A big occasion and another massive derby day Shola contribution, here is the big Fenham lad’s post-match reaction.

‘From The Terraces’ Classic Video footage, NUFC 5 sunderland 1, watch with anticipation for Sunday.

On Sky they announced that Liverpool could go 4th if they beat Spurs. As the scousers required 5 points to get to this position I assume the presenter thought his eyes were deceiving him and assigned Liverpool 5th place, thinking Newcastle to be some sort of misprint.

If ever the result was everything, that would be tonight.

Easily the worst Newcastle United performance of the season rewarded with three points, you couldn’t make it up.

I reckon it would be a pretty startling, but welcome, statistic if United went into the 2012/13 Premier League season with Captain Coloccini at the ripe old age of 30, out on his own as the voice of experience in the Newcastle dressing room.

Demba Ba; Often, you can close your eyes, hit and score. Sometimes, you try every trick in the book but the ball refuses to go in”.

Rumour has it that Alan Pardew will be passing on this valuable advice to our ‘goalscorers’ currently not in Africa.

We are cheating a bit today in our series of class Newcastle United No.9 video action.

Shola rises like a salmon(!) to head the winner in 4-3 cup win at Chelsea last season, classic video action from the terraces!

Reasons to be cheerful….5th in table, Martin’s Mackems got beat, Swansea did us a favour…..and you’re almost certainly not the bloke I heard after the match who said, “…thought Shola had a canny game…”.

Arguably the team’s biggest test to date against an in-form Tottenham.

Character shows through again as the Toon hit back twice to earn deserved draw. Read our exclusive match report and give your reaction to today’s ninety minutes.