IT'S STILL IN OUR HANDS

Trippier is clinging to the hope of another top-four finish... but the Magpies won't make it with slapdash defending like this

- MIKE WALTERS

KIERAN TRIPPIER says Newcastle haven't given up hope of another top-four finish and a Champions League encore.

But if Toon have to win every game three times, they won't be needing their passports next season.

Night owls who stayed up late reckon the widest gap in sport is the difference between winning and losing the Super Bowl.

But never mind the San Francisco 49ers and Kansas City Chiefs' squabble in Las Vegas the chasm between the world's richest club on paper and the top four looks "geet walla", as they say in Geordie heartlands.

Top marks to England defender Trippier and Bruno Guimaraes, two-goal hero at the City Ground, for refusing to give up the ghost.

The Newcastle skipper insisted: "There's still a lot of points to play for and we're not going to give up on the top four.