Newcastle 4-3 Manchester United - 2001/02 HD

I'll tell you what a gent Bobby was. When he was still England manager he came to open a new sports complex in my town (indoors 5 a side pitch and some AstroTurf pitches). Our school's football team was chosen to be part of the crowd that met him as he cut the ribbon (think we won the local school's league or cup that year). My mate who was the team's captain had been off school sick for two weeks, but he wasn't going to miss getting to shake hands with Bobby Robson. So he dragged himself out of his sick bed and into school, so we could be taken in the minibus to the new complex. Everybody remarked just how sick my mate looked, he was as white as a sheet. So we're playing a bit of five-a-side as Bobby arrives. We all gather round as he cuts the ribbon to officially open the place. Then form a line so Bobby can say a few words, and then hand us our winners medals (that they'd saved presenting them to us especially for this occasion). My mate faints right in front of him, collapses in a heap on the ground. He'd had what they thought was a chest infection, but he ended up in hospital for a month with pneumonia. So he's put on a stretcher and carried off to the medical room. The mayor and the local dignitaries are about to take Bobby off to a reception at the town hall. But he refuses to go, says he wants to see the lad that's fainted. Goes into the medical room, hands my mate the 🏅 gives him his business card and tells him that when he's feeling better to give his secretary a call and he'll give him and his family some complimentary tickets to an England game. So a few months later my mate gets to go to Wembley to see England play. He didn't have to do that, but he was obviously a genuinely caring man.

@John Sham Bald 20

@Mr. X Barthez wasn't bad:
Reflex 18
Handling 18
Kicking 5
Aggression 19
Eccentricity 20 🤣
#CM

@M T yeh pretty much although not sure there were as many spanish failures as there were french

@Mr. X just like players from Spain a decade ago

@Mr. X gazza is wallsend boys club ..which is were Alan want...Different possitions (crap spelling ) Rooney tho has alot of Alans trates in him..Shearer was the best English stricker

Don't get me wrong he's one of the Prems best ever but not in terms of natural talent. Matt Le Tissier and Rooney would have more natural talent for example

And EPL will always be the best and the most entertaining football league in my opinion...

rooney and gascoigne are on a completely different level for natural talent

As you said better than Beckham or Owen in my opinion. Roy Keane behaved badly a bad example for young players.

@paulie paul you to, thanks

@James Green nice speaking to you keep safe 👍🏻

@paulie paul it is I agree and thank you very much

@James Green i understand what you mean, but it's sad Newcastle never won 🏆 anything with what they had and it surprises me to this day ! anyway up the hammers 🔨 🤪

@paulie paul it’s not sad for him, I’d prefer to play for West Ham and win nothing than city or Liverpool and have a full trophy cabinet

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@TheAsa1972 at that time man united were shit in the toilet. When man united dominated english football in the 90's, english premier league were 3rd or 4th class competition in europe. Way behind serie a, la liga and even bundesliga

@Butterpants1987 man united were nobodies in 1970s and 1980s.

Да, так и было. Сейчас смотрю футбол тех времен и вспоминаю как было интересно. Сейчас футбол отстой

When the EPL was played by MEN not these 1.65 - 5”6 diving cunts

@CleanFawn - Actually the will have the history in the future! Get your head round that!

Bobby was a gentleman, Ferguson was very much NOT that

@JUST ME check his budget at Aberdeen you halfwit - even beat Sir Bobbys Ipswich ; before Bayern and Real ......

@JUST ME you are acting like he was garbage

Fergie is overated wenger had a better record than him with a shitter team and budget check the facts and stats

@D M P put the ball in the mackem’s net O’Briennn O’Brien

Don't forget O'Brien. Any any any O'Brien

Worryingly that's still one of our best back fours since the days of Barton, Albert, Peacock and Beresford. Luckily we had Shay behind them to make up for 50% of their mistakes.

@Ali Kaan thx m8

@XI-JINPONG Sir Bobby Robson the manager of Newcastle

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@Harry Drake Neil Lennon headbutted Alan Shearer's foot...

@netweed09
Yeah, all mouth, no action. Same as he is today.

@Saigonese Tran 🗽 Shearer would too

​@Saigonese Tran 🗽 ​ Doesn't need to m8. That registered

Lucky it was Shearer, Gascoigne would put Keane on a wheelchair 🤣

everyone over 25 is stuck in 2010 because of social media and how it interferes with the brain and the mind's processing of time.

There are hard men and there are nutters. Roy was a hardman but then you have players like Neil Ruddock, Mark Dennis. Julien Dicks, Mick Harford etc...

@FTMJarra I think you mean Mary Whitehouse .

@robert smith not a chance, Billy Whitehurst might have though

@FxGoat he flipped because Shearer called him a "thick irish pr*ck".....that's gospel from the players lounge steward at SJP

@Jakeyjammin who did Shearer give a hiding to off the pitch?? little Keith Gillespie.?? Do yourself a favour man, Bellamy left because of his fallout with Souness, nothing to do with Shearer, and Shearer dropped his arse with Lua Lua as well when Lua Lua stood up to him on the team coach. Shearer kicked Neil Lennon in the head and threatened to drop his country in it by not playing in France 98 if the FA punished him for it. Hard man my arse

Bro football changed we are not in that era again look are the 80s you will notice the game back then were different

Not a Newcastle fan but that wonderful man deserved one last major success, everyone loved and respected him.

Dont think so .They have never been seen on tv at the same time and if you notice never mention each other

@Mr. X Yudi

@Ed no they dont, remember keane saying something about refusing to do punditry with shearer

Apparently they get on fine now.

And the air punch. Shearer would have flattened him.

Keane was all show off, he got manhandled by Viera like a bitch.

That was Keane all over. He continued his Billy Big Bollocks act even as a manager

Shearer was shook, you can tell by the way he walks off

Street fighter Geordie from Newcastle , against him, shearer would have hit him into the middle of next week , he should thank his team mates protecting him.

@Tago Mago beat way to piss off someone, laugh them off

Shearer should have smiled and waved him off the field. That would have fired Keane up even more. Ten stone wringing wet joke of a hard man.

@amadhaun22 Santa Claus.
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@netweed09 What? Who?

@Long Lost Puss Because he's a bell end from birth, simple lol? Which sane person would even try to make reason of that disgraceful vermin?
He threw a punch out of sheer malice, salt and spite because his mother never saw who she gave birth to, that's why he is like how he was.

I've just seen this 'Keane/Shearer incident again on 'Keane's Most Famous moments',[at 0.47/5.27] and Keane had thrown two punches at Alan Shearer,in front of the ref',and the yellow card was knocked from the ref's hand,the first punch thrown,and as the 2nd punch thrown,catching Shearer on the side of his face,the ref' pulled out the Red card to Dirty Dirty Keane,who then,surrounded by teammates,tried to act real hard,again,cos he had 'backing of teammates,but so had Shearer,who did'nt need any help taking Keane down,if needed to.He just stayed super cool and glared at The Sh##thouse, hahaha

Yeah,cos 'Dirty Dirty Sh##house Keane' was a coward,only played the 'Hard man to the crowd,if he had got anywhere near Shearer, Shearer would have snotted him,no problem, but a Great win for the Magpies,anyway,

@GTS Giggs isn't int the top 20 ffs.

Giggs and Henry - the two greatest players in PL history.

I am a 63 year old Australia, "Gunner"I hate them, but I follow them.........anyway when Giggs started that run against Arsenal in that FA Cup final, I just knew the motherfucker was going to score and it was all over. I don't know whether he scored with his left or right foot, didn't that seem important at the time
I started watching the premier after a decades break...and the little mofo is still playing and just as quick and slippery as ever! Hats off to Ryan Giggs, he is up there with the best them

Stuart Pearce, Graeme le saux, john Barnes, Lee sharpe, Julian dicks, Leighton baines, Nicky shorey, Ashley Cole, Wayne bridge, Koralov, Marc overmars. Just a couple.

@Stephen Buffery van persie and robben have got to be up there

He was the joy of anyone who shot at his goal

he loves standing at weird positions when defending FKs doesn't he?

They had a fucking clown in goal, though.

Shearer wouldn't back down from roy keane he was a hard man himself.

Keane was alway the same tbh, he chose his victim carefully. You never saw him try it on with the proper hard men of the era.

He scored some incredible long range goals

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Umbro and then Nike 2002/03 the best ever

@John Buffalo I am 97 Sure but the club also cheated to get out of the Championship. Foreign owners financially doping doesn’t do much to warm the cockles of the heart.

@Andrew Kemp King Power Thailand Leicester City invested in the colleges libraries and city.

@Dante Matches & scorelines in the PL tended to be more unpredictable back in the 90s/00’s. Maybe it’s nostalgia but that’s how I recall it...the title was always Man Utd’s apart from the when Arsenal or Blackburn won it.

I think the matches themselves tended to be more exciting because there was less emphasis on tactics and more emphasis on fighting to win. There was also more emphasis on individuals doing great things and there were no super rich clubs buying all the best players. The football is probably a higher quality these days but it’s far less entertaining. There is also little emotional connection between fans and players and many of the clubs are shells of what they were, owned by nation states or nefarious billionaires with no connection to the local area. It is getting worse - Newcastle has just become one of them.

Predictable in what sense? The teams today can pretty much all upset each other on any given day, back then you could guarantee the winner of the league was one of 2 teams....

@SIMON5 EVANS5 I have seen Quaresma and his many trivela goals and assists. I just prefer Veron's style and technique. To be honest, Quaresma was never really at Veron's level if we're talking about footballing ability.

Then you've never seen Quaresma.

@patrick bateman gaming It certainly looks like it.

@Jay Smith Now City got Tierney in their pockets

@James That's what happens when you've got referees (especially Howard Webb) and the FA in your pocket, and you've also got more money than everybody else.

@glyn hayes good to see man u struggle tho today. Back then man u got away with pretty much everything.

@Kevin Prior i didnt know Newcastle beat them

Whilst holding his knee!😄

@GARY MCTEER looked to me that was the other way round..
Keane was the one sent off

Keane, with brown adrenalin rolling down his legs, telling his mates to hold him back after realising he’d picked on the wrong bloke 😂

looked more arrogant to me. lets be honest shearer would crumble if keane got to him.