Morning. We’re back after a festive break with a check in on Tino and Co.

If you need a quick reminder, Newcastle are in the midst of a South American revolution with Julio Geordio leading the line, which in 3 seasons has not amounted to a whole lot to be honest.

Anyway, always time for that to change

We’ve convinced Newcastle fan, and blog host, Dave to squeeze in one more installment of our South American Tyneside adventure before matters turn to the World Cup and 25th Anniversary celebrations – Thank you Dave.

To recap where we are at, we’re at the end of Season 3. Last season we won the FA Cup and this season we’re pushing for a Champions League place, if not a tilt at the title, and glory in the Cup Winners Cup.

October is disappearing at an alarming speed. Here’s Matt trying to warm your hearts with some South American tales…from the North East of England…

Hello, what a time we’re having on Tyneside. We’re all South American here, but also all over the shop form wise. On paper, I have great defenders and a top goalie, but we keep conceding and our strikers can be somewhat toothless at times.

We’re also heading into the winter months, and we keep seem to be getting the flu….

Anyway, maybe a more moderate climate in Lithuania will help things?

Here’s Matt this fine Thursday…

Howay and welcome back to Latin Newcastle, where it’s always samba time.

Well, that’s not strictly true, as we’ve had our ups and downs over the past two seasons, but we ended last season as FA Cup Winners, so as we prepare for season 3, will it me a new dawn or more fog on the Tyne?

Maradona retired in the close season, and I’ve been begging Freddy for some more firepower:

Happy Thursday! Here’s Matt…

My second season in charge of an all South American Toon Army is not going well.

Brann knocked us out of the Uefa Cup and we whimpered out of the League Cup against Wolves. Our league form is crap. The only bright spark is our FA Cup run. Probably the only thing keeping me in a job right now.

Can Maradona, Romario and Solano end this second season on a high or will we be going Loco

First bit of business, get rid of some deadwood. Grande has not been so Grande for us. Bye Ariana.

Welcome back to my Latin love letter to Newcastle. Last time out season 2 started ok but we are hanging on in Europe and our star man, Julio Geordie picked up an injury to keep him on the sidelines for 3 months.

The table looks like this

Merry Thursday. Here’s Matt with some Latino Heat…

Season 1 was a bit of a limp ending for our Latin lovers in part 3. Failure in the Champions League semi-finals and finishing 3rd and having to settle for the Uefa Cup was not on Freddy Shepherds plans when he started his South American revolution. We also missed the opportunity to sign Tino Asprilla on a free. Still, with some money in the coffers, I can go looking for better players….

FFS

In the fictional Champ Man world of 1997, many things can happen. Dean Smith can be turning Japanese, Niall Warnock can be on a managerial odyssey or Newcastle can become a team of South American stars.

I use the term stars loosely, as my La-Toon team have crashed out of both domestic cups and are adrift in the league, sucking in Man Utd’s vapour trails. They are, however, still in European contention, but more of that later.

The early season buzz of a team containing Jose Chilavert, Rene Higuita, Carlos Valderama and Diego Maradona is starting to wane a little as optimism seems to have turned into frustation.

Happy Thursday! Here’s Matt with episode 2 of his new series where Newcastle’s squad is exclusively South American…

Hello and welcome back to La-Toon America (not sure that will catch on). Anyway, incase you missed part one last week, Freddy Shepherd has engineered a South American revolution on Tyneside, spearheaded by young Colombian maestro, Julio Geordio.

We’ve patched together a squad to entertain the Toon Army, but all things being equal, we’re already eating Man Utd’s dust….

We are however in the Champions League group stages and up next is a trip to Turin, but our crew of Latin Lovers with a bench full of greys succumb to a Uruguyan strike from Fonseca.

In 1997, Sir John Hall passed Newcastle United chairmanship to Freddy Shepard. Freddy, keen to make his mark on the club, had watched over the years how Newcastle had been a trailblazer for South American footballers, from George and Ted Robledo,  Marindinha, Tino Asprilla, south American stars have lit up St James Park.

Freddy has released all the first team squad, lobbied government to abolish work permits for players from South American and after watching re-runs of the Henry Enfield Show, signed me a young Colombian Striker called Julio Geordio.