1927 Ajax Amsterdam (Holland) (a)
3-0 (2-0)
Friendly 
McDonald 2, Seymour 
10,000
The fourth of United's six Dutch post-season fixtures saw them face Ajax in their De Meer Stadium.

Some contemporary reports credit McDonald with a hat trick.

1946 BK Kenty (Sweden) (a)
0-1 (0-0)
Andersson
6,700
A post-season tour of Scandinavia that had started with a brace of wins in Norway ended with the third of a trio of losses in Sweden.

1947 Sheffield Wednesday (a) 1-1 (0-1)
Division Two 
P40, 48pts, 4th/22
Hair(1-1)
Ward(33) 
25,000 
Tommy Ward put the Owls in front, but George Hair's first league goal ensured that the points were shared at Hillsborough. It was a vital point for the Owls who still needed one more to be safe.

1949 Ontario All Stars (Canada) (a)
8-2 (1-2)
Friendly 
Milburn 4, Mitchell 2, G.Robledo, Taylor
Davidson, Wallace 
17,000
The second date of United's post season ten game tour of North America saw them christen the new municipal sports field at Toronto's Westend Lake Shore.

1952 Natal (a)
4-0 (2-0)
Friendly 
Davies 3, Mitchell (pen)
30,000
Game three of United's mammoth sixteen date tour of Southern Africa brought them to Durban's Kingsmead ground.

1958 Dinamo Bucharest (Romania) (a)
2-3 (1-0)
Friendly 
Eastham, Scoular
Scorers tbc
Crowd tbc
48 hours after playing out a 1-1 draw with Progresul, United made the short trip from their base in the Athene Palace Hotel to face another side in the Romanian Capital. 

1970 Seattle Seatac (USA) (a) 2-1 (1-1)
Friendly 
Young(39), Craig(73)
Carr(45)
3,000 
The first time that a United first team XI ever won on an artificial pitch was this kickabout at Seattle's Memorial Stadium (admission $2.50).

Manager Joe Harvey admitted afterwards:

"The turf slowed us down. We were unable to play at anything like our normal speed, but the surface is so smooth it does make ball control a bit easier". 

The hosts made innumerable substitutions and used upwards of twenty players. Their goalkeeper also wore glasses on the field.

1977 Everton (a)
0-2 (0-2)
Division One 
49pts, 5th/22
Dobson(6), McKenzie(8)
25,208
An unusually late end to the season (a month later than the previous year) but defeat didn't matter as United's UEFA Cup qualification was already secured.

1986 Peter Beardsley appeared from the subs bench in place of Gary Lineker as England beat Canada 1-0 in a friendly staged in Burnaby, British Columbia.

1997 Magpies midfielder Robert Lee netted for England as South Africa were defeated 2-1 in an International held in the unfamiliar surroundings of Manchester's Old Trafford.

2000 Referee Uriah Rennie was demoted from his Premiership duties after his baffling red card for Alan Shearer and various other blunders during the season. 
cause much....

2001 Shola Ameobi made his first start for England U21s against Mexico at Leicester City's Filbert Street, but was unable to find the net in a 3-0 win. Future club team mate Titus Bramble also appeared. 
 
2002 The agent of Ipswich Town defender Titus Bramble was doing his best to talk up a move to SJP for his client who was nursing an injury at the time. It later transpired that the club were more than happy to listen....

2006 Newcastle goalkeeper Shay Given earned up another Republic of Ireland cap as his side lost 0-1 at home to Chile.

He was joined on the field by Chelsea's Damien Duff, who within two months had become a club colleague of Shay's at SJP.

2006 Michael Owen started his first game of the year when he captained England B at the Madejski Stadium in Reading against Belarus.

Owen was partnered up front by beanpole Peter Crouch in a little and large combination which had almost a foot difference in height.

The Newcastle man played for an hour before being subbed, but the visitors ran out 2-1 winners despite having a man sent off.

2009 Aston Villa (a)
0-1 (0-1)
Premier League
34pts, 18th/20
og(Duff)(38)
Edgar(90-second yellow)
42,585
Newcastle were just one goal and one point away from survival, but to see the way they whimpered out of the Premier League at Villa Park, you'd never have guessed it.

In a second half that simply defied belief, home 'keeper Brad Friedel didn't have a single save to make as Alan Shearer's side gave a clueless, heartless and shambolic display.

To claim that the killer blow - a deflection via Damien Duff - was unlucky would be to ignore 94 minutes of utter tripe that quite rightly resulted in relegation.

However, it was incredibly fitting that United ultimately shot themselves in the foot to deliver that final blow, the fact that it came via one of several misfiring superstars summed up an entire season of own goals.

Manchester United and Chelsea beat Hull and the mackems respectively, meaning we only needed to draw, but it never looked likely as Villa could have cruised to a larger victory - had they bothered to get out of second gear.
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2015 West Ham United (h)
2-0 (0-0)
Premier League
39pts, 15th/20
Sissoko(54), Gutierrez(85)
52,094
Jonas Gutierrez made one and scored one as Newcastle maintained Premier League status on an emotional day at Gallowgate.

Sam Allardyce's Hammers proved to be the perfect opposition, with both he and former Magpie Kevin Nolan about to take their leave and as uninterested as their colleagues (Andy Carroll was injured just for a change).

Two second half goals ensured survival to the delight of interim boss John Carver, although the 0-0 draw Steve Bruce's Hull City side played out against Manchester United meant that the score on Tyneside was irrelevant.

Mike Ashley made an unexpected live TV appearance pre-match, confirming that the club wasn't for sale at any price - regardless of whether it was relegated.
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2023 On-loan Magpie Garang Kuol scored the first goal of his spell at Hearts to earn a 2-2 draw with Rangers at Ibrox.

2024 A-League All Stars (a)
0-8 (0-3)
Friendly
Old(5), Milanovic(25), Taggart(34), Stamatelopoulos(62,74), Hollman(82), Courtney-Perkins(82), Kraev(90+1)
42,120
A shadow Newcastle side were deservedly dismantled by a domestic select XI at the Marvel Stadium in the Australian city of Melbourne.

32 year-old goalkeeper Mark Gillespie led out a rookie line-up with a combined total of zero Premier League starts and they unsurprisingly floundered against an experienced side including four senior internationals.
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