Newcastle are back in training with a bang. In Isaac Hayden's case, with a very big bang!! Steve Bruce's squad returned to full contact training late last week and anyone logging on to the club's official website can see for themselves, the players were at it full pelt.
Fabian Schar in particular - as Hayden can testify. The tough tackling Swiss international clearly couldn't wait for Project Restart's phase one of footballers training programme to end and phase two to kick in – quite literally.
In a full-scale practice match at the Magpies' Benton training base, Schar clattered into his Toon team-mate with a full-blooded challenge which wouldn't have looked out of place in the red-hot atmosphere of a bad-tempered derby.
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