Possible Clues:

• Club requiring fresh players, one held by Yorkshire team, briefly
• Young players playing tune, idle in club up north
• Magpies, twenty nearly, caused Neil to be agitated
• Football team based at St James' Park
• Novel man put together for team
• Recent players joined to support the French football club
• Fresh move to protect man on one's team
• Tyneside football team
• Recent move on board agreed in football club (9,6) {6,3}