Welcome to live coverage of the Premier League match between Newcastle and Sunderland at St James's Park.

Krul claims the set piece with authority. The Dutch keeper has really improved since breaking into the Newcastle team last season.

Adebayor holds the ball up before laying it off for Scott Parker. The former Newcastle man's shot is speculative, but it takes a deflection and Spurs have another corner.

Bale twists and turns near the corner flag and Gutierrez tracks back to help out and concedes a corner. Spurs play the short routine, which doesn't work, but they manage to keep the pressure on.

Demba Ba tussles with Younes Kaboul and draws the foul on the halfway line. Kaboul was sent off for Spurs when they beat Newacastle 2-0 at White Hart Lane last December.

Gareth Bale is popping up on the right wing for Spurs. He sneaks the ball into Adebayor's feet inside the box but the ball ends up in Tim Krul's hands.

Spurs defend the set piece and Assou-Ekotto plays forward up to Van der Vaart, who was offside.

Adebayor drops deep to take Brad Friedel's long kick on his chest. Fabricio Coloccini tracks him and makes a great tackle. In the ensuing battle for the loose ball Newcastle win a free-kick.

Emmanuel Adebayor lets Benoit Assou-Ekotto's pass run through the box to Rafael van der Vaart. Ryan Taylor makes the tackle and gets the wind knocked out of him as he collides with the Dutchman.

Jonas Gutierrez makes a great job of turning defence into attack with a single pass, but Leon Best fails to find a team-mate.

Newcastle kick off and get this show on the road!

The two teams are heading on to the pitch now. There is a warm hug between French duo Yohan Cabaye and Younes Kaboul as they leave the tunnel. We'll be underway in moments...

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Newcastle can move to within a point of third-placed Chelsea with a win this afternoon, while Spurs can go above Liverpool and into fifth with a victory on Tyneside.

Newcastle boss Alan Pardew believes that Spurs have set the blueprint for how he can take his own team on to bigger and better things: They have bought some very good young players and they have taken their time to build and are in a fine financial position. That's what we are trying to do, but we are much earlier down the line than they are now. The start of their process was probably about five years ago."

Harry Redknapp has made himself a popular man with Newcastle fans this week by saying he

The club have scored and conceded in each of their last seven PL visits to the North-east. They have won only one of their last nine visits – 3-1 at Sunderland in February.

Alan Pardew has also won only one of his six PL matches against Harry Redknapp – his Charlton side winning 1-0 at Redknapp’s Portsmouth on January 20, 2007. However, he is unbeaten in his last seven PL matches against fellow English managers – his last defeat against one was the 2-0 defeat to Redknapp’s Tottenham in December 2010.

These teams have met 34 times in the Premier League. Newcastle have won 16, Tottenham 13 and there have been five draws.

NEWCASTLE: Krul; Simpson, S Taylor, Coloccini, R Taylor; Obertan, Cabaye, Tiote, Gutierrez; Best, Ba... Subs: Elliot, Santon, Gosling, Marveaux, Ben Arfa, Lovenkrands, Shola Ameobi. /// TOTTENHAM: Friedel; Walker, Kaboul, King, Assou-Ekotto; Modric, Livermore, Parker, Bale; Van der Vaart; Adebayor... Subs: Cudicini, Bassong, Rose, Giovani, Townsend, Defoe, Pavlyuchenko.