DETROIT -- There are some things in football that seem so obviously destined to go wrong you wonder why they happen in the first place.
Among such doomed scenarios was the appointment of Graeme Souness as manager of Newcastle United in September 2004, and when chairman Freddy Shepherd announced the unpopular successor to the popular Sir Bobby Robson, we sat back and waited for the rows and the sacking.
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