IT‘D BE GREAT TO SEE PAL NICK PLAY IN CUP’By Chris Dunlavy

ICELAND may have failed to qualify for the World Cup but that doesn’t mean Johann Berg Gudmundsson will have nobody to support in Qatar. Newcastle keeper Nick Pope, who will vie with Everton’s Jordan Pickford for the No.1 shirt, is one of the Burnley winger’s best friends in football. Pope, 30, broke into the first-team at Charlton in 2014, the same year that Gudmundsson arrived from Dutch side AZ Alkmaar. Two years later, the pair were snapped up by a Burnley side newly-promoted to the...