00:003-1 down with 13 minutes to go, but then Shearer took over.
00:05Well, they said it would be less exciting under Kenny Dalgleish, but this was pure Kevin Keegan.
00:11A mad mix of glory and despair, all started by Robbie Elliott's third-minute opener.
00:18Newcastle threatened a hat-fall, with Aspira, Ferdinand and Shearer bombarding the Leicester goal.
00:24Casey Keller made sure they only went into half-time, a single goal behind.
00:31Aspira, playing his first game since December, had the Toon Army chanting his name with some extravagant running.
00:37But had Keller not stopped Lee again, what followed might never have happened.
00:42Suddenly, Leicester exposed Newcastle's defensive frailties.
00:45Their recent signing from Oxford, the other Elliott, Matt, headed an equaliser.
00:51Four minutes later, Emil Heskey and Steve Claridge were carving open the Newcastle defence, and Claridge made it 2-1.
01:00Eight minutes after that, it was 3-1.
01:03Heskey enjoyed his freedom, and charged through to score.
01:09Dalgleish was unimpressed with his defence.
01:13One of them, Philippe Albert, lost his cool with the rampaging young Leicester striker.
01:19But when you have Alan Shearer, you have hope, and his free kick would have been heading for orbit, if
01:25the net hadn't stopped it.
01:283-2, and game on again.
01:32Could Leicester hang on, was the question, but with nine minutes to go, the answer was no.
01:37Shearer's second, 3-0.
01:42There was still time for a storybook finish, of course, and in the dying seconds, Newcastle produced the move of
01:47the match,
01:47for Shearer to finish the job.
01:52A 15-minute hat-trick, his first since his £15m move to Tyne side.
01:59A wonderful game, and guess who grabbed the match ball?
02:04For Scud at Sky News.
02:05We've got belief here that we're good enough to win matches, and we should be winning matches.
02:09No disrespect to Leicester, but we should be winning, especially at home.
02:13We've managed to beat Everton midweek with three points.
02:15We've managed to beat Leicester today.
02:17Keeps us in touch.
02:18We're still a few points behind, but we're there or thereabouts.
02:21That's probably the reason why Kevin was going a bit grey and Terry Max White.
02:26They've been here longer than me.
02:27But as I say, it's really exciting, but I'd much rather it was an easy 1-0 than a result
02:35like that.
02:36I think you've got to give him credit as well.
02:38I think we'll take great heart from their performance that we've done.
02:40And we have come here today and put on a performance like you wouldn't believe, I thought.
02:47And we were fantastic.
02:49The crowd kept us going.
02:50We were great.
02:51And there's no point in being, I've just said to the lads in here, three weeks down the way,
02:55people won't remember it, you know, being a great game or anything.
02:59Newcastle have won the match 4-3.
03:01When in all honesty, we thought we'd probably deserve something out of it for her effort, endeavour,
03:06and a bit of skill as well.
03:09So Newcastle stay fourth, but they close the gap on leaders Manchester United to five points.
03:14Leicester out of the picture in 14th.
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