And with that, we bid you farewell.

See you all tomorrow for another busy afternoon of Premier League football. Until then!

The second half is about to get under way in Newcastle.

You can follow that game in full here.

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David Higginson: How can we be this bad? Do the players actually go to training or do they just nip to the Belfry instead?

Aidan Mifsud: Hard finding something witty to say about villa struggling and sinking on this waterlogged pitch. At least it's funny.

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Former Newcastle United defender John Anderson on BBC Newcastle

"Newcastle haven't created a great deal or worked the Villa keeper much, but the hosts have been the better side and deserve the lead. 

"Newcastle's groundsmen need to get on there now and get to work, because there are patches of standing water."

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This game could be in doubt you know, the rain shows no signs of slacking off and the ball is not rolling too well across the centre circle. 

That's half time. 

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Former Newcastle United defender John Anderson on BBC Newcastle

"It's an awful corner kick, and it wasn't the greatest strike in the world either! It was poor defending as well to let the ball roll all that way, but Fabricio Coloccini and Newcastle will take it!"  

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Ho ho ho, Mike...

I'm not going to lie to you, this is a shocker.

But if I can tempt you for more coverage of said shocker join Andy Cryer here.

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Former Newcastle United defender John Anderson on BBC Newcastle

"Newcastle are so lacklustre. Both sides are passing the ball around so aimlessly, it's like they both want a ball each. 

"The longer this goes on, Villa will grow in confidence because they haven't been asked any questions by the Magpies."

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Aston Villa have gone 15 Premier League games without a win (D3, L12), the longest run without a victory in their league history. No Premier League team with as few points after 16 games as Aston Villa (six) has stayed up. They have kept just two clean sheets in their 16 league games this season.

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Former Newcastle United defender John Anderson on BBC Newcastle

"Villa haven't yet shown anything at all. There are a number of visiting players, particularly certain midfielders, that look really poor."  

Norwich City

Norwich captain Russell Martin told Sky: “I’m sure a lot of people will be talking about Manchester United’s performance, but I thought we thoroughly deserved it. To a man we were outstanding. 

"You can talk about game plan and tactics all you like, but this week we just decided to go out on the front foot and see where that took us.

“We came up here with no fear, even though they’d not lost a league game at Old Trafford all season. We used the ball well, pressed with intensity and there was a real desire that has won us the game."

Ten minutes into a rainy night in Newcastle and quite literally nothing has happened.

You can join Andy Cryer for that one here if you wish. It might get better! 

Manchester United

Asked if the pressure is building, Louis Van Gaal added: "That’s the football world. I know that, my board knows that, my players know that. We’re not used to that because normally we win, so it’s a difficult period. 

"We've lost three matches in a row so it’s not happening so much for Manchester United. We can’t accept that and that’s why I have to repeat, we have to stick together and believe in ourselves.

“I’ve encountered these circumstances also with other teams and other staff. The main thing is that you have to be professional and do the things that you have to do and work very hard to come out of this bad period."

Asked if he will be given time to turn it round, he added: “It’s not up to me I think to say about that question but we shall see."

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Norwich City

Norwich boss Alex Neill told BBC Sport: “It’s a really important win. We’ve been in most of the games against the bigger sides, our problem has been that we’ve been the makers of our own downfall if you like, but today we eradicated those mistakes. The boys were fantastic and deserved to win the game.

“We wanted to attack this league and sometimes you take a bit of a hiding on the back of that, but since we lost to Newcastle we’ve been a lot more resilient and harder to break down. Hopefully we’ve kick-started something with this win. We deserved this victory.

"We’ve got important games coming up, we’ve not got as many points on the board as we’d have liked but this is a welcome three points and hopefully we can add to that tally over the Christmas period."

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