Newcastle are stuck between owners – leaving a club where no one takes responsibility

Newcastle United St James' Park
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A lack of communication from inside St James’ Park during the coronavirus downtime has a predictable outcome: fans losing out

In a way, nobody owns Newcastle United at the moment. Technically they do, of course, but with the Saudi Arabian takeover still awaiting ratification by the Premier League, the club exists in a strange netherworld. That will continue to be the case until there’s a decision.

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Seb Stafford-Bloor is a football writer at Tifo Football and member of the Football Writers' Association. He was formerly a regularly columnist for the FourFourTwo website, covering all aspects of the game, including tactical analysis, reaction pieces, longer-term trends and critiquing the increasingly shady business of football's financial side and authorities' decision-making.