Newcastle v Reading

A crowd of just over 35, 000 saw Newcastle rip apart any fight back reading had in the second half at St James's park in the late kick off on Saturday. Smiles were back on the faces on Newcastle fans for 90 minutes at least while Ameobi put three goals in the back of the net to seal our first three points and take us to dizzying height's in the league table we have not seen for a while. The first half saw chances go begging as Gutierrez got his feet tied up on a couple of occasions to keep reading in the hunt for victory. Reading were passing the ball around but the majority of the play was all black n white. Eventually Ameobi got on the end of a Ryan Taylor cross and find the net to bring us in 1-0 at the break.

the second half saw Ameobi complete his first ever Hat-rick for Newcastle United and didn't he enjoy it. He later dedicated the 3 strikes to his former boss sir Bobby Robson.

The game we won yes and by a good margin but if reading had put one away earlier with one of their many chances it could have been very different. We should be winning these games and we should get back to the premiership asap but with talk of more players leaving its going to be difficult. The 3-0 victory could paper over cracks if we are not careful. We needed these points on Saturday but we also need the players we have at the club. getting rid of them could change things very quickly on the pitch.