I can handle the pressure, says injury-hit Magpies’ boss

NEWCASTLE boss Graeme Souness has brushed off suggestions that he is under pressure as he attempts to halt his club’s alarming slide down the Barclays Premiership table.

The 51-year-old Scot will send the Magpies out at former club Blackburn on Boxing Day with a crippling injury list threatening to hamper his efforts to improve upon a return of just five points from the last 24 on offer, a statistic which graphically illustrates their downward spiral into 13th place.

Only victory at Ewood Park would start to placate the restless natives on Tyneside, some of whom have already passed judgment on the man drafted in to replace Sir Bobby Robson back in September.