Newcastle's abundance of French players (ten?) creates a massive split in the camp.
Villa wounded by the negative headlines of the last week, adopt a siege mentality
and fight back confounding the sage like Savage, and his Salford based chums.
Newcastle head back north angry and defeated, their season is about to get even worse.
Pardew is sacked and heads south, a little less smug but considerably richer.
Until 7.45 on Tuesday, that's what I'm going to day dream about. It sure beats the alternative.