NUFC.com

NUFC.com is a popular fan site for English football club Newcastle United. 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 have mistakenly cited Nufc.com as "The Official Newcastle United Site". The website has also been mentioned by Gazette.net in a story about Oguchi Onyewu.

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. Beresford was asked before certain matches to give his thoughts on the opposition and these were...
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