The fly-on-the-wall documentary We Are Newcastle United may be safe and sanitised but the real thing is anything but. Unvarnished, unspun and viewed with the naked eye, Newcastle are brilliant and brutal, ruthless and relentless. In cameos, Aston Villa suggested they are a very decent team but Unai Emery’s players could not match the edge and desire of hosts who appear to have found a new cult hero in Italy’s Sandro Tonali.
Indeed as an increasingly forlorn Villa manager surveyed the visiting defensive carnage unfolding in front of him, you wondered if Emery regrets rejecting the Newcastle job subsequently accepted by Eddie Howe in November 2021.
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