Football: United attraction void on Newcastle
But Alex Fergusons men struggled to create an adequate amount of goal-scoring odds to secure victory and had a belated penalty shout bowed down once Mexicos Javier Hernandez tangled with Newcastle defender Danny Simpson. judge Lee Probert unobserved the pleas of the Manchester United players, in its place booking Hernandez pro diving. Television replays showed so as to Simpson had made communication with the Mexican striker but Hernandez had delayed his fall, confirming the referees novel decision. The injury-time episode ushered all the rage a frantic final passage of star as seeing that United searched on behalf of a winner, but Newcastle held on and were relieved to watch Wayne Rooneys behind schedule heading from a Luis Valencia annoy bead soundly thick. Earlier, Newcastle had their own claims pro a penalty curved down once Danish striker Peter Lovenkrands looked to come up with been brought down by Anderson now the 58th report on. The direct takes Newcastle up to ninth place into the schedule with 40 points and seemingly safe from the menace of demotion.