Foreign Stars Must Respect the Geordies - so Says a Frenchman ; Building a Team Based On Geordie Pride Sounds Like a 'Canny' Way to Run a Football Club. At Least That's What a French Winger Who Lost His Heart to the Magpies Believes. Stuart Rayner On David Ginola's Newcastle United Blueprint.

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IN the often-xenophobic English football, foreigners are seen by many as the root of all evil. When the final whistle blew on another World Cup of underachievement and the soul-searching began, those from overseas bore much of the blame for the Three Lions' failings.

Sub-standard foreign mercenaries threaten the development of young English talent but not every footballer lacking a British passport is substandard or a mercenary. So it is perhaps fitting that the man adamant acquiring a passion for the North East and its most high-profile football club should be a pre-requisite for joining Newcastle United this summer, is a Frenchman who knew little of the region before he began embracing it in 1995.

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Foreign Stars Must Respect the Geordies - so Says a Frenchman ; Building a Team Based On Geordie Pride Sounds Like a 'Canny' Way to Run a Football Club. At Least That's What a French Winger Who Lost His Heart to the Magpies Believes. Stuart Rayner On David Ginola's Newcastle United Blueprint.

At a time when a Geordie can manage Sunderland, David Ginola reminded us those from overseas can be passionate about Newcastle United.

He hopes all those who don the famous black-and-white stripes in the future take...

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