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CRAIG HOPE: Four without a win in the Premier League, no goals from open play in nearly seven hours and a feeling that Eddie Howe's best XI is weaker than it was two years ago. Key players such as Kieran Trippier and Callum Wilson have aged and are increasingly absent, while others like Fabian Schar and Dan Burn are sound performers but will turn 33 this season.

CRAIG HOPE: One year ago, Newcastle beat Paris Saint-Germain 4-1 here in the Champions League. This was a victory all the same, but champagne football it was not. A lack of energy in the energy-drink cup, more like. Incredibly, an attendance of 51,739 was just 270 short of the number of lucky souls who saw their team dismantle the French champions. That was a night for the ages. This was a night to age you. It needed a home penalty in first-half stoppage-time to break the tedium, and without it maybe the tie would have drifted to penalties. Newcastle had been slow and sideways to that point, and Wimbledon were happily watching them dally.

CRAIG HOPE AT CRAVEN COTTAGE: Finally, after four matches unbeaten and with a chance to go top of the Premier League, Newcastle got the result some of their performances have perhaps deserved - a defeat. They have mugged a couple of opponents already this season and came here knowing that victory would fire them to the summit. This time, the bandits were the victims. Victims of a rampant Fulham and victims of their own mistakes. Each of Fulham's three goals came with a visiting assist. Joelinton and Fabian Schar were culpable for the first, Nick Pope for the second and Bruno Guimaraes for Fulham's clincher in stoppage-time. Individual errors, yes, but there was also a collective malaise, especially in the first half when Newcastle had no intensity, identity or ideas. Fulham, by contrast, came out all guns blazing, before Newcastle borrowed the shooters and blew their own feet off.

RIATH AL-SAMARRAI: At some point the internal squabbling and underwhelming football might drag Newcastle United towards a dark place. For now, they find themselves unbeaten in the top three and with a growing reputation for the picking of pockets. Quite how they lifted this one from Wolves is a mystery, given they were so poor for so long and contrived to win it with a half-time substitution born from Eddie Howe's desperation and anger. They were 1-0 down by then and the embodiment of that truism around having all the gear and no idea. For all the possession they had held, they did zilch with it - too slow with the pass, too slow to react to the counters, too slow in realising they were doing all the things Wolves wanted them to do.

AADAM PATEL AT MOLINEUX: A stunning strike from Harvey Barnes completed a remarkable comeback for Newcastle as they overcame Wolves 2-1 at Molineux. Barnes came on at the start of the second half but saved his biggest impact for the 80th minute when he cut infield from the left wing and unleashed a curling effort into the top right corner. The winger's goal came just five minutes after Fabian Schar scored the equaliser when he scored a long-range effort that took a cruel deflection off of Craig Dawson and beyond Sam Johnstone's reach.

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW BY MATT BARLOW: The pantomime villain of this new Premier League season could hardly have been friendlier or more placid. And the serenity of Southampton's training base by the Solent could hardly have been further removed from the seething hostility of St James' Park. Sprinklers fizzed, mini tractors trundled around spraying fertiliser on the grass and Ben Brereton Diaz shuffled down the path in socks and sliders and addressed for the first time the flashpoint on his Saints debut which ended with Newcastle's Fabian Schar sent off. 'For me it was adrenaline,' he said. 'In the game I felt contact and went down and that's just how it is. If it's not a red card, the VAR has got to come in and say it's not a red card but for me I felt contact and that's it.'

Barcelona's Ferran Torres could be headed for a surprise return to the Premier League as Newcastle are reportedly preparing a bid for the winger. Torres spent a season-and-a-half with Manchester City before returning back to his native Spain when Barcelona signed him for £47million in January 2021. Despite his hefty price tag, Torres has struggled for consistency since moving to the La Liga giants.

CRAIG HOPE AT ST JAMES' PARK: In a fourth season of Saudi-led ownership, the first substitution made by Newcastle United was Emil Krafth for Jacob Murphy - two players bought by Mike Ashley for Steve Bruce and Rafa Benitez. That is not a slight on either player. Murphy has revived his top-flight career under Eddie Howe and was a worthy starter. Krafth came on when Fabian Schar was sent off after half an hour and played a part in seeing home a hardy 1-0 win. But the change served to highlight where the club is at, especially on a day usually reserved for excitement and anticipation around new signings. Newcastle had none in the starting XI. 

CRAIG HOPE AT ST JAMES' PARK: Southampton debutant Brereton Diaz fell to the ground after he and Schar nudged foreheads during a first-half altercation. Craig Pawson sent off Schar and booked Brereton Diaz, who was mercilessly booed thereafter. Newcastle defender Dan Burn then waited in the tunnel for the forward at half-time and Southampton's players were forced to step in. Speaking after his side's 1-0 win, Howe said: 'I think it's really harsh on Fabby.'

CRAIG HOPE AT ST JAMES' PARK: It was backs to the wall but come the end Southampton were banging their heads against that black and white blockade. In losing Fabian Schar to a red card in the first half, Newcastle gained so much more. Here was a victory chiselled by heart and desire and fuelled by an apparent injustice. Joelinton was the home match-winner in more ways than one. He scored the game's only goal in first-half stoppage-time and then defended the lead as if his life depended on it, and because of that his team survived with a victory that seemed unlikely in the extreme after half an hour. By then, Schar was off after an altercation with Ben Brereton Diaz and newly promoted Southampton were in the ascendancy. They had been the better team until that point. Newcastle, by comparison, weren't very good with or without the ball. Joelinton was the home match-winner in more ways than one.

Newcastle United centre back Fabian Schar's first game of the season lasted just 28 minutes after he was sent off for a headbutt on Southampton's Ben Brereton Diaz. Schar, 32, was shoved to the floor from behind and reacted angrily, first pushing Diaz and then putting his forehead forward before the Saints star fell theatrically. And despite a VAR check, Newcastle were reduced to 10 men to put their start to the season under threat.

Television cameras picked up Jude Bellingham being brutally mocked by a Switzerland fan during England's Euro 2024 quarter-final on Saturday. The England star got into a one-on-one battle with Fabian Schar in the first half and tried to burst away from the Switzerland defender. Schar put his arm across Bellingham before the England midfielder grabbed Schar's shoulder and fell to the ground. He got a free-kick and Schar was shown a yellow card for the challenge, but one supporter clearly felt it was soft.

They may be one of the surprise packages of the tournament so far, but there will be a few familiar faces when England meet Switzerland in their Euro 2024 quarter-final today. Ms Munger leads a roll-call of Swiss Wags, or 'Swags', who include Akanji's interior designer wife, Melanie, 28, who follows 30-year-old Stones' partner Olivia Naylor, a 34-year-old former beautician, on Instagram.

CRAIG HOPE IN DUSSELDORF: Fabian Schar has told England to keep their hands off Newcastle boss Eddie Howe. The Magpies defender and his Switzerland team-mates would almost certainly prompt Gareth Southgate's departure if winning here in Dusseldorf this evening. Howe is likely to be the preferred choice of the FA top brass on the back of his fine job at St James' Park, where he inherited a team in 19th and took them into the Champions League within 19 months.

Switzerland fully deserved to progress into the quarter-finals where they have a potential date with England. Berlin had been the venue for Italy's triumph at the 2006 World Cup but they never looked like pulling off a repeat as they were second-best in every department. Here, Mail Sport's JOE BERNSTEIN runs the rule over who impressed - and which players should do better - in the first of the last-16 matches.

IAN HERBERT IN COLOGNE: A tide of royal blue support on the banks of Rhine lifted Scotland to another level on Wednesday night and kept their place in these championships alive. The team they urged on were confronted by opponents who threatened them and just briefly, looked like they might bury them, but Scotland were lifted to another level. They took the point which means a win against Hungary in Stuttgart on Sunday could take them to the knock-out stages of a tournament for the first time. You would not say it was a European sophistication from Scotland. Just direct, vertical, muscular highly effective football. And it worked. Amid the cacophony of noise, they struck a post and could walk away in the knowledge that that were the better side.

CRAIG HOPE: After exceeding expectations to qualify for the Champions League in 2022-23, this season was a more trying one for Newcastle. They were booted out of the Champions League at the group stage, lost six Premier League games in seven over the winter period - 14 across the 38 games - and were knocked out of both cup competitions at the quarter-final stage. The Magpies struggled with an injury crisis during the season, and despite improving in the final months of the season, they missed out on Europe despite finishing seventh - after Manchester United kicked them out by winning the FA Cup.

Ange Postecoglou accused his Tottenham team of lacking bravery after they slumped to their heaviest defeat of his reign at the club. Alexander Isak netted twice for Newcastle, with Anthony Gordon and Fabian Schar also getting on the scoresheet, as sorry Spurs saw their top-four hopes rocked at St James' Park despite having 73 per cent of possession. 'It's nowhere near good enough,' admitted boss Postecoglou. 'I was concerned with all of it. There wasn't any part of our game that reached the levels that it needs to for us to be able to play the game on our terms. 'We allowed them to dictate the way the game was played. A lot of it was self-inflicted by us. We weren't brave on the ball. 'We have been really good this year at understanding that when we have the ball we can be a threat - but we shied away from that. We didn't wrestle control at any stage and we paid a price for that.'

If Eddie Howe thought that Newcastle's 4-0 victory over Tottenham was the perfect afternoon for his side, he may want to think again after it was revealed the win triggered a transfer clause.  The Magpies ran riot against Ange Postecoglou's side as Alexander Isak, Anthony Gordon and Fabian Schar all struck to seal three points for the hosts.  The victory has helped put them in pole position for a place in next season's Europa League, after leapfrogging Man United, but it also appears to have come at a price.

Goals in both halves from the Swede took his tally for the season to 21 and helped bump Newcastle up to sixth place. Anthony Gordon and Fabian Schar also got in on the act as Newcastle, who now have 10 points in their last four games, continued their recent revival. It was a clumsy day for Van de Ven, who slipped twice to allow Isak and Gordon a free hit at the hapless Guglielmo Vicario from point-blank range.

Newcastle beat Fulham 1-0, continuing their late push for European football. Bruno Guimaraes screamed a brilliant winner for Eddie Howe's side at Craven Cottage after latching onto a loose ball on the edge of the penalty area. The visitors had a goal called out just minutes before the game, with Fabian Schar's attempt chalked off for a foul from Dan Burn in the build-up. The Magpies have risen to eighth position, just one point behind seventh. DOMINIC HOGAN of Mail Sport has rated the participants...

The latest international break may be over, but the narratives and discussions surrounding various national teams are only likely to rise in the run-up to Euro 2024. The 24 teams that will be competing in Germany this summer have been confirmed at the conclusion of Tuesday's play-off finals. Among the bookies' favorites to win the tournament are France, England, Germany, and Portugal, which will begin in Munich on June 14th.

CRAIG HOPE: Despite the marches in Sheffield on Wednesday, the overcrowding in Newcastle's FA Cup match against Hillsborough last year has now been described as a "near miss" by the organisers. After we highlighted fears raised by followers of Leppings Lane End, where 97 Liverpool supporters died after a crush in the 1989 FA Cup semi-finals, Mail Sport has been barred from attending matches by the Championship club. Fans of Newcastle's frightening in the concourse and tunnel entrance to the seating area prior to kick-off. We reported their evidence and were informed by the club that we were no longer accepted at Hillsborough.

The midfielder approached the supporter before heading down the tunnel to broker the swap agreement, which resulted in him obtaining two Kinder Bueno packets more than his colleagues. Walking down the tunnel, Guimaraes looked down the camera and shouted 'yesss! Clearly jubilant with his newly acquired treats,'