Newcastle's new signing Jose Enrique will wear the No 3 shirt - not the most glamorous I'll agree - but we once had Frank Clark ... and "Frank Clark na's me da" (as the terrace song goes).

Enrique is an out-and-out left-back, just like dear old Frank Clark was back in the 1970s. A fellow who took a lot of stick from the Leazes and left under a cloud because he was said to be "over the hill".

Yep he was over the hill alright. Brian Clough signed him and he won just about every medal going - League Cup, First Division title (now the Premiership) and the European Cup!

The Spanish Under-21 international watched United beat Sampdoria from a seat in the St James' Park stands yesterday.

Sam Allardyce: "Jose has hopefully got a very good future in front of him, but we will feed him in slowly. You won't see him at Bolton, or at least I hope you won't, because I would not want to do that.

"I'd like to use the players who have done so well in pre-season for the first few games, with the new ones coming in after that.