Niall Quinn

Because at that point, Mbembe's two legs are embedded on the ground.

He's not flying through the air at that point, still making the tackle.

And here's the referee's view.

He sees it.

He sees him standing big.

He sees him standing tall.

He reaches his leg out and he tumbles over.

And from the referee's point of view, I think he's right.

I think it was no penalty.

But the incident happened and what I would like to say is the defender stood tall, he did not go to ground.

He didn't commit to it.

And I think that made it look better in front of the referee.

Now?

Yeah, normally he'd shoot.

But just look at Mbembe, stands up, doesn't go diving in, puts his leg out, but doesn't go to ground and make an obvious...

decision for the referee and i think it was it was justice because if you would have thought about it having got the offside goal and then maybe got the winner through a dubious penalty then it would have been a terrible night for newcastle the referee's got the second one i guess they balanced it out in a way in a way uh but as it is a point of peace that's how it finished here at st james's park and when we come back we'll get more reaction from downstairs on newcastle one manchester city one

Huge.

That's the point.

The dressing room will be buzzing in there again.

Had Man City nicked that in the last minute, it would be so flat.