Ameobi rescues point in feisty affair

It was the North-East turf ‘wor’ taken rather too literally.

If sport in general and football in particular is meant to be a modern-day metaphor for combat, the somewhat safer version of warfare, then as far as this match was concerned, it failed miserably.

Newcastle and Sunderland simply cut out the middleman and went at it hammer and tongs for 90 memorable minutes that should have been accompanied with a parental guidance warning.