Newcastle United 2 Sunderland 0
MURPHY'S Law says that anything that can go wrong, will go wrong.
And Sunderland fell victim to it with a vengeance at the weekend - not that it will ease the pain of derby defeat on Wearside.
Right from the moment that key defenders Jonny Evans and Phil Bardsley picked up training-ground injuries on Friday, Roy Keane's plans were thrown into disarray.
All he could do was call upon the ring-rusty duo of Paul McShane and Danny Higginbotham - who had not played a first-team game for 12 weeks and seven weeks respectively - to fill in, and Sunderland paid the price.
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