Texas Youth Mistaken For Magpie Owner

While on a school sponsored field trip to New York, Texas teenager, Bobby Hill, was mistaken for Newcastle owner, Mike Ashley.

The 13-year-old who is from Arlen, Texas, a town known for its love of American Football, was shocked as a group of Newcastle fans clouded around him to give their two quid about the current tribulations at St. James's Park.

When the fans finally realized that the youth was not the teams incompetent owner, they offered to buy the lad a pint, clearly ignoring the legal drinking age in the United States.

"Well, I figured that was the worse offense I could have given, like. So it was only common courtesy to offer him a proper drink to repay me own stupidity," said one of the supporters.

When told of the saga that has engulfed the northeast corner of England for some time, the boy had this to say:

"I use to play soccer but my dad didn't like the fact that I was one of eight other captains. I don't even think he would like the fact that I look like the owner of a team. My dad doesn't really understand soccer but I think it's kinda funny. So what's this Mike Ashley guy like?"

When he was informed of the rash decision by Ashley in buying the team and his, now subsequent, selling of the team, Hill kinda laughed then looked confused before responding.

"It's not good business to do stuff like that. You can get into hairy situations if you run shoddy business like that. My dad's boss, one time, almost got killed by some guys that he was playing cards with because he promised them his business. Problem was, my dad's boss lost and tried to take it back. My dad is pretty much cleaning up his boss's messes for him. Maybe that's what Newcastle need, someone like my dad."

Hill was delighted to take photos with the Toon Army and even sported a Newcastle jersey for the pictures.

"I hope Ashley's listening. It took a 13-year-old boy to tell a grown man how to do his job, like, and that's just sad," said another supporter as she boarded her coach to return to the airport.

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