Nolan Leads the United Recovery ; Newcastle United ... 2: Doncaster Rovers ... 1
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WHERE would Newcastle - and Mike Ashley and Chris Hughton, in particular - be without Kevin Nolan? It's a question few can have predicted would ever be asked, even at a club desperately short on answers.
What is certain is that Nolan's injury-time winner - his eighth goal of a prolific season after a relegation fight to which he contributed nothing last term - revived United's promotion bid Championship. Would Ashley still be in situ had Nolan not come to life in recent weeks? But for the Scouser's 92nd-minute decider yesterday, would Hughton still be in line for promotion? Who knows? One other sure thing is that this victory did not speak all that much for a still unconvincing home side - and certainly not enough to vindicate the vow of silence they adopted afterwards.See the full content of this document
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Nolan Leads the United Recovery ; Newcastle United ... 2: Doncaster Rovers ... 1
Yes, Newcastle showed character. First, to recover from going behind a goal behind before half-time. Then, to sustain that Nolan- led late charge after Zurab Khizanishvili's sending-off, six minutes from time.
But the truth is that this was a performance which generally justified the criticism which ...See the full content of this document
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