OTF

Diame's our best January signing in the last few years.

Good save de gea

What a soft prick Martial.

Could probably do with a few jogs as well.

Life is peaceful there.

Benteke's hands are all over Clark as well, pathetic officiating. We have no composure at all, lucky to not have lost that with the way we played the second half.

Clark makes amends for the penalty (that should never have been).

Darlow's kicking here started poorly and is somehow gettong worse. Poor balls back to him most of the time, but he is brutalising them even allowing for that.

For someone so short Yedlin's balance is lacking.

Against us? About once every other month. For us approximately never.

We need a time out. Shambolic at the moment.

Wonder why it was Kenedy he took off. Dummett clearly annoyed by the soft penalty against Clark, letting Townsend have it. Speaking of Townsend, what's going on with his 'hair'?

That is soft as fuck. Bullshit.

Aye, when he gets a sniff of the full ball in that sort of position he commits 100% to it and it's beautiful to watch. Most of the time the attacking player knows it's coming and if they know what's good for them they'll get out of the way.

Talk about living dangerously...

I was singing for Diame to be sold before the season, but he has clearly turned a corner in his recent run of games, good to see him get a goal, reward for a renewed commitment on the pitch.

Lascelles pushing forward and losing the ball. Good sharp keeping from Darlow.

Yep.. or a chance of one at least. He's begrudgingly loaned a few players hoping to keep us up on the cheap, to then sell up in the summer. Think he realises how volatile his SD business is so wants to cash out of NUFC. Of coursethe tightwad had to loan out as many players as possible to negate as much of the additional spend on wages as possible.

...up front to throw a spanner in the works. Probably miss a few matches for that, so on second thought that's probably not the best idea.

Mitrovic off the Fulham on loan. A little bit puzzling given we've been subjected to Joselu starting so often with so little to show for it. Slimani comes in injured, you'd think there would be enough reason to keep him available for the run home. Clearly Rafa doesn't rate/trust him, but bafflingly does rate Joselu despite continued confirmation that he's not producing.

Dummett has been one of our better defenders on the few occassions that he has played, sure Kenedy would be better at getting forward but would imagine he'd be suspect defensively. Another wide options that's neither here nor there in terms of improving the squad. It's key to get some players in just to rejuvenate things, so even if only for that purpose they should get something happening. Plus don't want to hear the same rumours next window.

Gayle's a horrible header of the ball.

When Dwight Gale went down earlier in the season there was more meaningful contact. The fact that it was a hand in this case combined with the disparity between the clubs and players involved no doubt made it an easy decision for the ref.

Lovely finish there.

Bellamy is such a self righteous wanker, thankfully they've got Given there to talk a little sense when Bellamy suggests that Newcastle should go for it because there's notning to lose.