Home comforts can revive Toon

FLAGGING SQUAD NEED REACTION ON TYNESIDE

- lan Murtagh

WOR Flags have promised one of their most spectacular displays yet when battle-worn Newcastle face AC Milan tomorrow night.

And the Toon Army have been urged to crank up the volume for the do-or-die Champions League clash, which Eddie Howe's side have to win to make the knockout stages.

Newcastle's form at St James' Park is in stark contrast to their troubles on the road, cruelly demonstrated in Sunday's thrashing the hands a 4-1 at of rampant Tottenham.

But head coach Howe, right, knows his side are a different beast on home soil, saying: "Our home form bedrock of what we've been doing." is the The statistics back up his claim. In the Premier League, Newcastle have seven wins from eight home games, the only defeat coming against leaders Liverpool in August.