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Newcastle United manager Alan Pardew is understood to have torn into some of his players at the Stadium of Light after they lost their second Tyne-Wear derby in a row.

A dressing room inquest is believed to have swiftly followed the 2-1 loss on Wearside – after some players left the travelling Toon Army disappointed by departing the field quickly without acknowledging the fans.

And during the post mortem, which took place just before Pardew’s Press conference in which he was unable to take questions from the local media, the United boss questioned why some of his troops weren’t following instructions to get crosses into the box for Loic Remy and substitutes Shola Ameobi and Papiss Cisse.

All three were denied any quality service as chief playmaker Hatem Ben Arfa often opted to go alone or picked out Davide Santon out wide on overlapping runs.

United’s only real threat came from long-range efforts after Mathieu Debuchy’s equaliser.

After Pardew’s rant, one senior player is also thought to have stood up and told some of his team-mates that there were too many players that were playing for “individual glory” on the day.

Newcastle banned players talking to the local media last week but a source close to the dressing room told the Chronicle: “There was some shouting from the manager afterwards.

“It boiled down to the fact that there weren’t enough crosses going in for the front men.

“And there was emphasis on why Newcastle seemed to be lacking in general team play.”

The heated post-match exchange between some of the players at least shows that Toon stars were bothered about the defeat.

However, they didn’t let the tensions spill into public view with all players heading out of the Stadium of Light in single file and as a group.