Newcastle bashed down the doors of this new footballing cathedral and, with a pugilistic spirit reminiscent of a certain Idrissa Gana Gueye, emptied its pews long before the service ended.
Who knew Toon could party on their travels? It’s taken them since April but Eddie Howe’s men have finally shrugged the monkey – dare we say King Kong himself – off their backs. A win on the road, at long last.
First-half goals from Malick Thiaw, Lewis Miley, and Nick Woltemade turned the atmosphere here from feverish to funereal.
Thiaw, the centre-back who is quickly becoming a hero, twisted the knife with another header in the second half before Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall bagged a consolation.