Here are your top Newcastle United headlines for November 5.

VAR explanation Anthony Gordon smashed the ball home and Newcastle United fans went wild. However, the real celebrations wouldn't take place for a further four minutes after as many as THREE different VAR checks to see if the Magpies' opener should be chalked off.

Joe Willock was adjudged to have kept the ball in near the corner flag, Joelinton seemingly didn't foul Gabriel in the six-yard box and Gordon was called onside. The goal stood and Mikel Arteta's fume began.

The Arsenal manager took a huge swipe at the match officials after the game, and with that in mind, will not want to hear VAR's reasoning for the Gordon offside call. According to Sky, officials at Stockley Park claimed they didn't have the correct replay angle available to judge the exact point of contact from Joelinton.

Therefore they could not judge whether Gordon was in an offside position in the seconds before scoring. The officials asked for extra time to review all available footage at their disposal before deciding there was no clear cause for the goal to be ruled out.

Neville and Keown verdict Gary Neville has disagreed with Martin Keown's verdict on Match of the Day and believes it was the 'correct' call to allow Newcastle United's winning goal against Arsenal to stand. Anthony Gordon's second-half strike was the subject of a triple VAR check, and proved enough to edge Eddie Howe's side to a narrow victory over the Gunners.

Joe Willock scrambled to keep the ball in play, with the initial review unable to determine whether Arsenal should have been awarded a goal kick. Joelinton was then deemed to have not fouled Gabriel after David Raya missed the cross, while the final check again could not prove that Gordon was offside as he thundered the ball into the net.

Gunners legend Martin Keown was on punditry duties for Saturday night's edition of Match of the Day along with former Liverpool and Tottenham midfielder Danny Murphy. The former defender was adamant that Gabriel was fouled, and claimed 'virtually everything was wrong' with the decision to allow Newcastle's goal to stand.

Arteta's tribute Mikel Arteta has paid tribute to a 'top team' in Newcastle United but the Arsenal boss reiterated he was 'sickened' by the officials' decision to allow Anthony Gordon's winner.

Gordon scored what proved to be the only goal of the game midway through the second half after lashing the ball into the net. There were a whopping three separate VAR checks to establish whether the goal should have stood.

The first check concerned whether Joe Willock had kept the ball in play before crossing the ball; the second was whether Joelinton had fouled Gabriel when the ball came into the box; and the third and final check was whether Gordon was offside when the forward struck the ball. The checks by the officials at Stockley Park lasted more than four minutes before they gave referee Stuart Attwell the all-clear, which left Arteta furious on a night his side failed to test Nick Pope after going behind - and mustered just one tame effort on target during the course of the whole game.

Racist abuse condemned Newcastle United duo Joe Willock and Bruno Guimaraes received racist abuse online after the 1-0 win over Arsenal with the club vowing to take strong action to identify the culprits. The abuse came in the aftermath of the victory over the Gunners but Newcastle have made a swift response.

Lascelles call vindicated Newcastle United skipper Jamaal Lascelles could have easily walked away from St James' Park in the summer with lucrative offers from Turkey on the table. But the club captain, who led the Magpies out at places like Barnsley and Burton in the Championship, refused to give up on his dream of success at Newcastle.

Lascelles told me shortly after the takeover in 2021 that he still hoped to be the man to lift that first elusive piece of silverware in a whole new era on Tyneside. But for all his hopes of remaining at United, last season was a test of his loyalty and a test of his patience with just two starts in the Premier League with both ending in defeat.

With Sven Botman and Fabian Schar forming an incredible partnership at the back you wondered if Lascelles' days were numbered. Last summer there was interest from Premier League clubs too, but Lascelles snubbed the idea of leaving the club. It was in a stuffy Press conference room in Philadelphia that the plan for Lascelles to stay became apparent.