Newcastle United On This Day

David Potter

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Newcastle United On This Day recounts, in diary form, major events and magic moments in the history of the Magpies. Such as the great triumphs of the 1900s when three league titles were won, the 1950s when three FA Cups were brought back to Tyneside and the heady European triumph of 1969. Less happy days like relegations and miserable FA Cup exits to lower division teams are also chronicled. Alongside the achievements and matches, great players like Peter McWilliam, Colin Veitch, Hughie Gallacher, Frank Hudspeth, Jackie Milburn, Bobby Mitchell, Bobby Moncur, Malcolm MacDonald and Alan Shearer all appear.Key features- Part of the popular and successful On This Day series which features a number of football, cricket and sports clubs- Includes contemporary and historic images of club legends and from the key events and matches from the club's colourful history- Written by veteran football author and historian David Potter, author of a number of football titles

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• Publié par: Pitch Publishing (Brighton) Ltd
• Date de parution: 27 septembre 2012
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781909178229
• Langue: English

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NEWCASTLE UNITED
On This Day
History, Facts & Figures from Every Day of the Year
All statistics, facts and figures are correct as of 31st August 2012
© David Potter
David Potter has asserted his rights in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 to be identified as the author of this work.
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First published 2012
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CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
INTRODUCTION
JANUARY
FEBRUARY
MARCH
APRIL
MAY
JUNE
JULY
AUGUST
SEPTEMBER
OCTOBER
NOVEMBER
DECEMBER
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
A great deal has been written on the fascinating but sometimes disappointing history of Newcastle United. The chief author is of course Paul Joannou who can rightly claim to know more about his beloved team than anyone else. To his writings I owe a great deal, but there are others as well, notably Mike Bolam, John Gibson, Dylan Younger and Mick Edmondson whose written word has guided my researches.
There is of course in Newcastle itself the fascinating bookshop The Back Page, housing by some distance the biggest collection of football books that I have seen. Newcastle Library has also proved to be very accessible and helpful. I also owe a lot to my old friend John McCue, a lover of Middlesbrough, but always willing to go with me to see Newcastle and whose knowledge of the local area has been very valuable. Finally posthumous thanks are due to the late Marjorie Smith of Cleadon village, a good friend of my wife, in whose house we could stay whenever I felt a trip to St James’ Park was beneficial.
And of course, there are the thousands of Geordie football fans whose knowledge of the game is occasionally quite astonishing. Simply standing and sitting among them teaches one a great deal.
INTRODUCTION
Newcastle United On This Day has been a fascinating book to research and to write. The history of The Toon will always be a fascination, and not only to those who live in Newcastle itself.
There is of course no city on earth that identifies as comprehensively and as passionately with its football team. From the railway line, the stadium dominates the landscape of the centre of the city. That is as it should be, for Newcastle United Football Club defines the identity of the whole area. It remains both a shame and a source of mystery why this team does not do better.
It is no accident that the days when Newcastle dominated the English league in the Edwardian era, and the FA Cup in the early 1950s were also the days that the Toon was prospering. The ships were being built, the coal was being mined and industry was booming. In the early years of the 21st century, a new post-industrial age has been in full swing for the past 30 years, but there still remains the need for a great Newcastle side to emerge. Indeed, there is even more need than before.
Great players have graced the black and white stripes – a mighty half-back line in Colin Veitch, Wilfred Low and Peter McWilliam, tricky wingers in Stanley Seymour and Bobby Mitchell, and in particular prolific strikers in Albert Shepherd, Hughie Gallacher, Albert Stubbins and Jackie Milburn as well as the two in more recent times who performed brilliantly but never won anything – Malcolm Macdonald and Alan Shearer. But the question remains, why don’t Newcastle do better? Why is your author, at the age of 63, rapidly approaching the time when he will be the only supporter with clear memories of them winning something?
Local derbies against Sunderland and Middlesbrough are of course important and a few of them will be mentioned, but some supporters may be disappointed to see that not every “humping” of the Mackems or Smoggies is chronicled in loving detail. This is because it has long been the writer’s contention (from a slightly detached Scottish standpoint) that too much emphasis has been placed by supporters on such games, to the detriment, perhaps, of the club’s broader ambitions in an English and indeed a European context. The points that one gets for beating Fulham and Swansea are just as significant as those one gets for beating Sunderland!
There are of course several themes that repeat themselves throughout the decades – a certain phobia of London, gross, occasionally unbelievable howlers in the transfer market and players who can perform on the field but find it difficult to behave themselves off it.
One constant however is the loyalty of the support, who seem to have an amazing resilience to take all the horrors that following the Toon can throw at them, and still come back for more.This book may help them recall what they or their ancestors were watching or experiencing on any given day of the year.
David Potter
TUESDAY 1st JANUARY 1907
Newcastle open with a fine 2-0 win over Derby County at St James’ Park. Ronnie Orr and Finlay Speedie score before a crowd described as “substantial” and clearly containing more than 30,000.
TUESDAY 1st JANUARY 1985
It’s a Happy New Year for 36,529 at St James’ Park and for Peter Beardsley in particular, as he scores a hat-trick against Sunderland. The score is 3-1 and the points are very welcome for Jack Charlton and his men, for four out of the last five games have been lost.
SATURDAY 2nd JANUARY 1909
Following their 1-0 win at Goodison yesterday, the Toon travel to Leicester Fosse to beat the local side 4-0. Sandy Higgins scores twice, and the others come from Albert Shepherd and Jimmy “Tadger” Stewart. Newcastle are now second in the league and many people’s favourites for the championship.
MONDAY 3rd JANUARY 1910
Albert Shepherd scores four as Newcastle defeat Preston North End 5-2 at St James’ Park. The other goal is an own goal. The half-back line of Colin Veitch, Wilf Low and Peter McWilliam is once again superb.
SATURDAY 3rd JANUARY 1948
Newcastle complete a good festive period with their 4-1 win over Luton Town at St James’ Park making it three wins out of three. The 64,931 crowd are impressed with the hat-trick by Jackie Milburn and the other goal by George Stobbart.
SATURDAY 3rd JANUARY 1970
Newcastle’s first game in the new decade is depressing as they travel to Southampton and go out of the FA Cup. The result is a bitter disappointment to the many Geordies who have seen their team lose 3-0 and at no point look as if they are in command. By chance, they are in the middle of a two-legged tie against Southampton in the Inter Cities Fairs Cup. This result is hardly encouraging.

SATURDAY 4th JANUARY 1896
Newcastle have a bad day defensively at Hyde Road, Manchester, as they lose 5-2. Willie McKay and Malky Lennox score for Newcastle, but the team, having played well in the first half to keep the score to 3-2, are overwhelmed in the second.
WEDNESDAY 4th JANUARY 2012
Newcastle get 2012 off to a great start with an impressive 3-0 victory over Manchester United at St James’ Park. A packed arena on a wet and windy night sees a “route one” goal from Demba Ba, a tremendous free kick from Yohan Cabaye and a late own goal.
WEDNESDAY 5th JANUARY 2011
42,387 are very encouraged by a fine performance at St James’ Park as West Ham United are defeated 5-0 with a hat-trick from Leon Best and one each from Kevin Nolan and Peter Lovenkrands. This puts Newcastle eighth and new manger Alan Pardew is delighted.
FRIDAY 6th JANUARY 1984
Newcastle are doing well in the second division, but a serious reality check is handed out at Anfield in the FA Cup. Liverpool deliver a 4-0 thumping and frankly, the Toon are not really in it.
SATURDAY 7th JANUARY 1989
Arguably one of the worst ever games at St James’ Park in the FA Cup ends goalless against Watford, who are in the second division and Newcastle are fast heading in that direction. “The Bald Eagle” Jim Smith has recently been appointed manager. He clearly has problems on his hands.
MONDAY 7th JANUARY 1997
Shock news rocks the football world, as out of the blue, Kevin Keegan resigns as manager. The decision mystifies supporters and pundits for Newcastle are going well in the Premiership and are still in the FA Cup and Uefa Cup. He was disappointed to lose the Premiership last year but his resignation is at odds with the way he kept mouthing “next year” to the fans.
SATURDAY 7th JANUARY 2006
A dreadful performance in the FA Cup third round against Mansfield is redeemed by a late Alan Shearer goal and a 1-0 win. 41,459 at St James’ Park are not impressed.
SATURDAY 8th JANUARY 1927
Hughie Gallacher scores a hat-trick before half-time as Newcastle start their FA Cup campaign by beating Notts County 8-1. Tommy McDonald also scores a hat-trick with the others coming from Stan Seymour and Tommy Urwin. It is a tremendous performance and much appreciated by the 32,564 crowd.
SATURDAY 8th JANUARY 1955
Newcastle go on a long trip to play Plymouth Argyle in the third round of the FA Cup. A surprising amount of the 28,685 crowd have travelled from Newcastle in midwinter to watch their team. They are rewarded when Vic Keeble scores the only goal of the game.
SATURDAY 8th JANUARY 2011
To the long list of Newcastle failures in the FA Cup must now be added Stevenage who can hardly believe they have won 3-1. The small ground can hold only 6,644 but the game is televised. Thus the whole Geordie natio