Source: PA
Hughton stays focused
Chris Hughton's determination to keep Newcastle in the Barclays Premier League has only increased in the wake of the shock home defeat by Blackpool.
The Magpies boss will send his side into their difficult trip to Everton hoping they can regain some of the ground they conceded last weekend when, with a bumper crowd having turned up at St James' Park expecting them to roll over the Tangerines just as they had done Aston Villa three weeks earlier, they went down 2-0.
Hughton said: "It's not easy - it certainly ruins the rest of your weekend. But at some stage during that, something has to kick in, and what has to kick in is the realisation that there was more good than bad.
"Certainly from a game like that, if we hadn't created the chances, I would have come away from it feeling even worse, but what we did do was create a lot of chances, as we did the game before away to Wolves.
"You feel if we are still able to do that, we will possibly get a little bit more fortune than misfortune. Players being players, they tend to bounce back and have a spring in their step a little bit quicker because that's the nature of the game.
"They are the ones who are on the football pitch who have to do the hard graft for 94 minutes. They get their rest and recovery and go again. As managers and coaches, you are analysing things over and over in your head - but amongst all that, it does make you more determined."
