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Tottenham theory confirmed as Newcastle United defence comes up with mean message

It was written in a smile as wide as the Tyne Bridge. Anything you can do I can too!

Newcastle's laughing cavalier Miggy Almiron, the hottest ticket in town, scored his sixth goal in 12 Premier League matches to win a sensational match at previously unstoppable Spurs. Callum Wilson, normally United's top finisher, had opened the scoring with a terrific swivel and finish to push closer to Almiron's total before Miggy displayed his flair by whipping the ball low into the far corner of a bemused Hugo Loris's net.

Having secured a two-goal lead United's defence then came up with their own message to a disbelieving world: what we do regularly we can keep doing. The meanest defence in the Premier League were never going to surrender that record or sacrifice a two goal advantage even when, Harry Kane wasted in this Tottenham side, pulled one back just eight minutes into the second-half.

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