Norwich City 3 Newcastle United 2: Newcastle manager Rafael Benitez maintains his team can survive in the Barclays Premier League despite a “painful” loss at Norwich.

Blaise Matuidi’s late strike steered France to a 3-2 victory over Holland on an emotional night at the Amsterdam Arena.

Luckless Newcastle midfielder Siem de Jong feared he could lose the sight in one eye after a freak training ground accident.

Newcastle skipper Fabricio Coloccini is looking upwards rather than over his shoulder after playing his part in a significant upturn in the club’s fortunes.

Jordan Ayew’s piledriver denied Newcastle a third successive Barclays Premier League victory and handed relegation-haunted Aston Villa a glimmer of hope.

Crystal Palace 5 Newcastle 1: Steve McClaren hopes Mike Ashley will back him to the hilt so he can command the dressing-room respect needed to win Newcastle’s relegation dogfight.

Newcastle 0 Leicester City 3

There was more goalkeeping worry for Martin O’Neill after Newcastle manager Steve McClaren confirmed Rob Elliot suffered a recurrence of a thigh injury.

Man City 6 Newcastle 1: Sergio Aguero has no peers when it comes to the Premier League’s striking department.

West Ham 2 Newcastle 0: Slaven Bilic gave Steve McClaren another miserable evening as West Ham finally got their home campaign up and running with a 2-0 win over Newcastle last night.

Aaron Ramsey is as likely to take notice of the high-profile brickbats aimed Arsenal’s way from the acerbic tongue of Gary Neville as he is the Premier League table before the end of October.

NEWCASTLE UNITED 2 SOUTHAMPTON 2:

Newcastle United 2 West Ham United 0: As a survivor of testicular cancer, Jonas Gutierrez is used to winning battles far more important than those against mere relegation.

LEICESTER CITY 3 NEWCASTLE  0: Mike Williamson has apologised for his sending-off for Newcastle at Leicester on Saturday but denied his manager John Carver’s claim that his dismissal was deliberate.

A gunman entered the headquarters of Dutch national broadcaster NOS and demanded airtime on television, before being detained, company officials said.

An armed man entered the building of Dutch national broadcaster - NOS - earlier, and demanded airtime on television.

Newcastle defender Mike Williamson insists the squad remain "100%" behind under-fire boss Alan Pardew despite lurching to another Premier League defeat on Monday night.

Newcastle boss Alan Pardew is set to remain in charge of the club for the foreseeable future, despite mounting calls for his dismissal, in the wake of his side’s dismal start to the Premier League season.

All the team news from around the grounds ahead of Week 3 in the Premier League - more to follow as it comes in.

Team news for the Second Round of the Capital One Cup.

Ten-man Newcastle registered their first point of the new Barclays Premier League season after fighting out a disappointing 0-0 draw with Aston Villa.

Aston Villa boss Paul Lambert has named an unchanged XI for today’s Barclays Premier League home clash with Newcastle.

All the team news from around the grounds ahead of Week 2 in the Premier League - more to follow as it comes in.

Argentina 0 Netherlands 0. (AET) (Argentina win 4-2 on penalties)

THE BANNER held up in the Argentine end depicted Pope Francis with his disciples on either side.

Captain Robin van Persie may miss the Netherlands’ World Cup semi-final against Argentina tonight as he is struggling with an upset stomach.

Nigel De Jong is hopeful of completing a miraculous recovery from injury to play in the Netherlands’ World Cup semi-final against Argentina tomorrow.

Newcastle have completed the signing of forward Siem de Jong from Eredivisie champions Ajax.

Netherlands 2 Mexico 1

WORLD CUP GROUP B:

Jordan Henderson returned to the starting XI as Liverpool looked to beat Newcastle and give themselves a chance of winning the Barclays Premier League.

Newcastle 1 Swansea 2

Newcastle 0 Manchester United 4

Southampton 4 Newcastle 0

Newcastle 0 Everton 3

Newcastle 0 Everton 3

Atletico Madrid 4 AC Milan 1 (Atletico win 5-1 on agg)

Arsenal have Kieran Gibbs back in their first XI and record signing Mesut Ozil on the bench for the Barclays Premier League clash with Stoke at the Britannia Stadium.

Newcastle 1 Aston Villa 0