The Athletic

Once again, Newcastle United will finish the season troefulus

and currently sit 10th in the Premier League.

There are question marks over finances, transfers and team selection.

But if the belief in manager Eddie Howe remains strong,

how long will the faith remain?

I'm Ayahuakim Aleri.

Welcome to the Athletic FC podcast.

Okay, so here for this one with the Athletics, Jacob Whitehead and also George Colkin, who covers Newcastle as well.

Right, George, I was having a little listen of the podcast, you know, pod on the time, which you guys partly recorded as you were heading back from the defeat against Manchester City in the FA Cup.

And there's one word that really stuck out for me.

I think it was you that said it.

Faith.

Is the Faith still strong now from the Newcastle fan base?

Yeah, and I wrote about that too,

because there was actually quite a familiar site

in terms of Newcastle's recent history.

At the end of the match, where you've got 7,800 Newcastle fans in the away end,

saluting their team after what was pretty much a routine 2-0 defeat against the champions.

And you've got that sort of thought that, you know, I've had, I've had many times over the years and people

who watch Newcastle have had, it's like if only Newcastle had a team as good as their fans. But

the reason I've found that sort of quite interesting was that for most of the last two years,

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