Newcastle legend Alan Shearer was thoroughly unimpressed by the Magpies in their ‘awful’ 3-1 defeat to West Ham on Sunday afternoon.

Eddie Howe took his team to east London for a Premier League clash and things started perfectly for the visitors.

Jacob Murphy put Newcastle ahead after just four minutes, but things went downhill for the Champions League side from there.

Lucas Paqueta equalised on 35 minutes, with Sven Botman scoring a disastrous own goal just before half-time.

Newcastle could not create much at all as they looked for an equaliser of their own and the Hammers appeared the more threatening, eventually scoring the fourth goal of the game.

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It was Tomas Soucek who got West Ham’s third, prodding home a rebound from a Nick Pope sav

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