The Newcastle United goalkeeper hit back at fans suggesting he was congratulating Jermain Defore after the Sunderland striker had put his side ahead with a worldie just before the break.
Shots of Krul smiling with Defoe at half time in the tunnel irked a lot of Geordies but the Dutch man, who has been at St. James' Park for a decade now, insisted that he can't repeat what he said to Defoe because it was anything but congratulatory.
https://twitter.com/danielstorey85/status/584744468361908224
Krul reckons that, if anything, the English attacker was lucky with his strike that won the derby for a fifth consecutive time for Sunderland.
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