Ashton Gate and The Day Of FateWhen the Newcastle United friendly at Bristol City was announced, I couldn’t believe my luck. We headed to Ashton Gate wearing nothing identifying us as Newcastle United fans. I could tell from their conversations that the people in front and behind us were Newcastle fans too. I briefly argued that it’s different for friendlies and I’d been to plenty of international ones where home and away fans mixed without incident. When he explained Eddie Howe had left his role I was dumfounded…Thursday became a day of barely working whilst following the unrelenting coverage on the topic.