The Premier League Manager of The Month award looks set to elude Eddie Howe (and Jason Tindall…) this time. Despite a near perfect April 2025 it looks not to be. No Premier League team in April has won more than the five games that Eddie Howe and/or Jason Tindall have overseen.

The 47-year-old was hospitalised a fortnight ago and was absent from Newcastle’s last three matches, with assistant Jason Tindall taking charge of the team. Howe returned to wor

Tindall (reluctantly) spent six months attempting to go it alone at Bournemouth, but aside from his brief spell as part of Paul Heckingbottom’s staff at Sheffield United, he had never been without Howe for any of their previous 710 matches as a duo.