He returned to the Magpies on loan the following year, and also had loan spells at Bournemouth and Port Vale, but was aregular for Saints last season as they were relegated to League One.
In another Palestinian camp, outside Sidon, aport south of Beirut, where the regular Lebanese army dares not go, a bearded Sunni bomb-maker boasts of how many times he has travelled to Iraq to wage jihad.