Tommy Martin: Newcastle's first big signing - useful local idiots

The delirium on Tyneside since the club’s takeover, which reached crescendo ahead of Sunday’s game against Tottenham, has been as much down to the departure of the hated Mike Ashley as the identity of the wealthy new owners
Tommy Martin: Newcastle's first big signing - useful local idiots

The delirium on Tyneside since the club’s takeover, which reached crescendo ahead of Sunday’s game against Tottenham, has been as much down to the departure of the hated Mike Ashley as the identity of the wealthy new owners

There was no mistaking the concern on the faces of Newcastle fans as one of their fellow supporters lay unconscious amid the St James’s Park throng last Sunday.

Players from both sides, match officials and medical personnel bore the grave expressions of those aware a human life hung in the balance.

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