Source: PA
Hughton believes home form could be key
Chris Hughton is confident there will be no hangover as his players run out against Aston Villa for the first time since they condemned Newcastle to relegation.
The team Hughton sends out against the managerless midlanders at St James' Park on Sunday will include several survivors from the 1-0 defeat at Villa Park on May 24 last year which consigned the Magpies to a season in the Championship.
Mercifully for the Tyneside club, their stay in the second tier lasted only a season, and although the former Republic of Ireland international was in the dug-out that day as Alan Shearer's rescue mission was finally scuppered, he will put it out of his mind.
Hughton said: "I don't think it has any relevance to the game at all. It's something that is very much in the past.
"We have worked very, very hard since then to get back where we wanted to be, and we are now at home again in front of what will hopefully be a full house at St James', and we have got to make the most of that."
