Newcastle have avoided the prospect of a storm-enforced late arrival on the south coast of England ahead of Saturday’s match at Southampton.
Eddie Howe and his players arrived in Hampshire on Friday afternoon after their plane proved one of only a handful cleared to take off from Newcastle as Storm Éowyn forced the cancellation of a raft of flights to and from the airport. The north-east spent Friday under an amber weather alert and was battered by dangerously wind speeds sometimes in excess of 80mph.
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