You know a relentless tide of depression has been truly turned when your team are way out of tune yet go two goals up in the first quarter of an hour.
Then, having gifted the opposition a comeback goal through poor defending early second half, they are passed to death amid dripping tension yet win once again.
So it was for Newcastle and their merry Magpie followers. This when United have given away a shedful of points from winning positions this season and were playing their bogey side. In other words in times gone by United would have certainly lost a game they duly won.
