“There were large parts of it that I was delighted with – and, hopefully, we can take that into Saturday."

“It wouldn’t be Newcastle if we didn’t make a drama out of it! It must be something in our DNA."

“For an hour, I was very pleased. But, then that horrible mentality of when you think it’s too easy."

“We switched off and to be fair to West Brom, they never gave up.”


I think that something in our DNA are called poor substitutions (and yes, Rafa also made poor decisions substitution-wise) when things are going well.

It wouldn't be in our DNA if our managers knew what they were doing IMO.