‘We have these massive mansions, yet up the road people are queueing for food’

Newcastle United’s Isaac Hayden visited the NUFC fans food bank and clubs across the country are helping out as they realise the harsh reality that working families cannot make ends meet

Only seven miles separate Newcastle’s West End Food bank in Benwell and the north-east footballers’ mecca of Darras Hall but they represent parallel universes.

“It’s crazy,” reflected Isaac Hayden, a Newcastle United midfielder and occasional volunteer at an initiative now widely known as the NUFC fans food bank. “You think: ‘How is it we’ve got these massive mansions, yet a few miles up the road people are queueing for food?’”

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