For Newcastle the equation is simple; win one of their remaining two games and Tyneside’s 20-year exile from the Champions League will be over.
The celebrations could well begin on Monday night when Leicester travel here but, should Aston Villa win at Liverpool, they would be triggered as early as Saturday. On this evidence, though, a few of Eddie Howe’s players could be almost too tired to party.
The indefatigable Lewis Dunk and Jason Steele excepted, much the same could be said of Roberto De Zerbi’s evidently fatigued players as they aim to take their club into Europe for the first…
