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LOCAL HEROES, OR DIRE Straits?

"ANOTHER CLEAR EXAMPLE OF SPORT WASHING?"

Every time they play at their St James’ Park home, Newcastle United walk out to a tune called Going Home. This is the theme from British film Local Hero, for which Mark Knopfler wrote and produced the soundtrack.

The Dire Straits frontman is a lifelong Newcastle fan, but the question must be asked whether the music icon is still comfortable with his debut solo single still being so closely linked to his local club. For while the takeover of the Magpies by Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF) was predominantly greeted with unbridled glee on Tyneside, not everyone is quite so overjoyed at

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