Nigel's Name Change

THOSE fans paying close attention to events at St James' Park on Saturday will have noted an unusual name change on the back of Nigel Reo-Coker's shirt.

As many players do at half-time, Nigel swapped his shirt and came out for the second-half sporting one with his name spelt 'Rio' instead of 'Reo'.

It was an unfortunate error at the Club's shirt printers Chris Kaye, who are the official supplier of the shirt lettering to the Premier League, which caused the problem.

Kit manager Eddie Gillam explained: "We picked up the newly printed shirts from Chris Kaye on the Friday morning shortly before we flew to Newcastle.

"Unfortunately, we didn't have the time to check the shirts and by the time we spotted the error we had already arrived in Newcastle.

"Chris Kaye have apologised to the Club for the mistake.

"We were hoping that Nigel wouldn't want to change his shirt at half-time, but he was okay about wearing it!"