6. Keep Calm, Don't Lose Your Heads
When Spurs' equaliser went in, Newcastle fans could have been forgiven for expecting their team to capitulate, based on the form of former years, and indeed Spurs had looked the better team for a good period before Jermain Defoe scrambled his goal in. But instead Newcastle regrouped, attacked and won a corner almost immediately from which Hatem Ben Arfa duped both Kyle Walker and Rafael Van Der Vaart into fouling in for a penalty. It was a measured approach which Newcastle had taken for most of the game, not forcing the issue too much to allow Spurs to play their own game, changing the tactical slant of the side when Plan A didn't quite work out, and calmly looking for opportunities to attack around the over-stocked Spurs midfield despite some of the crowd's dissatisfaction at the occasionally pedestrian speed. That calmness on the pitch, despite the sometimes erratic display of referee Martin Atkinson, and Spurs early willingness to stop Ben Arfa by any means necessary, was not quite matched by the manager, who reacted to a very obvious mistake by the linesman closest to him by unceremoniously shoving him in the back. He apologised later, but this might cost Newcastle and Pardew in the next few days.