Eddie Howe broke a Premier League record last week. Granted, it wasn’t a big one. It’s not even really a record as such.
But in being named Premier League Manager of the Month for February, the Newcastle United boss became the youngest manager to win the award on four separate occasions, having previously picked it up three times while manager of Bournemouth. At the age of 44 years 102 days, he surpassed the record of another ex-Magpies manager, Kevin Keegan.
Another record, nouveau riche Newcastle’s three-month, nine-match unbeaten Premier League one, was duly lost at Chelsea on Sunday. Kai Havertz scored a sublime late winner - the kind of goal Gianfranco Zola would have been proud of - to hand the World and European champions victory in what had been dubbed English football’s ‘Game of Shame’ and the 'Despots Derby'.
