Do we really see Roy as a solution?

TURNS out Newcastle aren’t the biggest joke in English football after all.

With our own issues of ownership seemingly solved — and boy does that ‘seemingly’ scream out at you today — it was expected to be one of the best trips of the season.

Beer? Extra thick coat? Lyric sheet full of hilarious epithets to mock the clueless Geordie hordes? All boxes ticked. Oops. Forgot ‘team with shred of mettle’. You can never remember everything, can you? Oh for the days when they’d sacked Kenny, installed Sexy Ruud in his place and we played them off the park, Owen rubbing his hands in mischievous glee. The King didn’t get his name sung that much when he brought title after title to Anfield.