LONDON: Newcastle United kept alive their slender hopes of winning England’s Championship (second division) title on Friday when two goals in 10 minutes from Christian Atsu and Isaac Hayden gave them a 2-0 win at Cardiff in their penultimate game of the season.

The win put already-promoted Newcastle one point behind leaders Brighton & Hove Albion.

Newcastle had their offices raided on Wednesday by tax investigators for suspected fraud. But they put the off-field problems behind them to win with Atsu scoring in the 55th and Hayden making it 2-0 with a swerving shot.

Published in Dawn, April 30th, 2017