Unite union: Wonga 'preying on the poor and desperate'

This is the day when Newcastle's owners sold this city's great footballing name for 30 pieces of tainted silver.

Payday lenders are preying on the poor and desperate in the North East, which has some of the highest levels of debt and borrowing in the country. Newcastle United is now being used by Wonga to normalise legal loan sharking.

Newcastle fans, who could be borrowing up to £325 per month just to get by, let alone get along to a game, will feel sickened that the club they love will now be associated with the extortionate rates of credit that make their lives a misery.