Sunday’s win over Chelsea has put Newcastle United in the driving seat in the race to secure Champions League football for next season.
The Total Sport team have spoken to sports journalist Mark Douglas about the job Eddie Howe has done and the importance of a top five finish.
“After last season being quite difficult, it felt very much nine months ago like the momentum was in danger of being lost, but they’ve regained it,” Douglas told the Total Sport Podcast.
“They’ve got through the difficult second album if you will, every club has it. Now we are on to a body of work and Eddie Howe has established a supergroup.
“Jason Tindall is the really good backing singer who some people think could be the lead [singer] but Howe is the studious frontman. They are now in to a body of work where you realise these guys are serious, serious people.
“Not many clubs have a manager that you would implicitly trust to do the right thing. You look in to this summer and think they will try and build and to do that with the Champions League behind you means the sky is the limit.
“If it’s another platinum record this season, you start to think, everything these guys touch turns to gold.”
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