Newcastle sealed top spot in the group with a goalless draw in Frankfurt.

What did you think of the performance? Can we win the tournament? Who do you want to draw in the next round? Have your say.

The heart of this particular correspondent sank when he heard that Portuguese referee Pedro Proenca has been given the task of refereeing our final UEFA Cup Group Stage tie in Germany tonight.

Portuguese referees tend to be one and the same - card happy. We have seen this at first hand on a couple of occasions. In 2003 we went to the San Siro with a real chance of qualification if we could beat Inter Milan. This chance was virtually taken away from us by a display from Lucilio Cardoso Cortez Batista which cannot be described as anything other than scandalous, showing 7 yellows. And more recently, Antonio Almeida Costa took charge of our 1st leg tie with Hapoel Bnei Sakhnin in 2004, showing 6 yellows and 2 reds.

Good job we haven’t got many 1st teamers fit to rack up yellow cards towards a suspension. Or Pedro, you could prove me wrong and be fantastic.

With qualification very much secure, Newcastle’s final task in the priorly anointed ‘Group of Death’ is to attempt to secure a point or more against Frankfurt, to ensure that they meet a side that finishes third in another group in the next round, as oppposed to a Champions’ League dropout.

Squad: Given, Babayaro, Forster, Solano, Bramble, Taylor, Huntington, Ramage, Butt, Emre, N’Zogbia, Milner, Pattison, Troisi, Gate, Edgar, Martins, Finnigan, Sibierski, Luque, Carroll.