Newcastle United 1 Tottenham Hotspur 3: Newcastle United supporters who refused to join a boycott of the game only witnessed further evidence of the decline of a team head coach John Carver accepts is now involved in a fight against relegation.

Sunderland 1 Newcastle United 0: Jermain Defoe is a quick learner. Sunderland’s recent acquisition has spent the last fortnight taking a crash-course in Wear-Tyne derby history, and it took him less than 45 minutes to write his name indelibly into its latest chapter.

Check out the starting line-ups for all of tonight's matches.

Manchester City 5 Newcastle United 0: THE prospect of facing mighty Barcelona - Messi, Neymar, Suarez et al - will presumably offer Manchester City more concern than this perfunctory five-goal thrashing of Newcastle but so schizophrenic are the mood swings at the Etihad Stadium these days that captain Vincent Kompany is relishing the prospect.

The team news for tonight's Premier League games.

Newcastle 1 Stoke 1: By Mark Hughes’s usual abrasive standards, his criticism of referee Kevin Friend was calm and measured, but that was only because the Stoke City manager had seen substitute Peter Crouch earn his team a deserved point with a 90th-minute header.

Stoke striker Peter Crouch came off the bench to snatch a draw at Newcastle with a dramatic late equaliser.

All the team news from around the grounds ahead of Week 23 in the Premier League - more to follow as it comes in.

Newcastle United 1 Liverpool 0

All the team news from around the grounds ahead of Week 10 in the Premier League - more to follow as it comes in.

Man City 0 Newcastle 2

Rolando Aarons and substitute Moussa Sissoko struck as Newcastle dumped holders Manchester City out of the Capital One Cup with a 2-0 win at the Etihad Stadium.

Newcastle boss Alan Pardew is likely to be without striker Papiss Cisse once again for the Capital One Cup fourth-round trip to Manchester City.

Tottenham Hotspur 1 Newcastle United 2

Newcastle 1 Leicester 0

All the team news from around the grounds ahead of Week 8 in the Premier League - more to follow as it comes in.

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Team news for the 3pm games in the Premier League

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.

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.

Santi Cazorla was Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger’s only change for the London derby with West Ham.

Robin van Persie has returned to the Manchester United starting line-up as David Moyes desperately tried to find the winning formula against Newcastle.

Hugo Lloris was again missing from the Tottenham squad after being knocked unconscious at Everton last weekend as manager Andre Villas-Boas made five changes to his side for the visit of Newcastle.

Newcastle United 2 Chelsea 0

Newcastle United 2 Liverpool 2

Newcastle boss Alan Pardew will be able to welcome back a trio of key players for Sunday’s Barclays Premier League trip to QPR.

Newcastle full-back Mathieu Debuchy will miss tomorrow’s vital Premier League trip to West Ham through suspension.

Newcastle boss Alan Pardew has Yoan Gouffran back available for Sunday’s Barclays Premier League home clash with Fulham, but there remain doubts over Mathieu Debuchy and Cheick Tiote.

Anzhi Makhachkala 0 Newcastle 0

Newcastle keeper Tim Krul is a doubt for Sunday’s Barclays Premier League clash with Southampton after leaving last night Europa League clash at Metalist Kharkiv with an ankle injury.

Newcastle 0 Metalist Kharkiv 0

Emmanuel Adebayor will be the bench this afternoon following his late return from the African Nations Cup as Tottenham attempt to leapfrog Chelsea into third with victory over Newcastle at White Hart Lane.

Midfielder Cheick Tiote could return to the Newcastle squad for tomorrow’s Barclays Premier League trip to Tottenham.

Newcastle boss Alan Pardew has wrapped his new boys in cotton wool ahead of tomorrow’s Barclays Premier League clash with Chelsea.

Newcastle United 1 Reading 2

Newcastle have agreed a fee with Montpellier for defender Mapou Yanga-Mbiwa.

Newcastle manager Alan Pardew could welcome back defender Steven Taylor for the Premier League match against Reading.

Norwich 0 Newcastle 0

Alan Pardew named Fabricio Coloccini in Newcastle’s starting line-up at Norwich despite the fact the defender has asked to leave the club.

Brighton 2 Newcastle 0

Brighton 2 Newcastle 0

Brothers Shola and Sammy Ameobi will line up together as Newcastle make five changes for today’s FA Cup third round tie at Brighton.