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Newcastle owner Mike Ashley pulls plug on staff wages - but Toon stars still getting paid

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Newcastle owner Mike Ashley has become the first Premier League chief to stop paying staff – by ordering scores onto furlough.

While Steve Bruce's players and coaching chiefs, who collectively earn £100m, remain on full pay for now, most of the general workforce are sidelined as the coronavirus panic threatens to cause a cash crisis in the game.

They include staff from the club's charity arm, the Newcastle United Foundation. Last week they were working to deliver food parcels and contacting elderly season ticket holders – but have now been ordered to stop work and claim their wages from the Government.

The move will hardly make a dent in the club's costs – and questions are being asked as to why staff who make up a fraction of the

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