Magic Magpie Memories: Newcastle United Entertainers 7 – 1 Tottenham Hotspur.
Posted on January 21st, 2011 | 32 Comments |
As a prelude to the morra’s clash with Tottenham, here’s one of the highlights of the Keegan “Entertainers” era involving both teams.
This magificent drubbing actually came after something of a barren spell for Kevin Keegan’s squad, and also after the disappointment of “that” season when we almost cracked it, and Keegan cracked up under the pressure of Alex Ferguson’s psycho-war.
Before this game, The Magpies had actually gone seven games without a win, and the pressure was on to rekindle the flames of another title challenge. Even in the crazy world of Newcastle United during that period, no-one was prepared for what was come as some of The Magpies’ greatest players of recent times, Shearer, Beardsley, Ferdinand et al, did what they did best. Another of those great talents, Daveed Geenola, missed out on the festival of goals that day due to injury.
Kevin Keegan resigned as manager on 7 January 1997, 10 days after this game, so I suppose that it could be looked on as his last hurrah from that period. Though of course, he was to return as manager some years later.
Date: Saturday December 28, 1996.
Venue: St James’s Park, Newcastle upon Tyne.
Teams:
Newcastle United: S.Hislop, S.Watson, D.Peacock, P.Albert, J.Beresford, K.Gillespie (L.Clark 41), R.Lee, P.Beardsley, A.Shearer, L.Ferdinand.
Tottenham Hotspur: I.Walker, S.Carr, S.Campbell, C.Calderwood, C.Wilson, R.Fox, A.Nielsen, D.Howells, A.Sinton (J.Dozzell 45, R.Rosenthal 55), T.Sheringham, S.Iversen.
For a full match report of the game, click here.
For more from our series of “Magic Magpie Memories”, click here.
Aye,
if ya’ watch closely at the end of this clip, there’s a shot of kk looking strangely dejected after a pounding of a great rival.
He’d obviously decided he was off already.
That’s if you can get it to run?
:)