Come On, Eddie That Performance P Was A Disgrace. ..Any More Of That And You'll Be On Borrowed Tyne

Eddie Howe's tone and comments after Newcastle's defeat by Cambridge United on Saturday would have worried me if I was a Toon fan.

- Stan Collymore

He was very relaxed in saying he thought his side used the ball well and only really let themselves down in the final third.

You what, Eddie? It's Cambridge.

I know you've come from Bournemouth, probably an equal-size club with Cambridge in the grand scheme of things, but if you say things like that two or three times at Newcastle you're soon going to find yourself out on your backside.

Newcastle United should never never - as a Premier League club, whether they are 20 points clear at the top or off the bottom, be losing a home game to Cambridge.

It was a disgraceful performance and if that kind of display and reaction keeps happening there will be trouble round the corner. There were also some strange noises from Newcastle fans in the aftermath, with such comments as, 'Oh, well, we can concentrate on the league?