Gerry Francis has been offered a coaching position at Newcastle United, according to Sky Sports. But, according to The Daily Telegraph, he may reject the offer. If he takes the position, the former Tottenham Hotspur and Queens Park Rangers manager will join a club overflowing with cockneys including owner Mike Ashley, vice president Tony Jimenez, executive [. Click to continue reading...

We have the audio of Joe Kinnear's unbelievable tirade against journalists from yesterday's Newcastle United press conference. If this isn't a sign of a club in serious trouble, I don't know what is. What was Mike Ashley and Dennis Wise thinking about hiring Kinnear who obviously isn't able to handle the pressure? Click to continue reading...

Stuff to read while you buy a house on eBay for $1.75....... Somebody needs to sit Robbie Keane down and have a talk with him. (The Spoiler) Your chance to punch Dennis Wise in the face. (101 Great Goals) La Liga doesn't right schedules reel good. (La Liga Loca) "Football & The Credit Crunch". (twohundredpercent) A blog for the people, [. Click to continue reading...

In the latest episode of "I'm on Setanta Sports", new Director of Programming Fabio Capello gives Wayne Rooney a free role. And much the The Special One's dismay, Dennis Wise become a verb. Click to continue reading...

Bobby Robson, who knows as much about football management as anybody on the planet and he has spoken out and thinks Dennis Wise has to leave the Tyneside club. Sir Bobby Robson - Wise will never be accepted on Tyneside Sir Bobby Robson said today: "I think Dennis Wise will never be accepted here and he has to [. Click to continue reading...

After Terry Venables and apparently 16 other managers said "thanks, but no thanks" to Mike Ashley, one Joe Kinnear has been named as the caretaker manager in charge of the mess at Newcastle United. Younger readers might be asking: Joe who? Good question kids. Well, Kinnear performed the borderline miraculous task of keeping Wimbledon F. Click to continue reading...

Newcastle United has named Joe Kinnear as their interim manager until the end of October. Newcastle Executive Director Dennis Wise must have had his grubby hands involved in the appointment of Kinnear. The Irishman managed Wimbledon from 1992 to 1999. But while Kinnear never managed Wise at Wimbledon, there's undoubtedly a close connection between him and [. Click to continue reading...

Just when you thought it couldn't get any worse for Newcastle United, it just did. In the battle of the two bottom teams of the Premier League, Newcastle lost 2-1 at home tonight to fellow underachievers Tottenham Hotspur in the Carling Cup in front of their lowest attendance in years. The performance by Newcastle was utterly [. Click to continue reading...

Not to Wise? If Robbie Savage has the most appropriate name in sport, who has the most unfortunate? Dennis Wise? Click to continue reading...

No3: Deciding who's in charge

Some say the writing was on the wall for Kevin Keegan when Dennis Wise parked up in his role as executive director. Relative unknowns Tony Jimenez and Jeff Vetere were also handed jobs, helping to undermine the manager. When the next boss arrives, there is clearly a need for clarity at the top.

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Contrary to popular belief, Newcastle United is not a poisoned club. Nor are they jinxed with injuries. At worst, they're a poorly run club who has made one bad decision after another after another. With news that a Nigerian consortium are interested in buying Newcastle, Toon fans will be keeping their fingers crossed that current owner [. Click to continue reading...

I don't know how true this is, but there is a rumour flying about this afternoon that Dennis Wise could be joining Gus Poyet in a joint managerial role if Newcastle dump us out the Carling Cup on Wednesday night!

I'm not one to take much notice of this sort of stuff but the guy that told me also said we'd sign Bent about six months before it actually happened, that was bad new as well! Click to continue reading...

We wonder just how serious Mike Ashley really is, about selling the Newcastle United Club. Mike Ashley - is he really serious about selling? After announcing, in a long statement on Sunday night, that he intends to sell, he has gone with Dennis Wise and Tony Jimenez to the Middle East looking for a buyer. Click to continue reading...

I don't know much about selling. But I'm pretty sure that setting your price too high and then drinking cocktails instead of meeting with potential Middle Eastern buyers isn't the way to go. So it doesn't look like Mike Ashley will be selling Newcastle anytime soon. Apparently Ashley and his entourage (Dennis Wise, Derek Llambias [. Click to continue reading...

According to emerging reports, a Dubai-based consortium is on the verge of taking over the Premier League side Newcastle United after the current beleaguered owner Mike Ashley - along with his associates Dennis Wise and Tony Jiminez - are reported to have flown out to Dubai and are currently embroiled . Click to continue reading...

Yesterday in Dubai, Newcastle United owner Mike Ashley was offered $360 million for the club by Dubai investors, but called the offer an insult and snubbed Arab investors to instead partake in drinking cocktails at a local bar, according to ArabianBusiness.com. Ashley reportedly received the offer earlier in the day and was supposed to meet with [. Click to continue reading...

The Newcastle local papers are reporting this morning that Newcastle owner Mike Ashley has reportedly snubbed a meeting with potential Arab buyers. Mike Ashley - said to skip meeting with Zabeel Investments Mike Ashley is currently in Dubai, accompanied by Dennis Wise and Tony Jimenez, looking for buyers for Newcastle United. Click to continue reading...

Reason I ask is that both Newcastle United and Liverpool fans protested against their billionaire owners this weekend, with the biggest bone of contention being finances (and, to be fair, Dennis Wise). Both sets of fans want their club to be challenging Chelsea and Manchester United, and expected their billionaire owners to spend accordingly. Click to continue reading...

If he buys it will be under the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation to improve the fans health in the toxic environs of St James Park. An environmental impact statement on how Mike Ashley and Dennis Wise are affecting the physical and mental well of the locals is being prepared. Bill and Melinda will use that to talk down the price.

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To many cooks What do David Pleat, Darren Barnard and Colin Lippiatt have in common? For fear of legal recriminations Ill tell you; while ones done it at Tottenham, the other two have made a living from it in Non League Football and all with varying success.Their roles? Director of Football. Its a position thats been made infamous over the past couple of weeks by resignations at both Newcastle and West Ham, so is it a job really suited to the game at the top of the pyramid, let alone at grassroots level? Click to continue reading...

Now it is he won't.

If he was to takeover, the fairy tale ending would have been Keegan coming back to Newcastle, Dennis Wise being fired, and a check for 100m pounds to be used by Keegan as he desired on player transfers.

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Does this scenario even look remotely plausible? Kevin Keegan agreeing to becoming a club's manager on the condition that he have no control in player transfers?

Which self respecting manager would agree to that especially one who gave Newcastle some of their best years? Now the club insists that the final authority on that matter lay with Dennis Wise, the director of football.

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Zico, the Brazilian legend seems to be interested in the manager job at Newcastle United, and may be the new front-runner. Zico - would love the Newcastle job The former Fenerbahce and Japan coach has already said he would be very interested in replacing Kevin Keegan at St James' Park. But it seems like Dennis Wise will retain [. Click to continue reading...

What does the future hold? These are interesting times to be a football fan. Recent events at Manchester City, Newcastle and West Ham have led many people to look at the game in a new light. Talk is flying around on the chat rooms of a ‘fans rebellion', the ‘death of football' and so on. Is it real or is it bollocks? Click to continue reading...

Gus Poyet looks to be the favorite to be offered the chance to fill the Newcastle manager job left by Kevin Keegan's shock departure from Newcastle. Gus Poyet - favorite to take over at Newcastle But the choice of Poyet, who is a big friend of Dennis Wise, and was the assistant manager under Wise at Leeds [. Click to continue reading...

Few clubs have supporters quite as adept at knowing who they want to be their next manager as Newcastle United. Then again, few clubs give their supporters quite as much practice as Newcastle United. The hugely unpopular departure of Kevin Keegan has left Mike Ashley in a sticky situation where he needs to make an [. Click to continue reading...

Newcastle United'da Kevin Keegan, futbol direktörü Dennis Wise ve başkan Tony Jimenez'in gelecek / gidecek tüm futbolculara karışmaları sonrası, "ne haliniz varsa görün" diyerek çekti gitti. Ardından, boşalan pozisyon için ismi geçen bir başka efsane Alan Sherear da aynı nedenle "hadi len" dedi siyahbeyazlılara. Click to continue reading...

Here is a link to an article in the London Times, which gives much more insight into the situation at Newcastle United and a good explanation of why Kevin Keegan quit. Personally, I think its a sad state of affairs when the prevailing thought at a club like Newcastle United is that Dennis Wise knows more about football then Kevin Keegan. Click to continue reading...

Another Premiership manager bit the dust today as Kevin Keegan joined Alan Curbishley on the unemployment line.

The "Geordie Messiah" was supposed to turn Newcastle's fortunes around and make them a top-four contender, if you believe most of the Toon Army, but didn't even last a full season's worth of games after returning to the club midway through the '07-'08 campaign. Click to continue reading...

It started on Tuesday. Then for two nights we were left wondering. All we were told was that he hadn't been fired, which wasn't actually very useful information. Finally today it's been confirmed. Kevin Keegan has resigned from Newcastle United.. Like most people, I pretty much blame Mike Ashley for this. Click to continue reading...

Literally in the last few minutes, the BBC are reporting that Keegan has resigned due to the football structure of Newcastle United. He feels that his position has been completely undermined by Dennis Wise and Tony Jiminez. A hastily released statement by Keegan pointedly clarifies that his position has become untenable due to pressure put on [. Click to continue reading...

It's eviction night in the Newcastle United Big Brother House.

Up for eviction are Kevin Keegan, Dennis Wise and Mike Ashley.

Here is what each of them have to say about why one of the others should go:

Kevin Keegan: Wise has to go. Once described as a man who could start a fight in an empty house, he played dirty when he was a footballer and he plays dirty now. Click to continue reading...

If what's going on with the Newcastle meetings over the last couple of days is a fight for control of transfer and players, between Kevin Keegan and Dennis Wise, then this should have been solved in a few minutes and Wise should have lost. Kevin Keegan - should and must have all control of players But we [. Click to continue reading...

If Mike Ashley wants to do the right thing and avoid being run out of Newcastle, he needs to sack Dennis Wise and get on his knees to convince Kevin Keegan to stay at Newcastle United. King Kev is hardly a master tactician but what he does have is an immense passion for the Tyneside club [...] Click to continue reading...

Gus Poyet was cut from 20/1 to 6/4 to become the next Newcastle United manager yesterday on the back of the rumours concerning Kevin Keegan having left the club.

The consensus today is that Keegan hasn't gone anywhere yet but it doesn't look like he'll be sticking around for long.

We had this a while back when Gus was linked with Manchester Utd when they lost their assistant Carlos Queiroz to the Portuguese national side. Click to continue reading...