There were moments when Roy Hodgson simply shook his head and others when he glanced somewhat wistfully at the electronic clock on the stadium scoreboard.
As his Crystal Palace players looked in increasing peril of being completely submerged by the relentless waves of irrepressible, defence-shredding Newcastle attacks, Hodgson must have longed to fast-forward the agonising minutes remaining until the final whistle.
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