Four monumental changes since Newcastle last faced Tottenham just days after takeover delight

When Newcastle United last lined up to face Tottenham, the Magpies were a different football club entirely. Bursting with expectation and anticipation, St. James' Park was the loudest it had been in years as the new owners were unveiled to the masses for the first time.

The £300m Saudi takeover had been confirmed just a few days earlier to huge fanfare, with supporters lining the streets with their cans of choice celebrating the beginning of a new era.

Fast forward six months and on the whole it has been a relatively smooth start for the new regime. The ethical dilemmas of the takeover still rear their head regularly but in footballing terms, it has been a positive start for the new ownership.

Eddie Howe, appointed less than one month after the regime change, has transformed the club's fortunes on the pitch with a nine-point buffer between Newcastle and the relegation zone. But bigger changes have been made since the 3-2 defeat to Tottenham in October.

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Results on the pitch and signings in January are the obvious signs that the takeover has revitalised the football club and the region as a whole. But Newcastle fans are also thankful for the subtle changes off the pitch.

Just days before the Spurs clash, Amanda Staveley, her husband Mehrdad Ghodoussi and Jamie Reuben gathered St. James' Park staff to discuss their aims for the future. It fired the starting gun of what would be a full-scale revamp of how the football club would operate.

Since the Tottenham clash in October last year, the new owners have given more media interviews than Mike Ashley did in his entire 14-year tenure, made huge donations to the NUFC Fans' Foodbank, reached