No end to sobs on the Tyne as Newcastle yearn for a saviour | David Conn

Amanda Staveley’s failed bid to take over the club from Mike Ashley’s dispiriting regime has left supporters in despair

The aching resentment many Newcastle United supporters feel for the dispiriting culture under the club’s owner, Mike Ashley, was articulated in the powerful banner at the home match against Burnley on transfer deadline night.

Under the oppressively huge logo of Ashley’s cut-price retail business Sports Direct slapped on the Gallowgate End roof, it read: “Don’t ever give up on your club. Keep supporting it; it’s your club and trust me, one day you will get your club back, and it will be everything you wanted it to be. Newcastle United is bigger than anyone. It hurts I know but just keep going. He is only one man. We are a city, a whole population. Trust me.”

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