Owen is a Geordie

Confirmation that we've signed Owen greeted me into work today. I needed something to cheer me up after a rough work day yesterday, and this definitely did that.

He's not going to fix everything that's been wrong the first four games, but he'll definitely not make any of it any worse.

And great job to the Chairman et al for pulling this one off - it seemed certain we were in the middle of another Rooney'esque incident where we get used to push up the price of a player, only to have him sign for someone else at the last minute.

Owen set to complete Magpies move