Newcastle 2 Everton 3 – Saturday 28 February 2026 3pm

Instant fan/writer reaction from some of our regular contributors on The Mag.

Nat Seaton:

‘No shying away from the fact this was a poor performance.

Disjointed at times and many players below par who I will not name.

A formation at the start that proved to be unsuccessful, took 30 mins to change. We scored within 2 minutes of the change, only to give the lead back in disastrous fashion.

Their third goal just summed up our day.

Let’s move on to Wednesday and put this behind us and hope for better things against Man Utd’

Simon Ritter:

‘Groundhog day at St James’ Park.

A depressing rerun of the Brentford match in the most recent Premier League match at home, scoring two but conceding three.

Everton have an excellent away record this season, so this was no surprise despite the bookies making the visitors 16/5 against to win.

For as long as I can remember, pundits have said a team are at their most vulnerable just after they score. We proved that in spades today.

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