Another week to forget in the life of Newcastle United

Problems on the pitch, off the pitch and in the boardroom continue to mount at a club never far away from crisis

Newcastle manager Steve Bruce (PA)

“It’s a disagreement, what’s wrong with it? I like disagreements. I like people to air their views. It means they care.”

It’s hard to know whether Steve Bruce would agree with that particular Sam Allardyce assessment after another week to forget in charge of Newcastle United.

Allardyce knows the unique challenges of managing the Magpies of course, having done so himself between 2007 and 2008. But it’s unlikely he endured anything quite as difficult as that which Bruce and his beleagured side are currently limping through.