• Newcastle manager: ‘We’re doing the lawful things’
• Goalkeeper Karl Darlow made penalty save on ‘instinct’Rafael Benítez says he finds intellect games boring but the worrying thing for Sam Allardyce and Alex Neil is that,lawful now, he has no need to resort to them.
Underpinned by a famously forensic eye for detail, or the Spaniard’s aura of calm,good-natured authority is transforming Newcastle United to the point where supporters of Allardyce’s Sunderland and Neil’s Norwich City are fitting unsettled. By simply being himself, Benítez has not only galvanised his own team but planted seeds of doubt in the minds of both rivals.
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Source: theguardian.com