With it looking like TikTok is going to have to stop operations in the USA this weekend, makes you wonder what the actual trend will be for making pop hits happen when one considers that TikTok was going better in how it was working to attract young people's attention.
Mixed feelings imo. Of course there will be a respect from some given he took over a club going nowhere under a deeply unpopular board in what's now the Championship and at risk of going out of business in the late 80s/early 90s to a genuine Premier League power player, one that should really have won a league title, as well as reaching 2 FA Cup finals in the late 90s and reaching the Champions League again in the early 2000s under Bobby Robson, attracted a lot of big name players and modernised St James' Park twice over to its current capacity.
Where it gets more complex is that a lot of his finance was put in from loans and when the club was floated as a PLC in the mid-90s, it was used to pay them back, mostly through fans who brought the shares whose value plummeted. Picking a fight with fans over stadium seats, raising ticket/shirt prices, having his son slag off the fans in the infamous Fake Sheikh debacle, the club being in a bad way financially in 2007 when Hall cashed out and the like didn't help.
I think it looks better now than it did both for the fact the 90s were such an iconic time in Newcastle's history and the Mike Ashley era that followed was a slog.
I like this video from just before the Saudi takeover went through exploring the nuance.