Newcastle finish memorable season
After finishing last season during Monday's session, i am able to look back on what was a very successful season.
- Finished Runners up in Premiership
- Won The FA Cup
- Last 16 of Champions League
- Quarter Finals of League Cup
The supporters and board were obviously delighted with this and with the prospect of summer signings and the devlopment of some hot prospects Newcastle looked on course to achieve great things.
The season itself was a major success considering the competition in the premiership. But unfortunately Ali's Liverpool were just to good this year and won the Premiership comfortably despite The Toon's late winning streak of 11 straight wins. Hopefully next year will be closer than the 14pts this year.
With Victory over Everton in Cardiff in our last match we lifted the FA Cup for the first time since 1955 and brought me my first trophy with Newcastle. It will hopefully be the first of many.
2004/2005 Season
Well before we had time to reflect on the 2003/2004 season the new one was upon us. With our performances last year we were able to make a yearly profit of 14m and take the bank balance up to a cool 50m. Expectations of a large transfer kitty were high and several bids prepared.
That is until we got to the 1st July 2004 and saw the Newcastle Board had decided to allocate us 4m to spend this season. :o

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The sale's of Lampard and Terry bolstered that and also lowered the wage bill and the transfers of Lamey, Pablo NinoOliseh and Zonneveld were completed. But a great disappointment at the board.
With only enough time to play one game, we ended the session with the Charity shield against Ali's mighty Liverpool.
Another trophy was at stake here and despite both sides missing some key players through injuries and lack of fitness i was pleased to claim a convincing 2-0 victory over the current champions and was encouraged by some of the new signings. Hopefully this form will be continued into the league where we hope to consolidate a top 3 finish and also into the champions league where we aim to make a big impression this year.
Our first season in this game has now finished and i would like to say that cmelc is establishing itself as one of the major clans around. The attendance of all clan members is remarkable given how many members we have and with Ali's hosting and Lee's organisation it has been a pleasure playing in the clan. Hopefully we will continue this for many seasons to come