Eddie Howe sack to be decided after 21-day run after Newcastle near crisis after Man City battering

After a week of recriminations thanks to Manchester City’s second-half collapse against Tottenham and his thoughts on the “genocide in Palestine”, Pep Guardiola took the advice of the Jewish Representative Council on board and ‘focused on the football’ to ease doubts over his future, offer vindication for Liam Rosenior and plunge Eddie Howe and Newcastle into the doldrums, if not quite yet a crisis.

“It just doesn’t look as though it means as much to them as Arsenal. Most of them have won all those trophies and if they win the title, then great. But if they don’t, does it mean as much?” a source told The Telegraph after City allowed a two-goal lead to slip at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium on Saturday.

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