Given warns of relegation danger

AFTER the giddy optimism of Kevin Keegan’s second coming, reality is beginning to bite at Newcastle United.

Three games, one draw and no goals later, the scale of the task confronting Tyneside’s Messiah is becoming only too clear, with goalkeeper Shay Given warning that the club is now embroiled in a relegation battle.

Newcastle might have a seven-point cushion over the current bottom three but they are winless in the league since December 15 and confidence appears to have hit rock-bottom.