Former Newcastle United star picks five most memorable St James’ Park moments – Interesting | OneFootball

What are your most memorable moments at St James’ Park?

BBC Radio Newcastle asked John Anderson the question.

Obviously decades worth to choose from for the former United defender.

Do they match yours?

Some interesting Newcastle United memorable moments discussed and now BBC Sport have reported on the top five John Anderson choices…

John Anderson’s Fifth place

Newcastle 5-0 Manchester United (October 1996)

“It was a sensational performance – unbelievable.

“It was one of those games where everybody you speak to was there. And if everybody you spoke to was there, then it would have been 150,000 of them!

“That’s just because everybody remembers it so well.

“It was sweet revenge, I suppose, for what happened the season before.”

Fourth place

Newcastle 3-2 Barcelona (October 1997)

“Asprilla and Keith Gillespie were sensational.

“Gillespie’s performance on the night on the right wing was brilliant. He stuck a couple of crosses in that led to a couple of goals.

“Barcelona were a top side at the time and we went 3-0 up but I was very pleased it didn’t go on for another 10 minutes. They hit the crossbar late on as well.

“The atmosphere and the noise that night were sensational. It was uncharted territory for us as and we came up against one of the best in Europe and turned them over. Sensational.”

Third place

Newcastle 4-1 Paris St-Germain (October 2023)

“You look back at the goalscorers and they were not who you’d really expect.

“Miguel Almiron, Sean Longstaff, Dan Burn and Fabian Schar scored that night and we totally outplayed them.

“We were fearless – we absolutely took them apart, and there wasn’t a fault in the performance. And it was so deserved. There was nothing whatsoever lucky about it.

“From start to finish, PSG couldn’t live with the tempo and energy we played with. We deservedly won – and won really well.”

Second place

Newcastle 0 Villa 3 – Kieron Dyer and Lee Bowyer’s fight (April 2005)

“Everybody is watching the game, and then the next minute, the two of them have got each other by the scruff of the neck in the middle of the pitch.

“It’s not something you’d expect to see, and both see red.

“It’s one of those incidents that anybody who was there on the day remembers it so well, because it was so unusual, especially in the modern game.

“I remember leaving the ground; that’s all anybody wanted to talk about, not the fact that we were beaten 3-0 by Aston Villa.”

First place

Newcastle 6 Spurs 1 (April 2023)

“It’s got to be said that Spurs were absolutely abysmal and we punished them every moment.

“It was an unbelievable 20 minutes of football.