1942 Terence Kelly born, Gateshead.
(1957-62)

Coming to prominence in the club's "N's" (nursery side) during the 1959/60 season, centre half Terry signed professionally for United during May 1960.

Converted to a centre forward and playing for Newcastle's Central League side, he was unable to force his way into the first team  squad level and left Gallowgate in 1962.

Joining Lincoln City, Kelly played alongside former Magpies Albert Scanlon and Albert Franks at Sincil Bank for a season before being given a free transfer.

The Wrekenton native was linked with a return "home" to Gateshead, but signed for Southern League Cambridge United.

That was short-lived though and within weeks he appeared for Rugby Town in a friendly before signing for Stamford. 

Terry was living in Lincoln at the time of his death in September 2020.

1954 Eric Steele born, Newcastle.
(1972-73)

Goalkeeper who was capped by England at U19 level before joining Newcastle from Wallsend Boys Club in July 1972. 

Failing to make a senior appearance at SJP, and impatient at being overlooked by Joe Harvey in favour of Iam McFaul's understudy Martin Burleigh, Steele joined Peterborough United in December 1973, initially on loan.

Moving on to Brighton and Hove Albion in early 1977, Eric made made a triumphant return to SJP in May 1979 as the Seagulls won to gain promotion to Division One. 

Later transfers took him on to Watford, Cardiff City, Derby County, Southend United. Mansfield Town and Notts County before hanging up his gloves during 1989.

Beginning his coaching career back at the Baseball Ground, Steele had spells at Leeds United, Manchester City, Barnsley and Huddersfield Town - working overseas in the close season with his own coaching school in places as diverse as Australia, Belgium, Germany, Holland and the USA.

Returning to Derby County in 1996, a further five years with the Rams followed before a similar stint with Aston Villa. 

August 2008 saw Eric swap Manchester City for Manchester United - via a brief diversion to Blackburn Rovers - and he remained at Old Trafford until May 2013, when he left in the wake of Sir Alex Ferguson's departure.

And by September of that year, he'd made another return to Derby County, assisting manager Steve McClaren.

When the latter was appointed Newcastle boss in June 2015 though, Steele didn't come to Gallowgate with him and instead took a junior coaching role with England.

December 2016 saw Eric agree a short-term deal at Middlesbrough, only to then pick up a knee injury that forced him to stand down until he was able to return to FA work.

1982 Ignacio Gonzalez born, Montevideo, Uruguay. (2008-09)

In the strangest of seasons, the story of this gentleman is perhaps one of the most bizarre of the 2008/09 (or any) campaign.

With Manager Kevin Keegan having gone public to plead for defensive reinforcements, the transfer window closed in September 2008 with two last-gasp arrivals at SJP.

Spanish U21 striker Xisco, made a £5.7m switch from Deportivo La Coruna - while midfielder "Nacho" also arrived from Spain, on a season-long loan from Valencia. Both were sanctioned by Dennis Wise.

However, two things rapidly became apparent - apart from the fact KK knew absolutely nothing about either player.

Although moving to us from Valencia, Nacho had only signed a four year contract with them hours before, having spent six months on loan at Monaco from parent club Danubio in his native Uruguay.

Also, he wasn't fit - and after sorting out his affairs in Uruguay, France and Spain hadn't linked up with United by the time KK quit.

Nacho was named on the bench by Chris Hughton for a home game against Hull City within hours of arriving in England. 

Replacing Shola Ameobi during that infamous defeat, the number 15 shirt was sighted again as a late substitute in the loss at West Ham.

That brought Nacho's Premier League pitch time up to a grand total of 38 minutes - at which point he dropped from view, his unavailability reportedly due to a pre-existing hamstring problem.

No more was then heard of the Uruguayan international (who had won his first full cap against England at Anfield in 2006) for two months, when he underwent surgery on an Achilles injury.

It was only following the arrival of Alan Shearer and Iain Dowie that Nacho was mentioned again - said to have resumed training after recovering from his operation.

However, claims that the player was set to make a reserve team comeback proved to be groundless and Gonzalez returned to Valencia as United were relegated.

Loaned out to Greeks Levadiakos, Nacho was named in Uruguay's World Cup Final squad, playing in a 0-0 draw against France in Cape Town during June 2010.

What proved to be his 21st and final international cap came against Angola in August 2010, by which time he was on loan at Spanish side Levante.

However, Nacho returned to Valencia after just four games due to injury and didn't play again until a permanent switch to Belgians Standard Liege in 2011.

Remaining there until a six month loan to Spanish side Hércules CF in early 2013, he was released by Liege that summer. 

A free transfer to Uruguayan side Nacional in Montevideo followed and he collected a Championship winner's medal in his second season, also earning a contract extension.

July 2016 saw Gonzalez join city rivals Wanderer on a free transfer, remaining there until May 2021 when he returned to Danubio after a 14 year absence.

Nacho confirmed his retirement in 2022.

1998 Aaron Ramsdale born, Stoke. (2025-present)

Goalkeeper signed on loan ahead of the 2025/26 season from Southampton as the Saints dropped into the Championship.

His move followed United's failure to sign long-term target James Trafford, who opted to make a permanent return from Burnley to previous club Manchester City.

Beginning his career as a junior with Bolton Wanderers, Ramsdale moved to Sheffield United and made his senior bow in an FA Cup victory over Leyton Orient in 2016.

Making a £1m switch to Bournemouth in early 2017 during Eddie Howe's time in charge, he spent the following season on loan at League Two Chesterfield and then 2018/19 at League One AFC Wimbledon.

Becoming first-choice for the Cherries in 2019/20, Aaron suffered relegation from the top flight and exited along with Howe.

Remaining in the top flight when returning to Sheffield United, he was an ever-present for the Blades, but suffered a second successive demotion.

That was followed by claimed £24m sale to Arsenal, where Aaron was first-choice for the first two of his three seasons in N5 before losing his place to David Raya.

A permanent move to Southampton came in summer 2024 transfer window, adding a third Premier League relegation to his CV.

First seen in a Newcastle shirt during the home friendly against Espanyol (when he saved a penalty), Ramsdale's competitive bow came in the League Cup against Bradford City.

His Premier League debut then came as a substitute in in a 1-3 loss at Brentford in November 2025, following the dismissal of Nick Pope.

Injury and lack of form saw the pair share pitch time for both league and cup games that season, neither doing enough to truly establish themselves as clean sheets remained at a premium for United.

The last of Aaron's five senior England caps came in 2024.
 

1946 SK Brann (Norway) (a)
7-0 (4-0)
Milburn(3,20), Wayman(4,81), Stubbins(30,47,52)
10,500
Newcastle began a post-season tour of Scandinavia with victory in Bergen; Albert Stubbins supplying a 22 minute treble against a side with players from the Austad club augmenting rivals Brann.

United were forced into an early change when Ernie Brown was unable to continue. George Hair replaced him, as the game was played under Norwegian rules permitting a first half substitute in the event of injury.

Team: Swinburne, Corbett, Graham, Harvey, Smith, Woodburn, Milburn, Brown (Hair), Stubbins, Wayman, Pearson.

1950 England continued their World Cup warm up with a 5-3 win over Portugal in Lisbon. Newcastle's Jackie Milburn was restored to the team but failed to find the net.

1960 Schalke 04 (Germany) (a)
3-0 (1-0)
Friendly 
White(1-0,2-0) McGuigan(3-0)
10,000
The opening fixture of a five-game post -season tour taking Newcastle to Germany, Yugoslavia and Spain was staged at the Glückauf-Kampfbahn stadium.

What sounds like a feisty affair saw United's Gordon Hughes dismissed after clashing with an opponent in the 69th minute.

Team: Harvey, Keith, McMichael, Scoular, Stokoe, Bell, Hughes, Allchurch, White, McGuigan, Luke. 

1965 Holstein Kiel (Germany) (a)
1-1 (0-1)
Friendly 
Anderson(62)
Oenig(43) 
4,000
After three wins, the penultimate game of United's post-season tour saw them held in the North German city of Kiel by the newly-crowned Regionalliga Nord champions.

Team: Marshall, Craig, Clark, Anderson, Thompson, Iley, Hilley, McGrath, Cummings, Penman, Suddick.

1969 Rangers (Scotland) a) 0-0 (0-0)
Fairs Cup Semi Final 1st Leg 
75,580 
This game hinged on a first half penalty save by Willie McFaul from Andy Penman, after the Newcastle 'keeper fouled Orjan Persson to concede the spot-kick.

In a fighting performance, Wyn Davies broke his cheekbone but United held out for the draw, backed by around 12,000 travelling fans. 

1973 sunderland (h)
2-1 (1-0)
Friendly 
Cassidy(1-0), Tudor(2-0)
Guthrie(2-1) 
35,873 
Former Magpie Ron Guthrie netted for the recent FA Cup winners in a testimonial match staged for Ollie Burton.

Before kickoff, promising United goalkeeper Eric Steele marked his 19th birthday by facing a series of penalty kicks.

Among those lining up was Burton (who was unable to play in the game), former Magpies including visiting mackem boss Bob Stokoe and members of the press.

The red and whites brought the FA Cup that they'd won at Wembley days earlier.

Team: Burleigh, Nattrass, Clark, McDermott (Gibb), Howard, Moncur, Cassidy, Smith, Tudor (K.Robson) Hibbitt (Green), Barrowclough.

1977 Aston Villa (h)
3-2 (3-1)
Division One
P41, 49pts, 4th/22 
Cannell(4,24), Oates(15) 
Little(1,74)
29,873 
UEFA Cup qualification was gained by victory in this eventful game, despite falling behind straight from the kick-off. 

Paul Cannell soon beat John Burridge in the Villa goal to equalise, before Graham Oates and Cannell again gave Newcastle the lead.

Brian Little then pulled a goal back, but United held on to take both points.

1983 Wolves (a)
2-2 (2-2)
Division Two
67pts, 5th/22 
McDonald(40), Varadi(43)
Matthews(25), Gray(38)
22,446
Six years on and Burridge had moved from Villa Park to Molineux, taking to the field game dressed as Superman for the already-promoted home side.

The Magpies were notionally still in with the chance of sneaking into the third promotion spot, but a failure to win coupled with a point for Leicester left them three points and two places short. 

1995 Crystal Palace (h)
3-2 (3-0)
Premier League
72pts, 6th/22 
Fox(6), Lee(26), Gillespie(28)
Armstrong(51), Houghton(81)
35,626 
Already relegated, the Eagles bowed out with goals from Chris Armstrong and Ray Houghton to ensure a nervous ending. 

This was the last game at St. James' Park where fans stood on terraces, with the Milburn Stand paddocks converted to seating ahead of the following season.
PL highlights are online here

2000 Arsenal (h)
4-2 (2-1)
Premiership
52pts, 11th/20
Speed(6,59), Shearer(23), Griffin(63)
Kanu(7), Malz(53)
36,450
Alan Shearer netted his 300th career goal against a weakened Gunners side who warmed up for their UEFA Cup Final. Unlikely scorer of the final goal was Andy Griffin although the main TV camera failed to pick up his effort. 

Shay Given almost got on the scoresheet but his counterpart Alex Manninger just managed to tip a long clearance away from goal.
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2005 Fighting talk (aka season-ticket selling talk) from the-then Toon Chairman Freddy Shepherd, with his side 12th in the table on the eve of our last game, against Chelsea:

"If I told you who wants to come to Newcastle, you'd be astounded. Of course they want to come to Newcastle - they all want to come to Newcastle.

"Anybody leaving here, unless they go to Chelsea, is going down. Let's face it, one of the big reasons for Chelsea is the rewards at Chelsea. 

"Fine, I have not got a problem with that and I would probably be the same if I was a player. But where do you go when you leave Newcastle?"

Before the following season we signed Scott Parker, Craig Moore, Albert Luque, Lee Clark, Nolberto Solano... and Michael Owen.

And at the time the latter deal was made public, we can honestly say that Freddy's use of the word 'astounded' was valid.

2007 Newcastle convened a 1pm press conference for the following day, with no-one in any doubt that it was to unveil Sam Allardyce as the new manager.

2013 A 1-4 loss at Arsenal confirmed Wigan's Premier League relegation and meant that the mackems escaped the drop. 

United's safety had been assured 48 hours earlier thanks to a 2-1 victory at QPR in their penultimate game of the season.

2018 A bizarre situation involving a Magpie unfolded at Chesterfield's stadium as Ireland and the Netherlands played an U17 European Championship Quarter Final.

Tied at 1-1 and with a penalty shootout standing at 4-4, Irish goalkeeper Jimmy Corcoran was dismissed after collecting a second booking for moving early.

He was replaced by Newcastle defender Oisin McEntee, who was unable to stop the Netherlands netting the winner.  

2021 Manchester City (h)
3-4 (2-2)
Premier League
P36, 39pts, 16th/20
Krafth(25), Joelinton(45+6pen), Willock(62)
Cancelo(39), Torres(42,64,66)
BCD
Having clinched the title without kicking a ball a few days earlier - and reportedly partying afterwards - Manchester City added the record for consecutive away wins to their considerable honours list at SJP.

Far from strolling to that 12th victory on the road though, they encountered a patient and precise Newcastle side who gave a decent account of themselves apart from failing to repel the rapier-like attack of Pep's side.
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2025 3,841 fans saw Heaton Stannington lift the Northumberland Senior Cup for the very first time in their history, defeating Morpeth Town on penalties at Gallowgate.