When Eddie Howe fell ill last week and it became clear Newcastle’s manager could be absent for some time, the team’s captain, Bruno Guimarães, convened an emergency meeting of senior players.
Everyone resolved, in Guimarães’s words, to “keep our standards as high as ever” and subsequent actions have shown they meant it.
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