JAMES M GOWLAND RECALLS NEWCASTLE’S DISCOMFORT WHEN THEY HAD TO VISIT NON-LEAGUE STEVENAGE BOROUGH IN THE FA CUP...

Full stretch: Boro’s Mark Smith tackles Newcastle star Alan Shearer

EVEN Jeremy Paxman got in on the act by asking on Newsnight: “Is Kenny Dalglish a big girl’s blouse?”
The Liverpool legend and then Newcastle United manager was seeing himself ridiculed by everybody and his side cast as the pantomime villain.
Barely a few years earlier, under the stewardship of Kevin Keegan, United had been everyone’s ‘second team’ but sud...