Quintin Jardine's blog

The West Ham vs Newcastle game was on  telly last night. My dear wife is from Tyneside; she was so underwhelmed she went off to bed.

Paradoxically, after losing 0 -2, Steve McClaren, the Newcastle manager,  declared that the result had been ‘a wake-up call’.  Okay Steve, now you’re awake. So WTF are you going to do?