Newcastle are short of defensive cover with just Fabricio Coloccini and Steven Taylor available as senior professionals at centre-back, while Danny Simpson has filled in, along with Thomas Kadar and Ben Tozer in reserve.
This was the lot of the famous reformer, Count Istvan Szecheny, after the suppression of Lajos Kossuth's revolution in 1848, just as it was the lot of Janos Kadar after the Soviet Union crushed the Hungarian uprising in 1956.