Newcastle United's team sheet will look a little different when supporters return to St James' Park in the coming weeks - and the same can be said of the stadium, too.
The summer break has given Newcastle the chance to improve the match day experience inside for supporters after the owners already made a number of changes around the stadium, including taking down the Sports Direct signs, bringing back Shearer's bar and moving Alan Shearer's statue.
The walls have since been painted in black and white colours inside the concourses, flags have been hung above the kiosks and new collages have been commissioned. These may seem like small changes, but it is a world away from how the stadium looked not so long ago in the Ashley era when a ripped photograph of Shay Given, arguably, the club's greatest ever goalkeeper, was hanging on the walls for so long.
