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“Jase, did you see what they just did?”
Eddie Howe is standing on the St James’ Park touchline, visibly taken aback by what he has just witnessed, looking for confirmation from Jason Tindall, his senior assistant.
It is Saturday, August 9, and Newcastle United’s final pre-season friendly has just begun. The opening gambit provided by Atletico Madrid’s Diego Simeone — a coach Howe has admired and attempted to emulate when it comes to his team’s levels of hard running and some of the darker arts of the game — has shocked Newcastle’s backroom staff.
