Quote of the day

"I saw an interview with Alan Pardew afterwards where he said he hoped to get some of the £35million and I thought, 'Alan, you ain't going to get any of that'."

King Kev gives Jabba another public poke in the eye on Radio 5, while also implying that his latest successor might be a little naive.

Analysing the sale of Rocky in the context of the deal which saw James Milner leave St James' Park, our two-time former boss stressed his insistence that a replacement should be secured before the outward transfer was concluded. When that insistence was ignored, Keegan himself walked - and the lack of any decent contingency plan in the wake of Rocky's departure indicates that lessons still haven't been learned.