Rafa Benitez had clearly given his players new orders and if the ball wasn’t able to be quickly played through Jonjo Shelvey…

Steve McClaren “It was great to be back at St James Park, Newcastle is a great club with great supporters.”

Interesting comments from Derby fans ‘Make up of the ground doesn’t help. It’s like looking over the fence at someone else’s party’.

Newcastle v Derby player ratings – All 14 United players from Saturday afternoon’s match rated by NUFC supporters.

Derby defender Chris Baird has taken his lead from Steve McClaren and is in denial about the Newcastle 1 Derby 0 match.

Official video highights from Newcastle 1 Derby 0, including the winner and Scott Carson’s assault on Perez that went unpunished.

Ciaran Clark “We created chances…whilst limiting Derby to very few – it was a good performance.”

Rafa Benitez “It is not fair to get to that stage at 1-0 when we had so many chances.”

Steve McClaren “We shouldn’t have lost that game…We deserved to get something.”

Newcastle 1 Derby 0 – Instant NUFC fan/writer reaction to Saturday afternoon’s win.