1901 sunderland (h)
0-0a
Division One
(P27, 30pts, 7th/18)
30,000 
A crowd estimated by some reports at 70,000 packed into SJP and rioted, after the 25 policemen on duty failed to clear the pitch sufficiently for the match to begin. 

And once the referee abandoned the game without a ball being kicked, widespread fighting broke out and the goals were torn down.

Had the visitors played and won they would have gone four points clear at the top with just three games remaining.

1902 Aston Villa (h)
2-1 (1-1)
Division One 
P31, 35pts, 3rd/18
Stewart(23,68)
Niblo(26)
14,000
Ex-Magpie Tom Niblo marked his return to Gallowgate by levelling after a corner, but fellow Scot Willie Stewart beat debutant Villa 'keeper Harry Cooch for the second time in the match to claim both points.

1904 Distillery (Northern Ireland) (a)
5-4 (2-3)
Friendly 
Orr(1-3,3-4), Aitken(2-3),
Appleyard(4-4pen), Rutherford(5-4), 
Soye(0-1,0-2,0-3),Beggs(2-4) 
4,000
24 hours after beating Scottish side Queens Park at Gallowgate, Newcastle were again in friendly action, this time in Belfast.

The visitors trailed 0-3 at one stage thanks to a treble from Jimmy Soye (who would end up at Gallowgate in 1906 via Southampton).

Unieted staged a revival though and won it, after Distillery's Bill McCracken missed a penalty with the score standing at 4-4.

Within weeks of this game at Grosvenor Park, Newcastle had completed the signing of McCracken from their hosts. 

Across Belfast earlier the same day, the mackems ran out 5-1 winners against Cliftonville at Solitude.

"The four walls of Belfast will today contain the creme de la creme of English, Irish and Scotch football talent" opined The Northern Whig.

Team: Watts, Binnie, Willis, Gardner, Aitken Carr, Rutherford, Howie, Appleyard, Orr, Templeton.

1905 Aston Villa (h)
2-0 (1-0)
Division One 
P29, 40pts, 2nd/18
Veitch(30), Appleyard(78)
25,000
This dress rehearsal for the FA Cup Final ten days later went the way of United, who stayed two points behind league leaders Everton.

The Mayor of Newcastle Alderman J Baxter Ellis was present to open a new club house and dressing rooms at the South East corner of the ground after the game.

1911 Nottingham Forest (a)
1-0 (0-0)
Division One 
P34, 38pts, 5th/20
Higgins(60) 
2,500
Newcastle's progress to the FA Cup Final resulted in this game being brought forward and played on a Wednesday afternoon.

There was a light covering of snow on the City Ground pitch at kick-off and blizzard conditions disrupted the opening half.

By the time the teams turned round though, bright sunshine had broken through. Sandy Higgins netted for the Magpies to push the hosts another step closer to relegation. 

1912 Oldham Athletic (h)
1-1 (1-0)
Division One 
P33, 39pts, 4th/20
Hay(15) 
Woodger(1-1)
30,000

1913 Middlesbrough (a)
0-0 (0-0)
Division One 
P33, 31pts, 15th/20
10,000

1915 West Bromwich Albion (a)
0-2 (0-1)
Division One 
P33, 27pts, 15th/20
Bentley(17,75)
11,858

1920 Aston Villa (a)
0-4 (0-2)
Division One
P39, 40pts, 7th/22 
Wallace(17), Walker(21,67,81)
45,000
In addition to their four goal haul, the hosts also struck the goal frame three times and Clem Stephenson missed a penalty at 0-0.

1924 Birmingham City (a)
1-4 (1-2)
Division One 
P37, 38pts, 9th/22
Aitken(16) 
Linley(27), Bradford(30,60), Crosbie(52)
20,000 
A week after beating Manchester City in an FA Cup Semi Final tie at St. Andrews, United fared rather less well against the hosts at the same venue.

Making seven changes to their lineup, there was a debut for Frank Thompson, at centre forward.

1926 Leeds United (h)
3-0 (1-0)
Division One 
P37, 36pts, 12th/22
Gallacher(36), McDonald(57) Curry(67)  
18,000
The Magpies returned to winning ways after a trio of 0-1 defeats, leaving Leeds in danger of demotion to Division Two. They would ultimately survive by a solitary point.

Leeds 'keeper John Potts did his best to keep the score down - denying Frank Hudspeth from the penalty spot at 3-0. Potts was a native of Ashington and related to "Wor Jackie" Milburn.

1930 Arsenal (h)
1-1 (0-1)
Division One 
P35, 29pts, 20th/22
Devine(85) 
Halliday(7)
36,309
Relegation-haunted United were boosted by the availability of Hughie Gallacher, who turned down the opportunity to represent Scotland against England. 

He had a quiet game though and his side levelled after the Gunners went down to ten men - outfield player William Johnstone going in goal after visiting custodian Dan Lewis was carried off.

While the game was in progress, a turnstile operator at St. James' Park was reportedly robbed of £110.

1933 Everton (a)
0-0 (0-0)
Division One 
P35, 45pts, 3rd/22
20,000
The home side debuted their FA Cup final kit - an all white affair with blue trimmings - and kept their boots clean ahead of the Wembley trip.

1947 Luton Town (h)
7-2 (5-1)
Division Two 
P32, 39pts, 5th/22
Shackleton(19), Stobbart(36,90), Milburn(38), Harvey(40), Wayman(43,87)
Driver(14,76)
40,372 
Newcastle registered a first league victory in four attempts and there were goals for both Joe Harvey and Len Shackleton - recalled after apologising to club officials for going AWOL from the squad base after an FA Cup Semi-Final defeat a week earlier.

1952 Newcastle's Reserve side beat Barnsley 1-0 at SJP in the Central League. The Magpies goal came from forward Bill Tulip, who was never to get a first team chance at the club.

1954 Millwall (a)
1-4 (1-2)
Friendly 
Foulkes(10) 
Shepherd(3,11,57), Hartburn(78)
12,507
United were in action under the Den floodlights on a Monday night as part of the deal that took Alan Monkhouse to SJP earlier that season - and he was given the captain's armband.

The relegation-threatened Magpies fielded a weakened side and were turned over by the Third Division Lions - Johnny Shepherd leading the way with a hat-trick.

Team: Simpson, Cowell, Batty, Keery, Stokoe, Casey, Foulkes, Davies, Monkhouse, Keeble, Punton.

1958 Blackpool (a)
2-3 (0-3)
Division One 
P35, 27pts, 21st/22
Mitchell(47pen), Franks(58) 
H.Kelly(23pen), Charnley(34), Mudie(37)
18,719
Giving Blackpool a three goal start ultimately proved costly for the Magpies, who clawed back two but were unable to find an equaliser.

This defeat saw United tumble three places to 21st in the table - although they had three games in hand over clubs round them.

1972 Ipswich Town (h)
0-1 (0-0)
Division One 
P37, 35pts, 11th/22
Whymark(88)
22,979
Slow handclaps and shouts of "We want football!" came from disenchanted home fans, as Newcastle failed to build on their victory at Derby County 48 hours previously. 

1975 Leicester City (a)
0-4 (0-2)
Division One 
P38, 36pts, 14th/22
Garland(11,67), Lee(44), Worthington(57)
23,132
United's defence conceded another four goals to make it 26 in nine away games - including a brace from Chris Garland, the father of future Mag Peter.

1980 mackems (a)
0-1 (0-0)
Division Two 
P37, 42pts, 7th/22
Cummins(73)
41,752
Newcastle's hopes of extending their unbeaten run to six games and catching the promotion -chasers took a nose dive after they missed a clutch of chances and were then caught out by a Stan Cummins sucker punch.

The red and whites climbed into fifth spot however and would remain unbeaten in their closing seven games to steal second place behind Leicester City. 

This was to be United's last-ever defeat at Roker Park - the next time we lost in the dark place was 2008 at the stadium of plight.

1986 Watford (a)
1-4 (0-2)
Division One 
P35, 55pts, 10th/22
og(McClelland)(81)
Talbot(12), Porter(21), Gibbs(70), Smillie(86)
14,706 
Graeme Taylor's in-form Hornets won easily, despite first-choice goalkeeper Tony Coton missing out with a dose of flu.

His replacement Steve Sherwood endured catcalls from his own fans, but made a couple of vital stops as a subdued United tried to make a game of it after half time.

1997 mackems (h)
1-1 (0-1)
Premier League 
P31, 53pts, 4th/20
Shearer(77)
Gray(32)
36,582
Away supporters were banned from this game as was the case for United's 2-1 win at Roker Park earlier in the season.

Michael Gray's first half goal was belatedly cancelled out by Alan Shearer on his return to the side following groin surgery. 

The visitors included SJP old boys Chris Waddle, Paul Bracewell and David Kelly - the latter getting a fine reception when appearing from the bench in the 61st minute.

Two future Magpies also appeared for the mackems - Lionel Perez and Michael Bridges.

1998 Sheffield United (n)
1-0 (0-0)
FA Cup Semi-Final
Shearer(60)
53,452 
Newcastle just about deserved to win their first FA Cup Semi-Final tie since 1974, but the second-tier Blades had chances before and after Alan Shearer's close-range strike.

Goalkeeper Alan Kelly blocked Shearer's initial header from a John Barnes centre, but was powerless to prevent the striker pouncing on the loose ball in front of Old Trafford's Stretford End.

Victory was a welcome diversion from a winless league run of seven games that left Kenny Dalglish's side languishing in fifteenth.

The Manager commented "they (the fans) deserve better than some of the stuff they've been serving up and a day out at Wembley isn't a bad reward."
 

1999 Tottenham Hotspur (h) 1-1 (0-0)
Premier League
P32, 42pts, 10th/20
Ketsbaia(78)
Anderton(50pen) 
36,655
An FA Cup semi-final dress rehearsal saw a Ketsy special saving our blushes. Future Magpie Stephen Carr had dived disgracefully for their penalty and was accordingly booed when the teams met at Old Trafford six days later. 

Home-grown midfielder Jamie McClen made his senior debut for Newcastle.
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2003 Newcastle sat third in the Premiership, six points behind Arsenal and Manchester United but having played a game fewer than them both. We had 61 points from 31 matches while the mackems were bottom with 19 points from 32 games.

2007 Following away wins at the smoggies and Leeds, the U18s made it a hat-trick of wins, beating their Teesside counterparts once again at Little Benton.

Schoolboy striker Phil Airey scored his third goal in four games to take the points.

2008 Reading (h)
3-0 (2-0)
Premier League
P33, 38pts, 12th/20
Martins(18), Owen(43), Viduka(58)
52,179
Our front three were all on target as we made it three consecutive Premier League wins for the first time since December 2006.

Michael Owen scored in his fourth successive Premier League game while Obafemi Martins and Mark Viduka got the others in a surprisingly comfortable victory at SJP.
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2010 Sheffield United (h)
2-1 (1-1)
Championship
P41, 89pts, 1st/24
Lovenkrands(45pen),
Nolan(73)
Cresswell(22)
48,270
Newcastle began this Monday night live match in the knowledge that Nottingham Forest's 0-0 home draw with Cardiff City at teatime had confirmed a return to the Premier League at the first try.

And although the Blades went ahead to dampen the party, some mindless defending from Chris Morgan gifted a penalty that Peter Lovenkrands converted to tie the scores by half time.

Kevin Nolan then thumped a scissor-kick past mackem-loving 'keeper Steve Simonsen - his 15th of the season bringing up a half century of home goals scored.
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"We deserve to be in the Premier League. 
We didn't last season - but we've earned 
the right to be back there."

2011 The reserves secured a point from their penultimate league game of the season, at the West Bromwich Albion training ground.

Trailing to a Somen Tchoyi goal, a second half equaliser from Phil Airey ended a run of five successive away defeats for Peter Beardsley's side.
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2014 Manchester United (h) 0-4 (0-1)
Premier League
P33, 46pts, 9th/20
Mata(39,50), Hernandez(64), Januzaj(90+3)
52,081
Following a 0-3 home loss to Everton and 0-4 beating at Southampton there was yet more misery for Magpies followers.

In stark contrast to the 1-0 success at Old Trafford earlier in the season, this was a shapeless, aimless, gutless apology for a football team who again went through the motions and were suitably punished.
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2015 mackems (a)
0-1 (0-1)
Premier League
P31, 35pts, 13th/20
Defoe(45+1)
47,563
A fifth successive derby defeat came courtesy of Jermain Defoe's wonder strike, but the lack of guile and fight from Newcastle was all too familiar.

"Where's the next point coming from?" asked interim boss John Carver as did thousands of dispirited Toon fans.
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2017 Burton Albion (h)
1-0 (0-0)
Championship
P40, 84pts, 1st/24
Ritchie(68)
48,814
Having seen his successful penalty conversion disallowed by referee Keith Stroud for encroachment, Matt Ritchie was inexplicably not allowed to retake it as all four officials forgot the rules.

Thankfully, Ritchie later buried a fabulous curler to beat the Brewers, but the officials were later censured for their aberration and suspended for some weeks.
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2023 West Ham United (a)
5-1 (2-1)
Premier League
P28, 53pts, 3rd/20
Wilson(6,46), Joelinton(13,90), Isak(82)
Zouma(40)
62,470
Three days after a stunning 2-0 home win over Manchester United, a sensational five goal salvo saw Newcastle savage the Hammers in their own back yard.

Braces for Callum Wilson and Joelinton - both starters after being on the bench - were added to by substitute Alexander Isak, as the Magpies won a fourth game in succession to further raise hopes of Champions League qualification.
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2024 The U21s defeated West Bromwich Albion 3-2 at Whitley Park in PL2, thanks to goals from Ben Parkinson and Kyle Crossley (2).
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