Newcastle United goalkeeper Steve Harper admits they were forced to watch their clash against Portsmouth yesterday.

"It wasn't great, but we needed to see it," Harper said. "We looked at the video and had a bit of an inquest. We felt we had to analyse what happened in those 11 minutes. By 12 minutes past three, it was almost like a bomb had gone off. It was one of those days when everything that could have gone wrong did.

"We were totally gutted. The manager was very angry and rightly so. Saturday wasn't great, but it's history now. Thankfully, those days are few and far between and we've identified the things to be worked on. It was as constructive as it could be.

"We've dealt with it and put it to bed. We have to put this behind us because we have a monumental game coming up against Sunderland."