Newcastle United 0-3 Leicester City

Vardy netted in a 3-0 win for Leicester City, who climbed to the top of the Premier League table. “We have played 12 matches and after January we can speak more clearly about Leicester”.

Earlier this week, he compared his team’s progress to a huge ship turning around and yesterday joked: “It might be the Titanic we are trying to turn around but we feel we are progressing”.

“You can see what our problems are”, he said. “As bad as we were was as good as they were”.

“Then they said something the game I should have played”.

Sissoko, who featured as a late substitute for Les Bleus against England in midweek, is one of seven French players in Newcastle’s squad, and McClaren revealed they are helping each other come to terms with the traumatic attacks on their country.

City’s visit to Newcastle last season may have ended in a much-needed win for the hosts, but Pardew was the victim of abuse at half-time as the fans expressed their dissatisfaction at the performance. We’re going to get setbacks along the way, still, before we get that consistency and today was a ideal example of that.

“That game proved we still need to adjust a few things”. You need to know what level of performance you are going to get and at the moment we do not know that.

“We have to recover from that now”.

However, the game was overshadowed by Vardy’s increible run of form as he has now scored in 10 consecutive matches, equalling Ruud Van Nistelroy’s record also set at St James Park back in 2003.

But McClaren knows unless his side can continue their mini revival and bring more hope to the Toon Army, they will vent their frustration towards Ashley even more vehemently and he will receive the collateral damage.

The defeat was compounded by the groin injury suffered by Cheick Tiote, who is now facing a spell on the sidelines.

“Once we lost that, we didn’t have a lot of options”.

According to The Shields Gazette, when asked if Mitrovic could be left out of the starting lineup at Selhurst Park this weekend, McClaren said: “We will have a look at that”.