It's not my natural inclination to wax lyrical about managers given they’re often presidents of their own fan club, but you have to give as much credit as you can for the job Eddie Howe is doing at Newcastle.
My initial reaction was that it wasn’t an obvious fit. He was Newcastle’s second choice behind Unai Emery and had walked away from the Celtic job because at the time I perceived him not to have the stomach for it. I didn’t have high expectations of him and to put it bluntly, didn’t think he had the chops to be Newcastle manager.