Eddie Howe back at Newcastle but admits there could have been ‘different outcome’

• Manager ‘not 100%’ after absence due to pneumonia
• Howe thanks club doctor for insisting he go to hospital

Eddie Howe has acknowledged there could have been “a different outcome” had he not been admitted to hospital in time to treat the pneumonia he initially tried to ignore.

Newcastle’s manager has thanked the club’s doctor, Paul Catterson, for insisting he could not shrug off an illness Howe had initially self-diagnosed as flu and that he needed to seek urgent specialist treatment.