Toon - Not A Bad Weekend

... obviously one of the teams was going to pick up points, so I don't think it was that much of a disaster, to be honest.

Watford play on Monday against in-form Man City, so I'm sure Stuart Pearce can do his old club a power of good and take the points.

Elsewhere Manchester United took advantage of Chelsea's day off to win 2-1 at Middlesbrough to put the Teesside down amongst the rest of us.

Ex-Newcastle striker Craig Bellamy, cleared of assault charges earlier this week, was on the mark twice as Liverpool thrashed Wigan 4-0 at the JJB Stadium and suddenly alarm bells are ringing at Wigan.