Opinion

Saturday afternoon’s match ended West Ham 3 Newcastle 1.

Ahead of each match we ask one of our writers to come up with three positives and three negatives following the game.

Plenty to talk about after this one!

On this occasion it is ‘Matt Busby said to Joe Harvey…’:

POSITIVES

Murphy’s goal

A great goal by Jacob Murphy inside the first five minutes, his third of the season, as he continues to keep £55m Anthony Elanga out of the starting eleven.

Old Boy serenaded

After we had to endure those disgraceful want away tactics employed by Alexander Isak during the summer, it was great to hear the appreciation that the travelling toon army gave to another player that left us recently, when he was replaced by Thomas Soucek on the hour.

Callum Wilson spent five years at Gallowgate and left with our well wishes and his head held high, on the pitch when the final whistle sounded at Wembley in the League Cup Final last March.

Scoring 49 goals in 130 appearances for Newcastle United, had it not been for the various injuries Callum sustained in his time with us, those statistics would have undoubtedly...