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IAN LADYMAN AT ST JAMES' PARK: A goal to rejuvenate a football team and perhaps to kick start a season. A goal to remind the naysayers that there is beauty still to be found in
the Premier League.
Newcastle were not supposed to win this game. Not after having a player -
Jacob Ramsey - sent off unjustly for a dive that never was just before half-time. Once
the Manchester United midfielder
Casemiro equalised an
Anthony Gordon penalty that had quickly followed
the red card‚ it seemed inevitable that
Eddie Howe's team - in such poor form of late - would wither. But despite all the over-reactive talk of falling standards and levels of entertainment‚. football at
the top level remains wonderfully unpredictable and not only did
Newcastle somehow retain
the upper hand against a poor
United team that looked short of ideas‚ they struck to win the game right at the end of a second half in which
they played with courage and - from somewhere - energy.