Kevin Keegan

[High Five o]

He was, even in the second tier, a bigger icon that Super Mac and Quinn, our later modern day super heroes and number 9s. Being black made him even more of an icon as he was the first and only (at the time) true black football superstar for NUFC.

 

You're clearly too young to remember Tony Cunningham then.

 

True superstar with 4 goals 

 

(According to wiki)

[Guest The Little Waster]

https://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2017/aug/11/kevin-keegan-liverpool-hamburg-40-years-ago-revolutionary-transfer

 

Reminisce

[Guest The Little Waster]

 

When we had real hope

[Tsunami]

Am I reading correctly that HTT reckons Cole was a bigger hero than Supermac and mentioned Quinn along with Supermac?

 

As much as Cole was loved Supermac was on a completely different level of hero worship. I've never seen power and pace like it.

[Guest firetotheworks]

I love hearing descriptions of players that I didn't get to see. My lass's old man's great at it, he decribed Supermac as being as fast as Walcott and as strong as Drogba, and that Tony Green was 'hard to describe but the nearest I can get is a faster, skinnier more skillful Beardsley' which obviously sounds incredible.

[Gosforth Lad]

Everything Newcastle are as a modern day club is down to Keegan in my humble opinion; his influence on revolutionising the club is that great (though he shouldn't have disbanded the reserves!). Growing up in that era was immense.

 

[Guest firetotheworks]

The bloke's statue is the club itself.

[Cronky]

I love hearing descriptions of players that I didn't get to see. My lass's old man's great at it, he decribed Supermac as being as fast as Walcott and as strong as Drogba, and that Tony Green was 'hard to describe but the nearest I can get is a faster, skinnier more skillful Beardsley' which obviously sounds incredible.

 

Pretty good descriptions of both players, though I'd add that Supermac wasn't the most skilful on the ball. He was limited in that way.

[HaydnNUFC]

[Tooj]

https://thesetpieces.com/features/remembering-newcastles-historic-5-0-win-man-united/

[Altamullan]

Great article and what a day!

[Guest]

“There was always a build-up when there was a big game and at that point we were rivaling Manchester United. The whole country were talking about us, we had three thousand [watching] training, the city was buzzing.

 

I was always gutted I never managed to watch them train when I was kid. Imagine being able to go and watch them train man. It still seems odd that they trained on that bloody field.

[Guest firetotheworks]

I still remember going to the Odeon to watch matches because you couldn't get tickets. It's mad to think of the untapped potential that the city has when it has anything even approaching a successful football team.

[Guest]

I forgot all about that! 

 

Another life time, reality & dimension now. Amazing what pride can do.

[Disco]

Remember getting the most uninspiring collection of autographs the time I went down to Maiden Castle like. Proper gutted.

[Guest firetotheworks]

Remember getting the most uninspiring collection of autographs the time I went down to Maiden Castle like. Proper gutted.

 

Visions of Mike Hooper trying to sign your ball, fumbling it, and then slowly sitting down as it trickles past him.

[AyeDubbleYoo]

My Mam washing all the signatures off my maroon training top will haunt me forever.

[Kanj]

Gah, why in the living fuck did Kenny dismantle that team?

[Guest]

Remember getting the most uninspiring collection of autographs the time I went down to Maiden Castle like. Proper gutted.

 

Chris and Matt Holland

Paddy Kelly

 

I was going to say Andy Griffin, but I thought he was class. 

[Cheshire Mag]

Remember getting the most uninspiring collection of autographs the time I went down to Maiden Castle like. Proper gutted.

 

Visions of Mike Hooper trying to sign your ball, fumbling it, and then slowly sitting down as it trickles past him.

 

Explains where Harper got it from then.......

[Scoot]

“There was always a build-up when there was a big game and at that point we were rivaling Manchester United. The whole country were talking about us, we had three thousand [watching] training, the city was buzzing.

 

I was always gutted I never managed to watch them train when I was kid. Imagine being able to go and watch them train man. It still seems odd that they trained on that bloody field.

 

I went down loads of times.

 

Used to take my merlin sticker collection book with me and get each player to sign their sticker.

 

I hope that sticker book is in the loft.

[ED209]

Remember getting the most uninspiring collection of autographs the time I went down to Maiden Castle like. Proper gutted.

 

I used to work at Durham uni around that time and we used to play 5 a side at maiden castle a couple of lunchtimes each week. The end of our games used to coincide with players leaving after training. During the school holidays I was asked for my autograph many times when heading back to work!

[Disco]

class.

[Guest]

Remember getting the most uninspiring collection of autographs the time I went down to Maiden Castle like. Proper gutted.

 

I used to work at Durham uni around that time and we used to play 5 a side at maiden castle a couple of lunchtimes each week. The end of our games used to coincide with players leaving after training. During the school holidays I was asked for my autograph many times when heading back to work!

 

I hope you did it. 

[rnmag]

Remember getting the most uninspiring collection of autographs the time I went down to Maiden Castle like. Proper gutted.

 

Chris and Matt Holland

Paddy Kelly

 

I was going to say Andy Griffin, but I thought he was class. 

 

You have to be class to slot one past Buffon in the Champions League!