NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE, England -- Money 6, Mismanagement 1. There has been a sense for some time that Newcastle United and Tottenham Hotspur have been on differing trajectories, but few would have imagined the Champions League baton would have been passed quite as emphatically as at St James' Park on Sunday.
Spurs' complete capitulation on Tyneside is the tangible manifestation of a club losing all sense of direction and, very probably, conceding their Premier League top-four place to a team possessing the purpose and cohesion they lack.