Why isn’t more done to bring journalists to task when they fabricate stories rather than basing them on any element of fact?

Well, selecting a Newcastle street at random, say, Clayton Street, have a walk down there councillors. Every other shop is a pay day loan company of some description, although maybe on principle you don’t accept their rents and business rates from these bastions of financial respectability?

“We felt that the business model the company operates was not one with which we were comfortable to support as our main partner. In addition, we take great pride in our standing as a community focused football club and believe this partnership would not have been welcomed by the majority of our supporters.”

So today we are asking you about the club’s new sponsor. The subject prompting much debate when it was revealed that the payday loans company was going to be both shirt and stadium sponsor. How do the fans really feel about the deal now the dust has settled?

You might have heard somewhere, if you really looked hard, that Newcastle had agreed a sponsorship deal with Wonga.

We’re being sold down the river and we’re all blind to it because we love the club too much.

Today it was revealed that Manchester United’s new shirt deal with Chevrolet (General Motors) is worth £30m a year but surprising for some, Newcastle also feature in the World’s top ten.

The latest figures show Newcastle only behind the likes of Manchester City, Manchester United and Liverpool on £20m per year, plus Chelsea who bring in £13.8m.