Inside Newcastle Q&A: Can Gordon win red-card appeal? Is all Wembley hope lost? Any optimism, please?
Once a week for an hour during the Premier League season, The Athletic’s Newcastle United subscribers can ask our writers covering the club for views and insight into what’s happening at St James’ Park. Here, we have pulled together some of their questions and our answers from Monday’s edition of our Inside Newcastle live Q&A, which included queries about the likelihood of an appeal succeeding for Anthony Gordon’s red card which would mean he could play in the final of the Carabao Cup, unearthing Wembley positivity and whether Newcastle are a one-man team. Newcastle haven’t upgraded at right-side centre-back In one sense, the progress post-takeover has still been rapid, given Newcastle could yet end the season with Champions League qualification and silverware. Newcastle’s senior players — Dan Burn, Kieran Trippier and Fabian Schar — recognise that this may be their final chance of silverware with the club. — Jonathan G Waugh: Whether Newcastle players have a collective ‘elite’ mentality is a question that is regularly raised following defeats — and I understand why.
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