7 mins: McLaughlin 1-0

Half time: Dingles 0 Magpies 1

78 mins: James Spray 1-1

79 mins: Airey 2-1

Full time: Dingles 1 Magpies 2

Peter Beardsley celebrated victory, saying:  

“Fergie looked brilliant again last night and it shows that it doesn’t matter whether it’s at Chelsea or at Telford in the reserves against Wolves – he’s got the right attitude.”

“Their attitude was the great thing on the night.

“The players got on well with Alan Thompson last season, but ever since minute one with myself and Steve Stone, they have been a credit. They were a bit unlucky against Chelsea the other week, but their attitude overall has been fantastic and last night from No 1 to 11 it was the same.”

About Phil Airey: “It’s always nice to score goals but his all round general play was great as well.”
 

Wolves coach Steve Weaver commented:

To follow.

Newcastle reserves recovered from last week's narrow home loss to Chelsea by taking all three points off Wolves at the Bucks Head ground of AFC Telford on Monday.

First to show were the Magpies, midfielder Patrick McLaughlin opening the scoring after seven minutes - Phil Airey going on a storming run before slipping the ball to Sammy Ameobi who helped it on for McLaughlin to thump it past Aaron McCarey in the Wolves goal.

United then went close to extending their lead before half time, with Ameobi seeing a shot blocked on 38 minutes. Ryan Donaldson - booked earlier for shirt-pulling - was then upended in the area by Matthew Doherty two minutes later, only for referee Rob Merchant to amazingly rule that the offence had taken place outside the box.

Doherty was yellow-carded, but Donaldson could only blast the resultant free kick into the Wolves wall. And what proved to be the final chance of the first half saw Ameobi force his way into the area before sending a powerful shot narrowly wide of the goal.  

Into the second half and the home side applied pressure on 50 minutes, Ashley Hemmings seeing his header from a corner cleared off the line by Shane Ferguson - the linesman waving away Wolves claims that the Newcastle left back had done so from behind the line.

Wolves continued to press for an equaliser and Mouyokolo came close on 73 minutes, nodding a strong centre from Mujangi Bia just over Ole Soderberg's crossbar. And at the other end, Greg McDermott tried his luck with a curling shot from fully 25 yards two minutes later.

Newcastle then lost the lead 12 minutes from time, only to promptly regain it again. Having just moved across to centre back, James Tavernier's miskick allowed James Spray sight of goal and the Wolves sub pressed forward before shooting home.

Within seconds however, Tavernier had atoned for his earlier error, finding Phil Airey with a free kick that the United striker expertly controlled before slipping under the 'keeper for his second goal of the season.  

Midfielder Michael Richardson then had the chance to make an eye-catching first appearance at this level when Ameobi's shot was parried but skewed his shot horribly wide of the goal within minutes of coming off the bench.

The game was held up when Doherty had to be stretchered off for Wolves - which led to the fourth official indicating a massive ten minutes of added time.

McCarey then kept his side in it, as he made a decent stop to prevent Airey grabbing his second and United's third of the night. However, despite late Wolves pressure there was no further addition to the score, giving Peter Beardsley's side their second away win in as many games this season.

Niall MacKenzie

(The Wolves have been infrequent opponents at reserve level in recent seasons - due both to their changeable league status and differing splits of the Premier League Reserve League North and South Divisions.

Our last visit to Telford came in August 2005, when early strikes from Carl Finnigan and Charles N'Zogbia helped United to a 2-1 success. A year earlier, the sides had met at Molineux with Shola Ameobi netting in a 1-2 loss.

December 2003 meanwhile saw a bone-chilling night at Telford end in a deserved 0-2 defeat for the Magpies, when the only target they managed to hit was when a stray shot from substitute Richard Offiong dislodged the "N" of "UNITED" from the roof of the stand - we don't think that piece of vandalism caused the club to be renamed from Telford United AFC Telford....)

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