The popular wide-man chats at length about a remarkable couple of weeks for the Magpies, and reflects in depth about his own role in the side.

Among the other contents of the 84-page issue – recognised as one of the league’s best last season – is a bumper historical section, increased in size for 2023/24. Club Historian Paul Joannou provides four pages, as does regular UNITED columnist Stan Gate, who brings all sorts of black and white memorabilia back to light. There’s the fourth chapter of The European Years – a new regular feature looking back at each and every one of the Magpies’ continental campaigns to date – as well as the latest instalments of The Poster Boys and When Worlds Collide, the latter shining a light on a couple of both clubs’ lesser-remembered players.

There’s plenty to read about United’s Under-21s and women’s teams, including in-depth pieces with Aidan Harris and Olivia Watt and another new feature, Academy Alumni, in which we catch up with a different Magpies academy graduate every issue. This week, it’s Lewis Cass, who’s now plying his trade for Port Vale in League One.

Sky Sports’ Pete Graves provides his latest column, while Johannesburg-based Mag Nic Stothard takes centre stage in Mags Around The World.

Furthermore, there’s ten dedicated pages on our visitors to SJP, four more for Junior Magpies, Eddie Howe and Jamaal Lascelles’ thoughts ahead of the game and much, much more.

UNITED will be on sale around the ground, priced at £3.50.