Newcastle 1-0 Sunderland - Live!
Minute-by-minute report: Kevin Keegan pits his wits against Roy Keane as Newcastle attempt to keep their fine run of form going
GOAL! Newcastle 1-0 Sunderland (Michael Owen, 4 mins)
2 mins McShane is lucky to avoid a booking after scything down Michael Owen as Newcastle break from defence. "That would have been harsh so early in the game," parps our TV commentator. Erm, why? It was a late, bookable challenge.
1 min Away we go then, with Beye failing to control a pass down by the goal line on the left hand side and nudging the ball out for a Sunderland goal-kick.
Some Sky bod just pointed out that: Newcastle have kept three clean sheets in their last four games. When was the last time you could say that?
A fat man in a Newcastle shirt ... is meandering around the pitch butchering what I can only assume is a Magpies anthem. Sky cut to several fat men without shirts in the stands looking nonplussed.
Team news: Abdoulaye Faye and Nicky Butt have both shaken off injuries to start for Newcastle, but Sunderland have to do without the knacked Jonny Evans and Phil Bardsley in defence. Those two are replaced by Danny Higginbotham, who scored the opener in the reverse fixture in November, and Paul McShane, while Carlos Edwards and Liam Miller have also been brought in to replace former Newcastle striker Michael Chopra and Kieran Richardson respectively.
Newcastle: Harper, Beye, Faye, Taylor, Jose Enrique, Geremi, Butt, Barton, Owen, Viduka, Martins.Subs: Forster, Duff, Smith, Edgar, Carroll.
Sunderland: Gordon, McShane, Nosworthy, Higginbotham, Collins, Edwards, Whitehead, Miller, Reid, Murphy, Jones.Subs: Fulop, Harte, Richardson, Chopra, Leadbitter.
Referee: Mike Dean (Wirral)
Preamble: Hello, and welcome to the most north-easterly of all this afternoon's Premier League derbies. Back in November these two drew 1-1 at the Stadium of Light, but that was before Kevin "King" Keegan arrived to save Newcastle from evil Samuel "Sam" Allardyce and his dastardly one-striker formations. On paper there's not an awful lot riding on this one - neither side is going to get relegated at this stage, even if it is still mathematically possible - but it's a Tyne-Wear derby, so if nothing else we should get some fisticuffs in Sky's Fanzone commentary box.
2 mins McShane is lucky to avoid a booking after scything down Michael Owen as Newcastle break from defence. "That would have been harsh so early in the game," parps our TV commentator. Erm, why? It was a late, bookable challenge.
1 min Away we go then, with Beye failing to control a pass down by the goal line on the left hand side and nudging the ball out for a Sunderland goal-kick.
Some Sky bod just pointed out that: Newcastle have kept three clean sheets in their last four games. When was the last time you could say that?
A fat man in a Newcastle shirt ... is meandering around the pitch butchering what I can only assume is a Magpies anthem. Sky cut to several fat men without shirts in the stands looking nonplussed.
Team news: Abdoulaye Faye and Nicky Butt have both shaken off injuries to start for Newcastle, but Sunderland have to do without the knacked Jonny Evans and Phil Bardsley in defence. Those two are replaced by Danny Higginbotham, who scored the opener in the reverse fixture in November, and Paul McShane, while Carlos Edwards and Liam Miller have also been brought in to replace former Newcastle striker Michael Chopra and Kieran Richardson respectively.
Newcastle: Harper, Beye, Faye, Taylor, Jose Enrique, Geremi, Butt, Barton, Owen, Viduka, Martins.Subs: Forster, Duff, Smith, Edgar, Carroll.
Sunderland: Gordon, McShane, Nosworthy, Higginbotham, Collins, Edwards, Whitehead, Miller, Reid, Murphy, Jones.Subs: Fulop, Harte, Richardson, Chopra, Leadbitter.
Referee: Mike Dean (Wirral)
Preamble: Hello, and welcome to the most north-easterly of all this afternoon's Premier League derbies. Back in November these two drew 1-1 at the Stadium of Light, but that was before Kevin "King" Keegan arrived to save Newcastle from evil Samuel "Sam" Allardyce and his dastardly one-striker formations. On paper there's not an awful lot riding on this one - neither side is going to get relegated at this stage, even if it is still mathematically possible - but it's a Tyne-Wear derby, so if nothing else we should get some fisticuffs in Sky's Fanzone commentary box.
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