Newcastle United’s luck ran out at Fulham on Saturday. Amazingly, Newcastle could have actually gone top of the Premier League table with a win at Craven Cottage – which would have been a fairly remarkable feat given how poorly they’ve played for much of the season thus far. Still, they had shown character to claim three wins and a draw in their opening four games while relying on some individual brilliance at times to take an unbeaten record to west London. That, however, all came to an end in a 3-1 defeat and a performance so bad it was labelled as “awful” by Alan Shearer. While it’s difficu…
