The super loyal and committed Toon Army, with 1,500 year season ticket waiting lists only just managed to sell over half of the tickets on sale for the match against Sakhnin last night. This from their local rag yesterday,
‘Newcastle United will probably be playing in front of a half empty stadium when they open their UEFA Cup campaign tonight. When the box office opened this morning only, 21,000 tickets of the 52,000 plus capacity had been sold, including only 100 to the opposition.’