I'm not agreeing with him, but I'm yet to see anyone disprove Johan Cruyff being in witness protection, and time will only tell when it comes to our Queen Princess Diana.
The meaningless, pointless, nothing more than a glorified training session, friendly held after the season has ended is the real test for Howe and the one I'll base judgement on.
The only thing I'll say is, we've been as fans asking all season for this defence to be picked so why its taken until now and an unparalleled amount of injuries for Howe to finally pick it is beyond me.