1965 Aalborg (Denmark) (a)
2-1 (2-0)
Friendly 
Robson(3), Cummings(13)
Flou(70) 
3,000
Over three weeks after the end of the league season, Newcastle rounded off their five match tour in Denmark following a quartet of friendlies in Germany.

With the score at 2-0, John McGrath saw his 35th minute penalty kicked saved by the home custodian, Poulsen.

Team: Marshall, Craig, Clark, Anderson, McGrath, Iley, Robson, Hilley, Cummings, Penman, Suddick. 

1967 Bournemouth & Boscombe Athletic (a)
4-1 (3-0)
Friendly 
Bennett(15,24), Davies(40), Robson(70)
Rowles(51) 
4,039 
United travelled to Dean Court to play a benefit game for their recently-deceased old boy Dick Keith.

Cherries goalkeeper Roger Jones would join Newcastle almost a decade later, while the home side's goal came from substitute Eddie Rowles - a 15 year-old apprentice.

While on the South Coast, United attempted to complete the signing of Don Rogers from Swindon Town, but talks between Stan Seymour, Joe Harvey and Town boss Danny Williams ended with no agreement on a fee.

1969 Liverpool (h)
1-1 (1-0)
Division One 
44pts, 9th/22
Davies(2) 
Hunt(68)
34,927
Last league game of the season but the second leg of the Fairs Cup semi-final was just four days away.

1975 Frustration for Newcastle striker Malcolm Macdonald again as Pat Jennings defied England in a 0-0 draw in Belfast.

1976 North Shields (a)
2-4 (2-2)
Friendly 
Burns 2 
Gibb 2, Porterfield, Carney
2,000
A charity kickabout at Appleby Park saw Newcastle include special guest Tony Green appear once more in black and white.

Some familiar faces also appeared for the Robins, with ex-Magpie Tommy Gibb netting twice against his former side.

Fellow SJP old boys Frank Clark, John Cowan and Dave Hilley also featured while Geoff Nulty was unable to play for United due to injury, but turned up to referee a junior kickabout before the main event.

Team: Mahoney, Nattrass, McCaffrey, Blackhall, Kennedy, Green, Maclean, Hudson, Burns, Gowling, Guy.
 
1984 Liverpool (h)
2-2 (1-2)
Friendly 
Keegan(25pen) McDermott(61) 
Robinson(11), Souness(38)
36,722
Billed as "Keegan's Farewell", this was actually a benefit match for the club, not him.

He equalised from the penalty spot following a Craig Johnson handball, while United's second leveller came from his pal Terry McDermott, who volleyed past Bruce Grobelaar at the Gallowgate End.

Following the final whistle, KK was whisked away by a helicopter that landed briefly on the centre circle.

Among those who cheered his departure was a young NUFC ballboy named Alan Shearer.

Youtube footage is online here

1986 Peter Beardsley scored his first goal for England during a 3-0 friendly win over Mexico in the Los Angeles Coliseum.

It was a fourth cap for the Newcastle player, who was joined on the field by former and future Magpies Chris Waddle, Kenny Sansom and John Barnes. He netted on 37 minutes.

1988 Trinidad & Tobago (a)
0-1 (0-1)
Friendly 
Skeene(14)
8,000
United began a two match tour of the West Indies with defeat at the Queens Park Oval in Port of Spain, before moving on to Jamaica for another kickabout.

New signing John Robertson debuted but the Magpies were without Mirandinha. Physio Derek Wright played and 43 year-old coach John Pickering was on the bench!

Dexter Skeene scored the only goal for the home side, for whom Dwight Yorke and Russell Latapy featured. 

The former would move to Manchester United, while the latter went on to have a career in Scotland with Hibernian, Rangers, Dundee United and Falkirk.

Team: Kelly, Cornwell, Bailey, McCreery, P.Jackson, Scott, D.Jackson, Coxall,  Stephenson, Wright, Robertson. Sub n/u: Pickering.

1997 Newcastle's Les Ferdinand guested for Coventry City in a benefit for David Busst, who had been forced to retire following a serious leg injury at Old Trafford in 1996.

A 23,325 sell-out crowd were at Highfield Road to see former Magpie Paul Gascoigne net in a 2-2 draw with Manchester United.

1997 Newcastle boss Kenny Dalglish returned to his old club Blackburn Rovers for goalkeeping coach Terry Gennoe, replacing the outgoing Peter Bonetti.

2004 In the wake of Newcastle's fifth place finish, Chairman Freddy Shepherd said:

"We are all in this together and the players are disappointed at what has happened this season, and so am I and the manager - and I am sure the supporters are very, very disappointed.

"We have had a good season in the UEFA Cup, but as far as the Premiership is concerned, three points out of 18 at the start of the season and three out of the last nine is just not good enough.

"I'm not happy that we're not in the Champions League qualifiers and I don't suppose the supporters are. But at least being in Europe next season gets us back on track.

"We will leave it a couple of days until the dust settles on last season. We know what we have to do, but we won't panic and what we have to do first is to make sure we have a steady ship.

"There is absolutely no chance of us doing a Leeds United, I can assure our fans of that."

2005 Graham Souness did his best Perry Mason impression when speaking to the Chronicle:

"Craig Bellamy can never play for me again. I still believe I couldn't have handled the situation with him any differently from the way I did.

"Craig Bellamy had scored seven goals up to the start of the new year and he was probably on schedule to score more goals for this club than he had before in any one season.

"But since he left, our dressing room is a healthier place. At the end of the day, the club is not here for the benefit of any one individual.

"The only player I have fallen out with here is Craig Bellamy. Yes, Laurent Robert isn't happy because he's not in the team every week but I don't expect any player not in the team to be happy.

"I pick players on how they train and how they play in matches. I cannot fall out with people because our personalities are not matched. I have to be far bigger than that. That's not what management is about.

"Who are these players I'm supposed to have fallen out with? Andy Cole? I rest my case. David Dunn? I rest my case. Craig Bellamy? I rest my case. Andy Todd? I rest my case. Dwight Yorke? We only fell out once at one training session.