The difference between Eddie Howe’s Newcastle United and Steve Bruce’s can be described as many things but the old cliché chalk and cheese seems to work perfectly. The Magpies now look very good to confirm their Premier League status at a canter after being doomed for the drop after 15 games.
In 10 or 20 years when looking back at the reign of PIF as the club’s owners, the greatest signing that they have ever made could well be Howe despite plenty of claims he wouldn’t be good enough. He has galvanised largely the same group of players who were sleepwalking into relegation.
Newcastle are now seven points clear of the bottom three after being one of the occupants of those positions for so much of this season. Speaking on BBC 5 Live’s Football Daily podcast, Nigel Reo-Coker was full of praise for the work Howe has done on Tyneside.
