Matt Smith

Newcastle United ⚽

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[Matt Smith @matty_smith7]

Still the best commentary I will ever hear https://t.co/tsVDaP98bF

[Harvey Gales @Gales9_]

RIP Cheick Tiote. #NUFC

https://t.co/LDmq8iVbD1

[Matt Smith @matty_smith7]

@IAmNUFCAirport @Mattytargett @FrancisChipp @leom1993

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@Lord_Sugar 9

[Matt Smith @matty_smith7]

@SavMondo I thought there was only the original ff7 and the remake! Well that's fun news haven't played them for years

[Matt Smith @matty_smith7]

@NUFCcook That's what I have in my head, surely it can't be hall RB

[NUFC Blog @NUFCBlogcouk]

🗓️ 14 years ago today…

🇫🇷 Hatem Ben Arfa’s solo goal vs Bolton

One of the most gifted players I’ve ever seen at Newcastle United.

#NUFC

[Premier League @premierleague]

A long run and sublime finish to win the game in the 90th minute for @NUFC 😱

William Osula's stunning solo effort wins Guinness Goal of the Month for March 🏃‍♂️

[Matt Smith @matty_smith7]

@SGW1973toon @LukeEdwardsTele @NUFC360 550m, 100'mill each, Bruno extra 50 as he's our captain

[Football Tweet ⚽ @Footballtweet]

🇫🇮 After helping secure promotion to the Eredivisie this week, ADO Den Haag centre-back Diogo Tomas gave one of the all-time interviews.

✅ Smoking
✅ Swearing
✅ Referring to himself in the third person.

🗣️ "I AM WHO I AM."

[Matt Smith @matty_smith7]

@talkSPORT 200m

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@paddypower Surely Chelsea's is worse?

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@DeadlineDayLive Is that the loan fee?

[Matt Smith @matty_smith7]

@Footballtweet It said "stop leaking the fucking team"

[Matt Smith @matty_smith7]

Imagine how nuts people would go if the team is announced later and Bruno was starting 😂😂🤯 #nufc won't happen but a man can dream

[Matt Smith @matty_smith7]

@StanCollymore Livramento a good back up but also had injury issues from time to time

[Henry Winter @henrywinter]

Good result for Chelsea: club fined only £10m and given a suspended transfer ban after Premier League found 36 separate undisclosed payments totalling £47.5m made “to 12 persons or entities on behalf of the club”. Lenient sanctions. No sporting sanctions. Yet these are serious offences, as the sanction agreement between the PL and Chelsea makes clear, stating “they were not only obvious and deliberate breaches of the rules but also because they involved deception and concealment in relation to financial matters”.

Yet no points deductions. Just a manageable (if record) fine and a “suspended one-year first-team player transfer ban (suspended for two years)”. Surely they gained a sporting advantage by recruiting such players? So surely a sporting sanction should be in order? And where's the consistency? In 2008, Luton Town received a 10-point deduction for irregularities in dealing with agents (nb from FA). There still could be some further sanctions by the FA following its "ongoing investigation".

PL points to mitigating factors: current owners Clearlake/Todd Boehly in May 2022 voluntarily self-reported potential historical breaches from the Roman Abramovich era. Club co-operated extensively and helped provide (with others) 10,000 documents for PL investigation.

PL established “that between 2011 and 2018, undisclosed payments by third parties associated with the club were made to players, unregistered agents and other third parties”. Payments related to the purchases of players including Eden Hazard, Willian, Samuel Eto’o, David Luiz, Andre Schurrle and Nemanja Matic - there is no suggestion any were aware of the illicit payments.

The detailed work of the investigators – and level of Clearlake’s co-operation – is impressive. The sanctions less so. It is a legitimate debate: should a club be punished for offences under a previous owner? Yes, most fans of other clubs would scream. It's a deterrent. And the value of those players' contribution and subsequent sales arguably still benefits the club.

PL also investigated “potential breaches of the Premier League’s Youth Development Rules, committed by a former senior employee, relating to the club’s registration of Academy players between 2019 and 2022”. Again, self-reported by the club, this time in 2025. Chelsea punished with £750,000 fine and immediate nine-month ban from registering academy players from PL and EFL clubs. #CFC

[Matt Smith @matty_smith7]

😂😂😂😂

[Matt Smith @matty_smith7]

@ToonUnderPod Never beat Bournemouth

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@ToonUnderPod 21

[Manxpie @manxpie86]

The ref!!!...