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Newcastle United away. Despite their struggles this season, it is probably the one fixture Tottenham Hotspur could do without this weekend.
Spurs head north on Sunday afternoon in the Premier League - with the hosts set for a carnival-like atmosphere as their fanatical fanbase celebrate the fact that the 14-year Mike Ashley ownership reign is over following the completion of a £305million takeover from a Saudi Arabian-led consortium on October 7.
Understandably all eyes will be on Newcastle; and that focus could provide a welcome relief to Tottenham's misfiring talisman Harry Kane.
Harry Kane is yet to score in the Premier League this season as Tottenham travel to Newcastle
Newcastle fans are set to go wild on Sunday - in what will be their first game under new owners
Kane has been a shadow of himself this season but will hope to be Newcastle's party pooper
To put it bluntly, the 28-year-old is enduring a miserable start to the Premier League campaign.
Having played six of Spurs' seven matches so far, Kane is yet to score in the top flight. This is his longest barren run in the competition in seven years, when he failed to score in eight games across April and October 2014 (the end of