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Is becoming Newcastle’s first new-era manager the right job for Eddie Howe’s long-awaited return?

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 Howe is set to join Newcastle and is a fine manager, but this feels the wrong fit for him The celebrated basketball coach John Wooden would say “failure isn’t fatal” but if he worked in modern football, he’d concede that it is the portrait shot most choose of you. Eddie Howe took charge of Bournemouth when they sat 91st of 92 clubs in England and couldn’t afford to pay players, the rent, or for electricity. He lifted them from the “edge of the abyss” to the Premier League, staying for five years against convention before suffering relegation. Annoyingly and undeservedly, it is those last two words that stick. You probably also know that in-between his miracle-making at Bournemouth, Howe “failed” at Burnley. Perhaps you weren’t aware that during his spell at Turf Moor, 260 miles away from home and living in Manchester at the time, his mum Anne suddenly passed away in March 2012 after a short illness. “I found that period just after my mum died so difficult. It was tough on me personall

BBC drops Michael Vaughan from radio show amid allegations in Yorkshire racism scandal

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  The BBC said in a statement that Vaughan would not appear as a presenter on Monday’s topical Tuffers and Vaughan Show given his ‘personal involvement’ in cricket’s biggest news story The BBC has dropped Michael Vaughan from his radio show on 5 Live amid allegations made against him in the Yorkshire racism scandal. Vaughan revealed in his Daily Telegraph column on Friday that he had been accused by his former Yorkshire teammate Azeem Rafiq of making a racist comment towards a group of Asian players, allegedly saying: “Too many of you lot, we need to do something about it.” The 47-year-old used the article to “completely and categorically deny” making the comment. However another former Yorkshire player, Rana Naved-ul-Hasan, has alleged that he also heard Vaughan making the comment while playing for the county. The BBC said in a statement that Vaughan would not appear as a presenter alongside Phil Tufnell on Monday’s Tuffers and Vaughan Show. “The BBC takes any allegations of racism