As a season ticket holder who has endured some grim times at St James's Park in recent years, the announcement of Freddy Shepherd being replaced as chairman made me a very happy little ginger boy.
As a journalist, it's made me even happier.
Nothing sells papers in Newcastle like football, and this summer has been a veritable soap opera from the moment that Mike Ashley bought out the Hall family's shares in the club.
Tomorrow's Journal features reactions from fans, comments from our sports writers (some of whom Mr S banned from St James's for incurring his wrath!) and analysis of what this means now for United.
Judging from the people we've spoken to so far, the papers will be flying out of the shops after being bought by lots of people of a black-and-white persuasion with huge grins on their faces.
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