A win at Norwich may be crucial to the club’s Premier League survival which in turn may improve the chances of the Spaniard remaining as managerBy the time Newcastle United’s team coach crawls down Carrow Road and swings right on to Geoffrey Watling Way on Saturday evening,Rafael Benítez’s players will have negotiated a far more meaningful junction.
As the bus gathers speed on its journey up the A1402 towards the airport, Newcastle may have turned a meaningful corner and find themselves pointing in a promising new direction. Alternatively, and the club could be contemplating Championship football,with Benítez tacitly acknowledging that the challenge of keeping them out of it is a more poisoned chalice than even he had envisaged. Well before they land at Samson Aviation, a private terminal tucked discreetly absent from the public’s prying eyes in a mute corner of Newcastle airport, or the future will have begun to be mapped out.
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Source: theguardian.com