Cherries came long way to deliver this message about following the script...

STANDING well over six-feet tall and with short sleeves and short shorts to stress his muscularity, Joelinton looks every inch a tough guy.

- ANDY DUNN

Justin Kluivert, slight of frame, certainly felt the full, illegal force of the big Newcastle United mid-fielder just before half-time. But if Joelinton, St James' Park and a Toon team on a roll thought that they could intimidate Kluivert and his Bournemouth team-mates, they were badly, badly mistaken.

Momentarily, Kluivert went for Joelinton's throat in response like the Cherries came to town and went for the home side's throat.

Andoni Iraola and his team are no respecters of reputation or size, that is for sure.

This was supposed to be about Newcastle setting records, about 10 wins on the spin, about Alexander Isak.

Not about injury-ravaged Bournemouth, not about a team shorn of conventional strikers, not about Kluivert.

But Iraola is a manager who does not follow the scripts, his team having already beaten Arsenal and Manchester City this season.

And the late strikes from Kluivert, to complete his treble, and from Milos Kerkez gave the scoreline an emphatic look that Bournemouth's performance thoroughly deserved.