NUFC.com is a popular fan site for English

England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

 football

Football (soccer)

Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball...

 club Newcastle United

Newcastle United F.C.

Newcastle United Football Club is an English professional association football club based in Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear. The club was founded in 1892 by the merger of Newcastle East End and Newcastle West End, and has played at its current home ground, St James' Park, since the merger...

. It is the online home of an unofficial Newcastle United fans collaboration, which has been running since 1993. The website has been online since 1996 making it the first Newcastle United fan site.

It provides information about players, transfers, rumours related to the club and match reports for Newcastle games (including some reserve and under 18 games). It also provides an archive of historical information such as match reports and statistics.

One of the site's creators, Michael Bolam (known as Biffa), is the author of The Magpies (A Day-to-day life)

Some newspapers such as the Daily Mail

Daily Mail

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 have mistakenly cited Nufc.com as "The Official Newcastle United Site". http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/sport/football.html?in_article_id=360862&in_page_id=1779 The website has also been mentioned by Gazette.net in a story about Oguchi Onyewu

Oguchi Onyewu

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History

NUFC.com began in 1996 as a basic page with information about the club, its players and various other aspects. From the 1999-2000 season onward, reports for every match were published. The main author of these reports is Mike Bolam, however site co-creator Niall MacKenzie also contributes, and a very small number have been written by others, usually when the two main correspondents have been unable to attend a particular match.

In 2000 the website had a series of interviews with John Beresford

John Beresford (footballer)

John Beresford is a former English football player who played as a defender, who is currently a pundit for ITV Tyne Tees and ESPN.-Football career:...

. Beresford was asked before certain matches to give his thoughts on the opposition and these were published on the website. Beresford was one of the few Newcastle players interviewed by NUFC.com. The website often quotes (and attributes) articles from both national and local newspapers which relate to the club.

Recently, the website has acquired sponsorship, in order to provide revenue to aid with maintenance costs. Today the website's major sponsor is Toon Ale and has numerous minor sponsors such as "Marco Polo" restaurant, "Paddy Power

Paddy Power

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" and "The Back Page".

In 2007 Mike Bolam published the book "The Newcastle Miscellany", packed full of Newcastle United facts, figures, quotes and anecdotes, including the wit and wisdom of Bobby Robson: "We can't replace Gary Speed. Where do you get an experienced player with a left foot and a head?"

Main Sections

• Fixtures

• Reports

• Players

• Transfers

• Rumours

• Table

• Stats

• Reserves

• Academy

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The writers of NUFC.com were asked by ITV

ITV

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 to produce some articles for Teletext

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. These were available for a time on page 516.

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Nufc.com has been described as "Ever impressive and totally essential" by True Faith Magazine

True Faith Magazine

True Faith is a Newcastle United fanzine, produced in Newcastle upon Tyne. It is the sister publication of The Mag. The magazine is written in a humorous and cynical style and although it is primarily devoted to Newcastle United it also contains articles on general football culture and nostalgia,...

. http://www.true-faith.co.uk/html/Press/pressvol11.htm It is considered by many to be one of the most informative and well maintained football fan-sites on the internet. Feedback from users of the site can be read on Stumbleupon.com.

The website receives around 51,000 views per day according to Alexa Internet

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