Newcastle United doing exactly what you expect them to do isn't a new feeling. It used to be that Newcastle United would do exactly what you expected them to do - and more often than not that was to mess things up.
On the pitch, they would lose when it was easier to win, and off-the-pitch decisions in the boardroom would be detrimental to the very purpose of a competitive football club. But not this Newcastle United. Not Eddie Howe's Black and White Army.
That was the Newcastle United of old - when dread and fear were the overwhelming feelings on match days, or at best a feeling of routine rose to the surface as you take your seat. But not now. Not this Newcastle United.
