Saudi Arabia Football News

OLIVER HOLT - CHIEF SPORTS WRITER: Let us disregard the succession just for a moment and agree that if Mike Ashley departs Newcastle United, it will be a reason to celebrate.  If he finally sells, it will feel as if a shadow has gone. It will feel as if a yoke has been removed. It will feel as if Tyneside is finally rid of a man who knew the price of the club but never, ever came close to understanding its value. Ashley has tried to impose his cynicism and his opportunism on a club and a culture that runs on loyalty and passion. He has failed. That, too, is reason to celebrate. The Toon Army sniffed him out soon enough and have been trying to escape his loveless embrace ever since. Finally, deliverance appears to be imminent....read