UEFA have confirmed Rangers and Newcastle United can’t both play in Europe, in the same season, unless Mike Ashley changes his position at one of the clubs.
Is the Alan Pardew contract now looking well deserved? On the Newcastle United rollercoaster, Rhys Melhuish wonders if we are scaling the heights again.
How much midweek matches affect the following weekend is open to doubt anyway, it didn’t appear to affect Newcastle against Chelsea when many of the players had played for 120 minutes against Manchester City less than 72 hours beforehand.