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31st March 2016
07:21am BST

"Sustaining the injury happened in a split second. The ball was played across the goal and I moved across to get in line. I dived after the ball as I would do in any training session or any game, but I felt pain straight away. Watching it back, I grabbed my knee before I'd even landed. "When I found out it was my cruciate ligament, that's when the tears came. There was a wave of emotion knowing I'd miss the rest of the season with Newcastle and the Euros with Ireland. But you have to let that come, get past it and then look to be positive."The Ireland goalkeeper is not likely to play again until early next season, and with Tim Krul still injured it means that Rafa Benitez is now likely to turn to Karl Darlow as his first-choice for the remaining games of this term.
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