Arthur Cox pulled off a master stroke reshaping Newcastle to take the Second Division by storm a few years later. With Keegan and Beardsley, and Waddle getting way better than this in time. I agree about the presentation, with the nauseous tedium of Lineker and co today.
Ahem, it was Chelsea who reshaped their team and took the Second Division by storm in 83/84. Champions with 88 points and 90 goals scored. Newcastle, err... third.
Great run and cross for the first goal , no fancy step overs or checking back and forth . Proper wing play and Colin Lee in for the header ..lovely goal .
Whizz it in FAST from out wide, attack both posts, cause high havoc and bullet one in amidst total confusion. It might even come off a defender, who cares. I grew up on such football, and the heartstopping excitement it provided me. 'Am I not getting this now because I'm an addict?' I thought. But I haven't been since Covid, and I haven't rattled once. I think the context was all symbiotic in the 70s and 80s, football's second summer of love after the immediate post war period c.1946 - 1953. (When they weren't much t'do as it happens)
Newcastle always struggled in London and never suited modelling the "Juventus" white shorts, especially trips to Wimbledon in the 1990s..... Notice Newcastle's No9, a pre-mullet Chris Waddle, looking more like a Beatle....
Excellent football and discipline on and off the pitch. The old Stamford bridge was affordable to watch football, £10 standing on the away end of the ground.
Till late 80's most places on terraces was 3 or 4 quid, that's top flight too. £1 or £1.50 for kids, as I was, turning adult in late 80's get away with kids prices for a few extra years, after all, it was only YTS money we were on, slaving away for peanuts, doing men's work.
A Newcastle team virtually devoid of any football talent whatsoever. This was the story of The Toon for many years but not anymore in 2022. HWTL. A current team with skill, talent and a belief managed by a top class manager in the shape of Eddie Howe. HWTL.
He performed his own operation by 'breaking the hamstring down completely'. What does he mean by this? He's making it sound every bit as gruesome, tough and uncompromising as footballers from those days are often said to have been.
@@michaelroberts7374 He retired immediately after that match. United fans were singing for Whiteside; if only we'd had some awareness of Beardsley's potential-cos Jimmy Murphy did.
They didn't need even more money selling poxy crisps nevermind Licence Fee Payer's cash to keep his past and present wives happy. Jug eared w***er needed to keep it in his trousers. Yes he got us a few vital goals in an England shirt, but that said, he wouldn't have got some of them without Beardsley's skills
