Tommy Martin: You would love to be happy for Newcastle United

You know there is a group called NUFC Fans Against Sportswashing, who staged a protest before the club’s recent home game with Chelsea. They chose the Chelsea game because the last time Newcastle played Chelsea, the previous March, was the day after the Saudis executed 81 men, the biggest mass execution in decades.

HAPPY, NEWCASTLE FANS? Newcastle United CEO Yasir Al-Rumayyan (left) with co-owner Amanda Staveley and her husband Mehrdad Ghodoussi (right) at St. James' Park.

You would love to be happy for Newcastle United.

Did you see St. James’s Park before the League Cup win over Leicester City? Thousands of flags and scarves and a din that would have been picked up by the North Sea fishing fleet. A noise born of out of pure love, decades of frustration and the emotional release of a thrilling new era.