Sheffield Wednesday (h) Premiership
| Date: Sunday 19th September 1999, 3.00pm
Venue: St. James' Park |
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Newcastle |
Sheffield Wednesday |
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8 - 0 |
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| Half time: | 4 - 0 | |
| Score Sheet: | ||
(11) Hughes
(30) Shearer
(33) Shearer(pen)
(42) Shearer
(46) Dyer
(78) Speed
(81) Shearer
(84) Shearer(pen)
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Teams |
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Harper Barton Goma Hughes Domi Lee Speed Solano Dyer Ketsbaia Shearer |
Pressman Newsome Thome Walker Nolan Donnelly Sonner Alexandersson Rudi De Bilde Booth |
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| Substitutes: | ||
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(64)
Robinson for Dyer |
Carbone
for Booth (28) Haslam for Rudi (64) Sibon for Donnelly (84) |
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| Subs not used: | ||
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Wright Beharall |
Srnicek O'Donnell |
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| Bookings: | ||
| None |
Alexandersson
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| Dismissals: | ||
| None | None | |
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Referee: Neale
Barry (Scunthorpe) |
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Attendance:
36,619 - The Owls made their most pitiful
migration in many years - sporadically scattered around the away corner and
trudging off home in the main when the sixth went in.
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Goals |
11 mins: Aaron Hughes header 1-0
30 mins: Alan Shearer shot 2-0
33 mins: Alan Shearer penalty 3-0
42 mins: Alan Shearer shot 4-0
Half time: Magpies 4 Owls 0
46 mins: Kieron Dyer header 5-0
78 mins: Gary Speed header 6-0
81 mins: Alan Shearer shot 7-0
84 mins: Alan Shearer penalty 8-0
Full time: Magpies 8 Owls 0
We Said |
Sir Bobby said:
"8-0 is a big score, it's beyond my wildest dreams and beyond expectations
I would have thought.
"I thought it would have been a close game....I'd have settled for a 2-0
win or perhaps a 2-1....but we've run riot in the end.
"I said to the players one thing before the match, do you want to play
football, do you want the ball? Show me that you want the ball, and of course
they did.
"I hope we've not created a position for ourselves where that's expected
every week. Actually we didn't start that well. We were apprehensive and I
didn't expect that.
"It's a start but it's not the end. Now we can begin to work. Now we can
begin to improve. We must not underestimate the fragile position we are in.
"The biggest win I had in club management was 7-0 against
Southampton when I was at Ipswich."
Alan Shearer:
"I've never scored four goals in a match before, never mind five.
Bobby said to me at half-time that if I got six he'd buy me a Mars bar.
I'll have to get my own now!
"We must not get carried away. I'm sorry to bring everybody down to
earth: it's only three points.
"He has put in a hell of a lot of work. He understands people, he's
got everybody playing with a smile on their face."
They Said |
Danny
Wilson said:
"This
has been the most humiliating and embarrassing day of my career. The
senior players have to take responsibility. They let themselves
down."
On the chances of keeping his job:
"That's something I cannot
answer, but I'm a realist and there is an enormous amount of pressure on
the board and the chairman particularly.
"Hopefully I'll have the chance to turn
it round....as far as I'm concerned, I'm
sticking in there. But I'm a realist. I can't keep getting results like
that and keep getting the support I've had."
Stats |
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Waffle |
It proved to be eighth time lucky on Sunday for Newcastle, as
they secured maximum points for the first time this season and provided
Bobby Robson with a memorable first home game in charge.
The new manager's introduction to the crowd before kick off compared very
favourably to the welcomes afforded to Kenny Dalglish and Ruud
Gullit.
The volume might have been lower due to the number of late arrivals making
their way to their seats, but the warmth of feeling being showered on
Bobby was something special; cheering and applause lapping like huge waves
at the toes of the new boss - whose humility was refreshing.
The game actually got off to a dreadful start for the home side; messrs
Hughes, Harper and Goma doing their best to hand the advantage to
Sheffield Wednesday and only luck, poor finishing and a linesman's flag
preventing the unthinkable after Andy Booth put the ball past Steve
Harper.
However any negativity was soon swept away by the unlikely combination of
Kieron Dyer and Aaron Hughes. The former wove his own brand of magic down
the United left and sent over an inviting cross for the latter to head
down into the corner and claim the first senior goal of his career.
Another Dyer cross found the outside of Shearer's boot and a fine angled
flick made it 2-0, before Barton's centre struck Emerson Thome's hand,
Wor Al crashing the spot-kick high into the net.
Temuri Ketsbaia looked to have over-hit a crossfield ball to Dyer - who
had just received treatment on an injured ankle - but he was equal to the
task and headed it forward before whipping a ball over from the left
flank. The Owls defence stood and admired, while Shearer stole in ahead of
Des Walker to complete an 11 minute treble with a first time finish from
the edge of the six yard box.
4-0 at half-time and newspaper editors already had their back pages
written. Typically, the break signals the end of goal gluts as momentum is
lost and the hapless victims re-group under the guise of "playing for
a bit of pride".
All thoughts of that were instantly dispelled though, as Gary Speed
dribbled (basketball-style) into the box. And as the ball was half
cleared, a Shearer nod back was turned into the Leazes End net by
the stooping Dyer. Here we go again.
The visitors did manage to stem the flow of goals for over half an hour
but the tide was not for turning. Speed bettered Hughes' opening header
with a Ferdinand-like leap and the inside of the post aided the ball's
passage into the nylon netting.
Goalkeeper Kevin Pressman then gifted Shearer his fourth of the afternoon
after Nolberto Solano delivered a free kick into the box from the right, a
punch to the feet of the England striker as he lurked on the penalty spot
seeing Wor Al return it into the net without further ado.
As 7-0's just never seem to happen, the inevitable Sheffield consolation
seemed due. Substitute Paul Robinson had other ideas though as he made the
most of a lazy challenge to present Shearer with another 12 yard kick -
although the young Magpie made a vain attempt to take it himself.
Low and hard to the keeper's right secured the incredible eight goal haul
and Shearer had his five, to equal Andy Cole's Premiership record
(Manchester United 9 Ipswich Town 0 in 1995). Not bad for a player who
couldn't even get into the starting lineup for our last home
game......
The full whistle brought closure not only to this remarkable victory, but
also in consigning that rain-soaked derby defeat last time out to the
dustbin of history - an awful epilogue to Gullit's reign.
Three points for Bobby left his side second bottom of the table and one
place above Danny Wilson's side, but the difference between the two
managers and their situations couldn't be more different.