BBC Radio 5 Live: “You can’t always blame Mike Ashley. I know fans will say ‘He (Rafa Benitez) hasn’t been backed in the window’ but…”

Alex Bruce full of praise…”Newcastle fans love their manager, got behind the team, it just shows what they [fans of a club] can do.”

The point isn’t whether Warnock should or shouldn’t definitely get a retrospective ban but rather the fact that because TV pundits decide it isn’t worthy of mention then it isn’t even up for discussion.