Old manager resurfaces - be afraid Newcastle fans! Thursday, 3.30pm: Former England manager and dreamwrecker Steve McClaren alone in the bar of London’s Soho Hotel. He’s been there for a while and every so often badgers the staff in a “Where’s the person I’m supposed to be meeting?” kind of way.

4 pm update: McClaren started eating (at 4 o’clock!) with a man who looked like a ‘young Richard Nixon’, possibly an agent. The orange one went for a pasta-type dish and was seated in an otherwise empty dining section of the hotel. He looked extremely nervous, yet despite his shifty demeanour, he had chosen a table in plain view of the large glass entrance door .

Unfortunately for someone, he had an ‘I’m about to ruin another football team’ look about him.