Intensity, team photos & fatherly advice: Inside Howe's Newcastle
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BBC Sport journalist
It is 6 November 2021 and a 1-1 draw at Brighton leaves Newcastle second bottom of the Premier League and facing the very-real prospect of a return to the Championship.
Weeks earlier, the club had been taken over by a Saudi Arabian-backed consortium, who talked up the idea of Champions League football and winning trophies.
Despite the optimism among fans about entering a new era, such thoughts seemed a million miles away.