it's probably bollocks. i remember hearing that whoever was in charge of blackburn at the time wanted to sign him but the chairman vetoed it, saying 'what do you want zidane for, we've got tim sherwood'. it's the first i've heard of newcastle being linked and you'd have to think if that was true then ginola would have known all about zizou and you'd have thought keegan would have asked what he thought of him.
and as for silkman, words fail me to convey how much of a scumbag he is. nobody has the right to belittle a cancer sufferer like that. i hope he's ashamed of himself (but he probably won't be)