Let’s Swipe the Barcodes Again: Newcastle Pre-match & Predicted Line-Up

Let’s get this show back on the road Just over a week ago Newcastle United held us to a goalless draw over 90 minutes in the FA Cup. We managed to beat them in extra time but there’s no extra time in the Premier League so we tonight we have to do better. The good news is that Tierney and Martinelli are both back in training and are available. That’s particularly pleasing in the case of our Brazilian attacker because his looked like a bad injury when he broke down during the warm-up for the cup game against the Barcodes. Only Mari remains unavailable because of injury (he is “continuing to rehabilitate” from a calf injury). It gets boring to keep saying how important each game is, but this one does indeed seem to have some significance. We ended a truly awful ...