By Dan Barnes

CRUNCH CLASH: Newport’s Mark O’Brien
PICTURE: PSI

Challenges Notts County’s Jon Stead and, inset, celebrates scoring the goal to save Newport from relegation

AT THE end of last season, Mark O’Brien could quite easily have walked away from Newport County having safely establishing himself as modern-day hero at Rodney Parade.
However, that was never going to be the case.
Just four months after arriving in South Wales from Luton Town, the 24-year-old defender carved his name into the history books with the decisive swing of the...