Alan Pardew: "Mike Ashley thoroughly enjoyed Sunday - he thought it was 'good theatre', those were his words, and it probably was.
"But for us as a club, it's important he has a good hold of the football club and a good psychology towards it, which I think he has at the moment.
"We are just going to try to grow with the financial discipline that we have.
"If they [Sunderland] had beaten us at home, it would have been difficult to say we had had a great season.
"But we managed to come back in outstanding fashion, and now we can just go on in the last 11 games and play with a smile on our faces, hopefully.
"It's a combustible game. It was a tackle that there was always going to be a reaction to, and players mainly just ran over to try to keep everybody away.
"I don't think there was anything too threatening going on, but it probably didn't look too good on the TV screens.
"Hopefully, we can defend ourselves and Sunderland can defend themselves and we can all move on."