No-one ... and I mean NO-ONE ... can say Blackburn deserved anything from that match at St James' Park, but the luck went against the Magpies.It was not the result we wanted, but at last the signs are there that we can get out of this slump.
One win will do it, and that cannot be far away.
Keegan: "Football can be cruel. I thought we played some really good stuff today.
"We should have come in at half-time at least two goals to the good, and we created another four or five chances in the second half.
"But amazingly, through a combination of sometimes not finishing off great moves and very good goalkeeping from Brad Friedel, they kept in it.
"That's bad enough, 0-0, but to go and then pinch at the end 1-0 was a real body blow for us and something I don't think the players deserved - in fact, I know they didn't deserve it."
NEWCASTLE UTD 0 BLACKBURN ROVERS 1
NEWCASTLE: Harper, Beye, Taylor, Faye, Jose Enrique, Milner,Barton, Butt (Martins 67), Duff (N'Zogbia 78), Owen, Smith.
Subs Not Used: Forster, Cacapa, Carroll.
BLACKBURN: Friedel, Ooijer, Samba, Khizanishvili, Warnock,Emerton (Derbyshire 61), Bentley, Reid, Pedersen, Santa Cruz,McCarthy (Roberts 60).
Subs Not Used: Brown, Kerimoglu, Mokoena.
Att: 50,796