVE IT. They just take it SO badly — it’s always somebody else’s fault, they’ve always been swindled, it’s not fair, they’re the Corinthians of the English game dontcha know. There are toys scattered all around North London.

Hull City 0 Manchester United 0: If Hull had played like this more often this season, they most likely would never have been in such a sorry state.

John Carver will continue to lead Newcastle into the final three games of an increasingly calamitous campaign after surviving crisis talks at the club’s training ground yesterday.

Argentine defender Fabricio Coloccini has been installed as surprise favourite to take over as manager at Newcastle, should Alan Pardew leave the club as expected.

Sunderland 1 Hull 3 Sunderland were tormented by the ghost of Christmas Past as Steve Bruce returned once again to haunt them.

Newcastle boss Alan Pardew believes it will be "impossible" for Chelsea to remain unbeaten in all four major competitions this season.

Alan Pardew is still clinging on to his job as Newcastle manager despite mounting speculation he will be sacked in the wake of Saturday’s 4-0 defeat at Southampton.

Manchester City striker Edin Dzeko has capped a dream start to the new Barclays Premier League season by signing a new four-year contract with the club.

Cardiff’s hopes of striding closer to Barclays Premier League survival suffered a setback as Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s men were held to a dramatic 1-1 draw at home to Stoke.

A 42-year-old man has died after collapsing at the finish line of the London Marathon while police are looking to trace a female runner who has not been seen since the race finished.

A 42-year-old man has died after collapsing at the finish line of the London Marathon, organisers said.

Mike Ashley has alienated Newcastle fans, who now see no prospect of their club ever challenging for major honours with the billionaire in charge.

Newcastle 0 West Ham 0

West Ham 0 Newcastle 0

Newcastle boss Alan Pardew is ready to launch a concerted bid for Europa League glory as he gears up for their toughest test to date at St James’s Park tonight (8.05pm, live on ESPN).

Newcastle Utd 1 Aston Villa 1

Britain enjoyed the hottest day of the year so far as the mercury rose above 30C today.

With the Games just around the corner and tickets all but sold out, Brian Canty looks at how you can watch it on the cheap in London

Donations are continuing to pour in to a charity in memory of an “inspirational” runner who collapsed and died during the London Marathon.

A 30-year-old woman collapsed and died while running in the London Marathon, organisers said.

NEW Birmingham manager Chris Hughton is certain he will to lose some of the club’s star names this summer and plans to tackle arguably the biggest of his immediate issues in the coming days.

FROM the heights of St James’s Park, Old Trafford and international football, to a midlands derby in the Airtricity First Division, Keith Gillespie has seen soccer at all levels in his interesting career.

BP’s clean-up efforts in the Gulf of Mexico could be hit by a further setback with a tropical storm threatening to home in on the spill region.

Villa Park has been withdrawn as a venue for the 2012 Olympic football tournament.

Tearful football fans flocked to Newcastle United’s St James’s Park stadium today to pay their respects to Bobby Robson following his death yesterday at the age of 76.

GEORDIES are a strange breed; Newcastle only have to announce the signing of a second-rate player and for whom they have paid well over the odds and they all descend on St James’s Park in their thousands, loud and invariably bare-chested (and that’s just the women), telling all and sundry that this is the signing that will change their fortunes.

ALAN SHEARER’S expected return to St James’s Park in a temporary managerial role is owner Mike Ashley’s final throw of the dice as he tries to keep his club in the Premier League.

NEWCASTLE defender Fabricio Coloccini is urging his team-mates to keep manager Joe Kinnear in their thoughts as they attempt to claw their way out of relegation trouble.

THERE must be a sadomasochistic streak buried deep within Shay Given. Having finally extricated himself from the Newcastle United madhouse, booking into the loony bin that is Manchester City seems akin to a particularly extreme form of self-flagellation.

OUR football correspondent LIAM MACKEY is back in top form and full of energy.

AFTER the first 60 minutes at Middle Eastlands I had mentally crafted this column as a thesis on which set of supporters this weekend looked the biggest set of plums — the Manchester City fans swathed in tea-towels and Brazil shirts or those braying Geordies with their paranoid banners about “the Cockney Mafia.”

Police are today preparing for a series of demonstrations by Newcastle United fans against club owner Mike Ashley.

Angry fans gathered outside Newcastle United’s ground to protest at manager Kevin Keegan’s apparent second departure from the club after less than eight months in charge.

NEWCASTLE boss Kevin Keegan has signalled his intention to bring the thrills back to St James’s Park by making Argentina winger Jonas Gutierrez his first summer signing.

IT is almost 10 years since Michael Owen announced himself as a major player on football’s international stage with a wonderful World Cup goal against Argentina in St Etienne.

Alex Ferguson is wary that Chelsea could come up on the rails and take the Barclays Premier League title.

Liverpool defender Daniel Agger could make his comeback at Newcastle in the club’s first match after the international break.

HUNDREDS of demonstrators marched through London yesterday to call for immediate action to end the conflict in Darfur.

It's Euro 2008 International Week and the Irish Examiner's football correspondent Liam Mackey is doing his Man in a Suitcase impersonation around Eastern Europe.

NEWCASTLE boss Sam Allardyce is banking on Michael Owen to help him overcome the fear factor as he prepares to take charge at St James’s Park for the first time today.

Michael Owen will return to the Newcastle squad for tomorrow’s Barclays Premier League clash with Aston Villa at St James’s Park after successfully recovering from a thigh injury.

Newcastle defender Steven Taylor has set his sights on shutting out Chelsea hitman Didier Drogba to further enhance his growing reputation.

AMERICAN international Oguchi Onyewu is proving a star in stripes at Newcastle, where the defender played a significant role in ensuring a losing start to Liverpool’s new era under American billionaires Tom Hicks and George Gillett.

NEWCASTLE boss Glenn Roeder paid tribute to the mental strength of his players after their first win in the Premiership in 10 matches.