Delayed arrival in Milan ‘no big deal’, insists Newcastle boss Eddie Howe

Eddie Howe will manage in the Champions League for the first time on Tuesday. Pic: Steven Paston/PA

Eddie Howe has insisted the weather which delayed Newcastle’s arrival in Italy will not derail their Champions League adventure.

The club’s latest European mission hardly got off to the most auspicious of starts when, having been given special dispensation to train on Tyneside on Monday morning rather than at the San Siro later in the day, they remained on the ground for more than two hours.