Peter Beardsley has described Ferreyra, de Jong and Armstrong as ‘outanding’ after they beat Villa’s reserves.

Alan Pardew has claimed Newcastle were great in two thirds of the pitch but admits to ‘stuttering’ where it really matters.

Writer Wiz believes that Newcastle United are trying to break the mould…again – with success bought on the cheap.

Alan Pardew has claimed that his team ‘absolutely dominated’ – despite it being 87 minutes gone before Villa’s keeper had to make a save and no penetration.

Alan Pardew hopes Newcastle will have some points by the time they play Palace, meaning a result at Villa where Hatem Ben Arfa turned in a masterclass last season.

Alan Pardew; “I thought the Manchester City game wasn’t a real reflection of Mathieu, I thought he was very affected (by Cabaye fiasco) that day and you can understand as they are very close friends.”

No, the one common denominator is (apart from a packed St James’) momentum! Come on lads, let’s keep it up!

Not dismissing any major or minor disruption to non-football fans’ lives but I’ll leave you to decide whether there was much ‘causing havoc’ on this particular occasion

Anybody who regularly/irregularly travels to away matches know that the good times aren’t likely to be that frequent, so no wonder we make sure that we enjoy them to the max when they do come our way.

A peruse of the recent edition of The Mag seems to reinforce that everyone is of a similar mindset. NUFC under Ashley is broken and there’s little chance for the situation to be salvaged, with hope directed only towards the day when we may part ways with the current overlords. In the meantime we’ll support the team as ever because that’s what we do.