The question was clever and testing but Jack Ross’s answer proved unequivocal. “Do you love football or are you actually in love with it?” asked a fellow…
Steve McClaren was attending a funeral and his phone had remained switched off for some time. When Newcastle United’s then manager turned the device back on, a…
Salomón Rondón sought expert counsel from a South American farmer before committing himself to leaving West Bromwich Albion for a season on loan at Newcastle…
Maybe, just maybe, Loris Karius needs to stop seeing himself as an artist and start thinking like a scientist? Perhaps his faith in the powers of instinct…
Jordan Pickford is not a man for false modesty and most certainly does not do self-deprecation. If his apparently supreme confidence seems slightly at odds…
DeAndre Yedlin is centre stage in a primary school gymnasium, helping to teach a group of suddenly rather self‑conscious children the art of trapping,…
Jonjo Shelvey began the season by blowing a fuse but could yet end it by switching on the lights for England in Russia this summer. When Newcastle’s playmaker…
When Chris Coleman walks in, one question invariably seems to echo around the room. “Why?” the former Wales manager is asked. “Why Sunderland?” The moment at a…
