The Newcastle defence is in crisis but the worst part of all is that this is happening season after season when looking at the stats.

Contributor Jane Clark writes; ‘The Newcastle United problem everybody chooses to ignore’.

You have to see this as a serious character flaw in our current team/squad, conceding one goal should not make it much more likely that you should concede quickly again. Going a goal down should see you rolling your sleeves up and trying extra hard to make sure you don’t allow the match to totally slip away.

Last season’s consecutive home matches against the mackems and Liverpool summed up a fragile look to our team, once conceding a goal they went to pieces.

Were those two matches a one (two) off or is it a pattern backed up by stats?

Credit where it’s due, when you have players like Cisse and Ben Arfa making all the headlines, it’s possibly very easy to forget that our five game winning run has been achieved by conceding precisely one goal.