Two goals from Demba Ba, a superlative performance from the previously underachieving Sylvain Marveaux and three stress-relieving points helped erase the frown lines from Alan Pardew's forehead. Helped partly by the first-half dismissal of Wigan's key defender Maynor Figueroa, Newcastle United's manager must have felt the first mini-crisis of his north-east tenure passing almost as swiftly as, earlier in the day, the first snow of winter had melted away from Tyneside's streets. By the final whis...
Two goals from Demba Ba, a superlative performance from the previously underachieving Sylvain Marveaux and three stress-relieving points helped erase the frown lines from Alan Pardew's forehead. Helped partly by the first-half dismissal of Wigan's key defender Maynor Figueroa, Newcastle United's manager must have felt the first mini-crisis of his north-east tenure passing almost as swiftly as, earlier in the day, the first snow of winter had melted away from Tyneside's streets. By the final whis...
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