Eddie Howe has provided Newcastle United with a mentality they once lacked

Dearie, dearie me. Stay still my beating heart! Newcastle United are marching to a relentless drum beat and doing it better and better by the day.

Just consider what we have just witnessed. Chris Wood and Bruno Guimaraes both scored their first goals for United when a grumpy Southampton manager believed they ought not have been allowed to play but who cares apart from him!

Neither was a scruffy goal either but a top drawer effort. Wood's was his trademark signature, a powerful header after seven barren games had built tension and doubt. It came from an equally excellent Jonjo Shelvey cross.

Then we were delivered the piece de resistance....a worldie from our new Brazilian whose backheel flick was so outrageous it ought to have carried a health warning. This side simply does not know how to lose when once that was all they knew.

They defended magnificently, they closed down relentlessly, they showed desire beyond the call of duty and how the 3,000 fans who had endured an unbelievable trip to the other end of the country roared their appreciation from first kick to last.

To think that Steve Bruce considered himself badly done to up here. This has been an escape from prison for Geordies and long may it last. United are unbeaten in nine games and have taken 10 points out of the last 12 away from home. Say it slowly and drink it in.

This latest dismantling came against a Southampton side which was undefeated in their last 10 PL home games, their longest run of success since 2005.

Just to make it a night of undiluted joy the Premier League's bottom two clubs Norwich and Watford were both hammered leaking like a colander while Leeds were equally put to the buck at home, new manager or not. Norwich and Leeds conceded three,