Damien Duff says he's prepared to go down with Newcastle United.<> "I'm as loyal as they come, whether the gaffer stays or goes," Duff told the Shields Gazette. "I'd love to try and get us back up.

"I've loved working with him. It's been a proper, proper football club for eight weeks, and it's about time. It's just disappointing we couldn't stay up for him and the fans.

"I think he's been brilliant, even though we haven't got the results to keep us up.

"It's the first time in a long while that this place has felt like a proper football club.

"Things are done right, and it's been a breath of fresh air. If there's one man to get us back up, it's him."