Newcastle 2014-15 Season Review - 20 Stats From The Campaign

Newcastle United supporters will turn up at St James' Park next season in their droves, as they always do - clad in black-and-white-striped replica shirts, cheering their team from the stands at full voice, and daring to dream that they could have a successful 2015-16 campaign. They will hope that things cannot possibly be as bad as they were throughout the 2014-15 campaign anyway, that's for sure. Being knocked out of the FA Cup at the third-round stage was painful enough, but then watching their Magpies side plummet down the Premier League table under John Carver cut deep. It even took a final-day victory over West Ham United at St James' Park to secure Newcastle's top-flight future for another season. In fact, even the promising run to the quarter-finals of the Capital One Cup ended in bitter disappointment as Newcastle meekly surrendered 4-0 at White Hart Lane in mid-December. There was so much wrong - and very little right - about the Magpies' 2014-15 campaign. A ridiculously-high number of goals conceded, a damaging number of suspensions and a club-record Premier League losing run are just some of the most eye-catching statistics from last season. So here's 20 stats from Newcastle United's 2014-15 season - the majority of which reflect the wretched nature of the campaign as a whole...