Peter Beardsley: “We deserved to win. I know they had a couple of chances and we made a couple of good saves, but overall I think there was only one team looking to win.”
Gabriel Obertan has started 15 Premier League matches in the last four years and Sylvain Marveaux 13 in the last five years. Neither of them are the answer (if the question is should they be playing for Newcastle?) and never have been.
Rafa Benitez appears to be the top-level appointment we have always needed since Ashley bought the club in 2008, but it all feels like too little, far too late.