Newcastle 4-3 Leeds

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Newcastle threw off the curse of being unable to win points from a losing position on Wednesday night, three times coming from behind against Leeds before winning it at the death in a genuine Premier League classic.

In fact, winning it at the death is an understatement, Harvey Barnes second goal of the game coming in the 102nd minute - the latest Premier League winner on record (a stat which has been collected since the 2006/07 season).

Before that unbelievable, wild moment however, we were forced to suffer long and hard.

It started with the pre-game news that King Kev had been diagnosed with cancer, and trite though it seems, this game really was a fitting tribute to the legendary ex-Toon boss.

We then had a fairly standard awful first half hour, culminating in Aaronson capitalising on a truly bizarre Thiaw slip with a smart finish.

That roused us, and good work from Gordon on the right saw him poke the ball into the box, Woltemade, with his back to goal, smartly helping it on to Barnes who finished well.

Thiaw, having had a real nightmare half, then conceded a penalty for handball on the stroke of half time, his protests that he was pushed into the ball by Calvert-Lewin falling on the deaf ears of the generally incompetent ref (who incidentally stopped the game as we were attacking at one point to replace the batteries in his earpiece - nonsense).

The in-form Leeds striker duly buried his penalty, against the run of play at this point.

Half time saw Thiaw rightly hooked (make no mistake, he's been player of the season, but this wasn't his game) for Botman, Tonali also replaced by Livramento, with Miley slotting into centre midfield.

The day after the game brought the announcement by Sandro that he'd had a bairn, which may somewhat explain his recent distracted displays.

We started the second half decently without carving out many chances, until Bruno played an outside of the foot toe poke from the edge of the box onto Joelinton's head, the big Brazilian pulling off a Dan Burn curling header to level the scores.

Schar was then stretchered off with an awful looking leg/ankle injury, presumed to be a break, before some shaky defending allowed Aaronson to score his second and put Leeds in front for the third time in the game.

For once, however, we were not to be deterred, and it was Aaronson involved again, this time at the other end, his handball in the box giving us a penalty as 10 minutes of added time were announced.

Up stepped our captain, with a stuttering run up that took years off my life, before slotting calmly into the corner (compare and contrast with a penalty by a certain player plying his trade down the road tonight).

An absolute harem scarem 10 minutes followed, as we decided to go for it, Leeds wasting time and adding minutes to the clock, though occasionally venturing forward themselves.

But again it was Bruno not taking no for an answer, flinging a ball into the box that Botman nodded towards Harvey Barnes who did phenomenally well to swivel and fire past the despairing keeper - who in fairness, should have saved it.

Full credit to Barnes though for his composure in that moment, and all the lads for a frankly incredible fightback, over and over again.

Forget putting this game into context.

Ultimately, football has always been, and will always be, a game of moments.

Success can't last forever, but memories of individual matches, individual performances, individual moments are what keep us going back.

They're what kept me going to matches for the entire Ashley reign.

And they're much more likely when you assemble a group like we've got in Newcastle today, from the manager down.

Final word goes, yet again, to that lad Lewis Miley.

From another faultless performance at right back (the highlight of which was a heroic sprint to keep the ball in that directly led to our second equaliser) to slotting seamlessly back into midfield to unexpectedly ending up in Schar's position at centre back and looking born to it.

He can do anything he wants with his career - let's hope it's here.