Articles by John Beresford

Bez makes comback! - 10/08/2006 John pulls on his boots to play in a Charity game at Farsley Celtic (near Leeds) on Sunday 20th August - why not go along and show some support? [More]

Press article: Luque in the mirror - 31/05/2006 Bez interviewed by Lee Ryder of the Newcastle Chronicle about the future of Albert Luque's career. [More]

Press article: I'm backing Shearer to sign off in style - 09/03/2006 Lee Ryder interviews Bez as Big Al faces the trip to Old Trafford for the last time in his career. [More]

The Bobby Moore Fund - 25/10/2005 Bez looks forward to helping two worthy causes as he flies off to Brazil to renovate a school and builda football pitch. [More]

Feeling the heat - 23/08/2004 With another season starting with disappointing results, Bez hopes that an early goal on Wednesday night will lead to the first three points of the season. [More]

Kluivert - A player and maybe a bit of a gamble - 23/07/2004 Bez looks at the Kluivert signing and worries not about the players temperament or footballing ability - but the impact of having four top strikers fighting for two places. [More]

Press article: Star Bez's still got it - 11/07/2004 A Newcastle Sunday Sun report on Bez's success on his recent trip to the Far East. [More]

England can go all the way - 09/06/2004 Just before Bez jumps on a plane bound for Singapore, we get his thougths on England's chances. [More]

Press article: Break the bank - 01/06/2004 Miles Starforth of the Newcastle Evening Chronicle interviews Bez about ex-Southampton team mate - James Beattie [More]

Interview: A review of the season - 24/05/2004 Bez gives his end of term report on Newcastle's season... [More]

What a relief - 17/05/2004 With away points hard to come by, Bez looks at Newcastle's away form and hopes that attitudes will change for next season. [More]

It's not a disaster...yet! - 10/05/2004 Bez's thoughts after yesterdays disappointing draw with Wolves. [More]

A replacement for Shearer? - 28/04/2004 Bez looks at a possible replacement for Shearer, the battle for fourth spot, and refutes suggestions that Newcastle's training methods are responsible for the present injury crisis. [More]

Still some work to do - 14/04/2004 Bez looks at the Arsenal game and states that Newcastle are still some way from Arsenal's class. [More]

Press article: LEISH LEGENDS TARGET ENGLISH - 07/04/2004 Scotland's Daily Record reports on an 11 a side Masters game between the Auld Enemy and featuring, amongst others - Bez. [More]

It'll go the wire - 05/04/2004 Bez looks at the battle for the final Champions League spot and states that nothing will be decided until the final game of the season. [More]

Wal hangs up his boots - 31/03/2004 Bez's wishes his ex-colleague well and comments that football hasn't seen the last of Warren Barton. [More]

Well, we're through - 26/03/2004 Bez looks back on last night's 3-0 away win and warns that Newcastle must improve if they're to progress into the UEFA semi's. [More]

The big game - 19/03/2004 Bez offers his thoughts on tomorrows Premiership clash between Newcastle and Charlton. [More]

Own goals? - 01/03/2004 With Lua Lua scoring an 89th minute equaliser and the Bowyer ban not yet started, Bez admits that mistakes have been made, but asks that the fans don't lose perspective. [More]

An England International – twice!! - 25/02/2004 Bez gets the cll to play for England in both the Masters '6 a side' tournament, and a Masters '11 a side' game at Dunfermline. [More]

The good, the bad, and the ugly - 12/02/2004 Bez looks at last night's game at Blackburn - no prizes for guessing that Lucas Neill's challenge on Craig Bellamy is classed as 'the ugly'!!! [More]

Birmingham vs Newcastle - 31/01/2004 Birmingham will be a tough game. They've had a very good season so far and although they suffered a bit of blip lately, but they will be looking to get back on winning tracks. [More]

Clarkie's back - 14/01/2004 After a great team performance at Old Tafford, Bez warns that Fulham are more than capable of causing Newcatsle difficulties. With his ex-teamate returning home for the first time, Bez looks forward to Lee Clark's St. James reception. [More]

Newcastle's transfer window - 09/01/2004 With the transfer window getting off to a slow start, Bez looks at the situation at Newcastle and wonders why Solano seems to be the most likely to move on. [More]

A crucial three weeks - 12/12/2003 With the holiday period seeing games come thick and fast, Bez compares the respective challenges faced by Newcastle and Liverpool and states that Newcastle will be looking to increase the pressure on their scouse rivals. [More]

Newcastle - too strong for Liverpool - 05/12/2003 With the two teams most likely to be fighting for the 4th spot in the Premiership, Bez backs his former club to overcome the Scousers tomorrow. [More]

Keep focused - 26/11/2003 Bez looks at Thursday's UEFA tie with Basel and Kevin Keegan's unsuccessful return to St. James Park. [More]

England – let’s move forward - 16/11/2003 With relations between the FA and it's players taking another knock, Bez asks that both parties work together to improve communication. [More]

Pele's got my autograph!? - 28/10/2003 Bez give us his thoughts on meeting up with World Football legend Pele, not that he rates the Brazilian as the best ever player... [More]

The England players were naïve in threatening to strike - 16/10/2003 Bez looks back on another week in football where headlines concerned off-pitch, rather than on-pitch events. [More]

What a difference a result can make! - 26/09/2003 After the massive boost to confidence on Wednesday night, Bez looks forward to this evenings game with top of the table Arsenal. Which Arsenal will turn up? Which Newcastle will turn up? [More]

It's still not happening! - 21/09/2003 After Bez took in Saturday's home game against Bolton, he looks at the media criticism of the team and attempts to identify why the team just isn't clicking into place. [More]

We must be jinxed - 08/09/2003 After Newcastle were installed as favourites in yesterday's Master's Tournament, an exit to Rangers in the semi's once again saw the side underperform. [More]

A terrible result - 28/08/2003 Last night’s result will hold deep ramifications for Newcastle United. The whole club had been set up for Champions League football and I’ll guarantee there’s a great deal of introspective thoughts and soul searching going on at St. James. [More]

It’s all about winning - 13/08/2003 I’ve been in the Tyne Tees studios tonight, with one eye on the Newcastle game and the other on the Sunderland match against Mansfield – which is the feature game in tonight’s show. The easy conclusion to reach is that tonight’s respective performances were to be judged not on the quality of football, but on the results. [More]

From Singapore to Gateshead - 09/05/2003 I’ve just flown home from Singapore and once again I had a great time. Not sure what all the hassle about SARS is, saw a few people at the airport wearing the surgical masks – so I just couldn’t help myself from coughing and spluttering all over them. [More]

Work to be done - 30/04/2003 It was a great win – if not a great performance against Sunderland, but although it’s improved our chances of Champions League qualification, there’s still work to be done! Birmingham will provide tough opposition on Saturday. [More]

Sunderland derby memories - 24/04/2003 As Bez is away working for ESPN in Singapore, we thought we'd bring you a number of his recollections about past derbies and the stories both on and off the pitch... [More]

Reality check - 15/04/2003 Newcastle are without doubt a great team, they’re entertaining, have some tremendous players, and have youth on their side. However, on Saturday reality dawned and I realised just how far we are from a genuine title challenge. [More]

The best squad...Keegan's or Robson's? - 14/03/2003 I heard that Freddy Shepherd reckons that the current team would beat the Keegan team. My thoughts? Well, put it this way, if I wasn’t playing I’d queue overnight to get a ticket!! To be honest, when you look at the squads, I’d agree with the Chairman. [More]

Inter action - 10/03/2003 It’s do or die in tomorrow’s Champions league clash at the San Siro, and although were’ve been in this ‘must win’ situation before, a repeat of the away win in Feyenoord will be a much tougher proposition. [More]

Great for Gazza, great for the toon! - 24/02/2003 I’m really made up for Gazza, there’s been so much written about him – most of negative, and I bet a lot of those responsible were very sceptical of his latest contract in China. His new club's result was mirrored by Newcastle's, so the Geordie boy will definitely be happy! [More]

A big night at Bayer - 18/02/2003 Bez takes a look at tonights game in Germany and hopes that Shola can give a repeat performance of his Barcelona game. As Arsenal danced on the Old Trafford turf last weekend, he also wonders how Man Utd will react? [More]

I'm delighted to welcome Gavin Peacock - 13/02/2003 I was in the Press Box at the Stadium of Light recently and bumped into Gavin Peacock. After leaving Newcastle to go to Chelsea, he returned to QPR and played a few games for Charlton. Now he’s also working in the media for the BBC, Capital Radio and, like me, ESPN in Singapore. [More]

Good times - 03/02/2003 So the signing did go through, even though most of us had thought Robbie Fowler’s move to City would mean the deal was dead. It just goes to show the awful situation Leeds have got themselves in, and how Freddie Shepherd’s perseverance has paid off. [More]

A Window of Opportunity? - 29/12/2002 If there’s a weakness in the Newcastle line up, then I don’t think they’d be many people who would disagree that a strong, experienced, and top quality defender would plug the gap. [More]

Shearer v Beattie - 16/12/2002 The Southampton v Newcastle game thre two great strikers together. Having played with both Al and Beats, it's been interesting to hear how they've been compared. [More]

£50 in my pocket - thank's Bally! - 04/12/2002 I must say that I enjoyed last night, not sure Kevin Ball can say the same! As some of you might have seen, Tyne Tees filmed us arriving for the ‘Tyne Tees Match’ last night, and Bally offered me a £50 bet that Sunderland would turn over my home town team. [More]

A knight in shining armour - 01/12/2002 Last week Bobby Robson visited Buckingham Palace where he received his knighthood. I know that Prince Charles didn’t know who he was, but to thousands of Geordies the world over, he’s certainly their knight in shining armour. [More]

Echoes of the Past - 29/11/2002 The present criticism of the defence takes me back to the Keegan days, the day the midfield protects the defence is the day the criticism will stop. It's a team game and a midfield has a defensive role to play in addition to that of attack. [More]

INTER the big time - 25/11/2002 Wednesday night will see the club enter a new phase in the Champions League and a new phase in the history of the club. This is the big time, and it’s where Newcastle United belong. [More]

Two clubs close to my heart - 15/11/2002 I’ll be back in the UK on Thursday and unfortunately I’ll be missing the Newcastle Southampton game. Whilst everyone is aware how close I am to everyone at Newcastle – the club, the fans, and the city in general, I also had a great time down in Southampton. [More]

Arsenal anguish - 10/11/2002 During my Newcastle career Arsenal weren’t quite the side that they today, however that didn’t stop us having a number of tough battles with the North Londoner’s. It fair to say that they caused us on or two problems, as the following tales will explain... [More]

Everton - sticky times against the Toffees - 05/11/2002 With Michael Chopra and Wayne Rooney providing the headlines in the build up to the Worthington Cup, Bez looks back at previous Newcastle v Everton fixtures. [More]

Middlesbrough memoirs - 31/10/2002 Bez is presently providing commentary and ‘pundit’ opinion for ESPN in Singapore. With Newcastle facing Boro on Monday, we’ve dusted off a few of his recollections from past Boro fixtures… [More]

Barnsley – this isn’t a gimmick! - 28/10/2002 I can confirm that David Hirst and I would be very interested in taking up the vacant position at Barnsley. I genuinely believe that we’d do a very good job at Oakwell, and we’re willing to put in our time and effort for no salary. [More]

F.A. Ambassador's trip to China - 27/10/2002 There's no China crisis, infact I'd say that in a few year's time we'll be lloking a world force in the game. [More]

Bez's Charlton recollections - 26/10/2002 As Bez is away in China at the moment, we’ll be updating you on his news on Monday or Tuesday. In the meantime we’ve dug out a few stories about his Newcastle v Charlton experiences. [More]

What a game! - 21/10/2002 The 5-2 scoreline suggests this was an incident packed game, but really, it only tells half the story. The main talking point is obviously Dabi’s sending off…it changed the whole game [More]

England – we should be doing better - 17/10/2002 I watched last night’s game and was very disappointed. I seems a number of players just turn up to play their own game, a team of individuals instead of an individual team. [More]

Racism - will it ever go away? - 15/10/2002 What UEFA do about it I don’t know, but perhaps the wholesale banning of fans is the wrong approach – what about decent fans, and the effect on football? We’d be harming the game and letting the idiots beat us. [More]

Victims of their own success? - 14/10/2002 I’m sorry to see Peter Reid go, he’s a good bloke and he’s been good for football. He achieved an awful lot for Sunderland, yet paradoxically I feel that his achievements were ultimately the making of his and Sunderland’s downfall. [More]

Back to Basics - 04/10/2002 It’s back to St. James and back to the task of picking up three points in the Premiership. [More]

Unlucky, but were we ever going to beat them? - 02/10/2002 Juventus away was always going to be the most difficult of the Champions League fixtures, but we put up a good show and were slightly unlucky [More]

Feyenoord - a class act - 26/09/2002 The scoreline was disappointing, the performance was good – better than last Saturday’s game against Sunderland. But this is Champions League football and the quality of Feyenoord was to be expected. [More]

So much more than three points! - 23/09/2002 The derby win was worth so much more than three points and I hope that we can really move forward after this result. [More]

Keep it tight - 19/09/2002 Looking back at the 1997 Kiev game, it'll be very important for the midfield to protect the defence and keep it very tight for the first 20 minutes. [More]

The Pressure is on - 12/09/2002 After last night's 2-0 defeat by Leeds, people should be loking at the quality of Newcastle's football - not the league position [More]

(Another) Classic six-pointer - 11/09/2002 The big games keep on coming, but the Leeds game is bigger than most! [More]

Dodgy Knee's and Dodgy Books - 05/09/2002 I'm worried about my knee, but I don't want to miss out on the Master's Finals. [More]

Sub Standard - 04/09/2002 Not quite another 4-3 result, but a late Alan Shearer equaliser topped a great comeback [More]

Keane for Fergie to get a grip - 01/09/2002 Alex Ferguson continually defend his captain - at least in public. It's time for a change of policy if Roy's to remain in football... [More]

Game on... - 15/08/2002 Bez introduces his 2002/03 Playerboss team and throws down the gaunlet to any fans who fancy their chances! [More]

Press article: Bez bites back - 13/08/2002 Bez writing for NUFC.com on David Ginola's 'reflections' on his move to Newcastle [More]

Mad Fer it! - 08/08/2002 The last time Barcelona were in town, so were Oasis. Bez tells us how he 'sneaked' into the Telewest and managed to upset Stuart Pearce! [More]

Life in the old dog yet! - 29/07/2002 Bez discusses his fitness and plans for the new season. [More]

The Masters - 06/07/2002 Last year I missed the Masters with a calf problem, so this year I'm really looking forward to tomorrow's tournament [More]

Robbie who? There's only one Ethan Elliott!! - 07/05/2002 Bez lets us know what's been happening over the last few weeks and his plans for the World Cup. [More]

Interview: Now it's gonna be really tough! - 26/02/2002 Bez talks about the injury to Bellamy. [More]

Derby Joy!! - 25/02/2002 Bez's reaction to the 1-0 victory aginst Sunderland. [More]

Press article: I'm backing the Magpies to win Light show - 23/02/2002 Bez's weekly column in 'The Pink'. [More]

Bez in support of Local School - 23/01/2002 Bez supporting Chruchill Community College in their bid to acheive 'Sports College' status. [More]

Press article: Who's got the bottle? - 00/00/0000 Bez looks at the forthcoming derby game at St.James and asks the question... [More]