Newcastle United are heading back to the Premier League and Daryl Murphy, Ciaran Clark, and Rob Elliot are going with them.
As much as we’d love to write a little bit more about what a magnificent achievement this is and how well Rafa Benitez, his staff and players have done to seal promotion at the first time of asking, that isn’t the focus of this article.
Instead, we’d like to concentrate on the not-so-subtle attempts of Preston’s Paul Gallagher to deny Newcastle a third goal with his hands – one that Luis Suarez himself would’ve been proud of.
Already leading 2-1 at this stage, Gallagher pulled off a quite magnificent reactionary save, pushing the ball away to his left. Unfortunately for him, he is not the goalkeeper (although maybe he should be).
As a result, he received a straight red for his troubles and Newcastle got themselves a penalty which was tucked away by Matt Richie.
Great save from Paul Gallagher. One that Claudio Bravo would be proud of. pic.twitter.com/c1p9rRy2Gm
— Matty Roper (@M_Roper96) April 24, 2017
Newcastle ended up adding another goal and the game finished 4-1 at full-time.
And Gallagher ended up with a new job description as opportunists pounced quickly to make a classic joke involving Wikipedia and its edit function.
