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BBC News
08-08-2025
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- BBC News
'Newcastle United became the tether that kept me rooted there'
You have been sharing your stories and photos about why you love is a final selection of your submissions, but do make sure you scroll down this page to see all the best responses from throughout the week: Howard: I've been a supporter since 1965. In 1968, I was appointed first cashier at Lloyds on Newgate Street where Newcastle United banked. Every home game we would go to the ground to collect the takings from the gate men.I have many stories around this, including how we came to almost lead the players out for the first leg of the Fairs Cup Final. After they won the cup, Bobby Moncur came to the branch with the cup as the club felt they needed to improve security and asked that we hold it for safekeeping and handed the cup to me. No selfies in those days. John: I was born in North Shields, but moved away when I was three. Newcastle United became the tether that kept me rooted there, no matter the distance. My first ever football match wasn't even at Newcastle but hiding within the home fans at the City Ground in Nottingham. My dad was praying that eight-year-old me would keep quiet when Shearer put away a penalty right in front of us. We made it through undetected, a win for the Toon in our memory, and shared a laugh on the way home at our 'secret mission'.
BBC News
04-08-2025
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- BBC News
Newcastle United 'part of our DNA'
We know the relationship between a football fan and their club is a special one so, as we gear up for the new season, we asked you to share why you fell in love with Newcastle and some of your favourite moments supporting are some of your submissions: Paul: I'm 68 years old this year and I have been lucky to see the Toon lift silverware twice. For the final of the Fairs Cup, I was there in the Leazes End when Bobby Moncur scored two goals in the 3-0 victory. 60,000 delirious Geordies singing the Blaydon Races. They could have heard us in Hungary!I've been through the dark times of relegation and FA Cup humiliation (I still have nightmares about Hereford United) but here we are in 2025, with more silverware and the never-dying hope of greater things to come. Newcastle is part of our DNA - you can't explain it. Either you are or you aren't Newcastle. No grey area! Tee: In 1969, I was dragged to a Fairs Cup game by my older brother, because me ma said he should look after me. We were in what is now the East Stand. I was at the front playing with pebbles as I could hardly see over the wall!Then, the place erupted and my brother grabbed me and picked me up screaming and shouting: "Frank Clark has just scored his first goal for Newcastle!"He was virtually in people around were grabbing each other and eventually my brother came to me and asked: ' What do you think about that?"I grabbed him and then said: "Very good, so can we go home now?"Needless to say we stayed. I became a diehard Toon supporter, who even now, nearly 60 years later, can say that I saw Frank Clark's one and only goal for the Toon because I was there! Send your pictures and stories here
Times
24-07-2025
- Sport
- Times
Wyn Davies obituary: Newcastle striker known as ‘Wyn the Leap'
Few footballers were as formidable in the air as Wyn Davies, or 'Wyn the Leap' as he was widely known. As crosses came in he would hang in the air high above desperate defenders, heading the ball powerfully towards goal or knocking it down for team-mates to score. In the author Duncan Hamilton's nostalgic memory he was 'the footballer who could fly'. 'Up in the air there was nobody who could compete with him, not just in England but in Europe,' said his Newcastle United team-mate Bobby Moncur. And it was for Newcastle in Europe that Davies really made his name. He was a key member of the team that won the 1969 Fairs Cup. They beat opponents including Feyenoord and Sporting Lisbon and then triumphed in the final against Ujpest, a Hungarian team boasting several internationals. The veteran Newcastle reporter John Gibson recalled 'one foreign international defender moaning to me after facing the relentless challenge of Davies, 'Football is called football because it is supposed to be played on the ruddy ground, not with a forehead used as a sledgehammer!' ' It was also his courage that made him so effective. Described as 'warrior-like' in his approach, with distinctive red hair, Davies was little deterred by defenders' aggression. His nose was broken during the Fairs Cup campaign, and he played the final with an undiagnosed fractured cheekbone. He survived skirmishes including a semi-final against Rangers when he was roughed up by defenders and bombarded with bottles by the Glaswegian fans. 'I'm the centre forward paid to take the knocks,' was Davies's laconic comment on such experiences. In another European campaign Newcastle played the Italian giants Inter Milan. Davies scored with an excellent diving header in the away leg at the San Siro. Back home at St James' Park he challenged the Milan goalkeeper and a mêlée ensued; the keeper was sent off as police came onto the pitch to restore order and Davies scored again in a 2-0 win. He scored ten goals in 24 European games for Newcastle, but his record in domestic games was less good — 56 overall in 216 appearances. Another team-mate, Frank Clark, reflected that 'scoring goals wasn't really his strength. He was one of the bravest players I ever saw but his game was all about creating havoc in the opposition box.' Newcastle had begun their pursuit of Davies, then a Bolton player, after he caused just such havoc against them in 1965. At first he rebuffed their advances. 'They wanted to sign me,' Davies recalled 'and I stalled after some of the [Bolton] lads told me to ask for £70 a week and they refused.' But the manager Joe Harvey returned the following year, agreed a transfer fee of £85,000, and made Davies a new offer. Davies insisted on finding a phone box to contact his mother and have a long conversation in his first language, Welsh, seeking her advice. He had once signed for Wrexham without consulting her and she complained so much that he subsequently never took any career decision without her approval. She now said yes and he headed north. Davies sends a header towards goal at St James' Park in 1966 ALAMY They were close as she had brought up Davies and his brothers alone after his father died when he was six. Ronald Wyn Davies was born in 1942 in Caernarfon and worked in the nearby slate quarries while playing for teams including Llanberis before joining Wrexham, where he scored 26 goals. He moved to Bolton in 1962, motivated partly by memories of seeing the great Nat Lofthouse play. He inherited Lofthouse's No 9 shirt and scored 74 goals in 170 appearances, also spending time improving his English. But he swore at referees in Welsh so they would not understand. While at Bolton, Davies made his international debut for Wales. He won 34 caps and the most famous of his seven goals came in 1966 against the newly crowned World Cup winners, England. It was a trademark Davies goal, chasing a long ball into the area and rising above two helpless defenders to power the ball into the top corner. He and his fellow strikers Ron Davies and John Toshack were dubbed 'the Welsh air force'. In 1971 Davies moved from Newcastle to Manchester City, resuming a partnership from his Bolton days with the striker Francis Lee (obituary, October 3, 2023), and won an FA Charity Shield medal. In 1972 he moved across the city to Manchester United, scoring on his debut. But he 'didn't get on' with the new manager Tommy Docherty (obituary, January 1, 2021) and was sold the next year to Blackpool. He also played for Stockport County, Crewe Alexandra and Bangor City, as well as for a team in South Africa, before retiring from playing. Davies was something of an introvert, remaining close to his Welsh family and returning to live in Bolton, where he worked for a time at a bakery. He had never had an agent and had earned a tiny amount by comparison with modern players. But he insisted he was content in later life with an allotment, looking after his dogs and sharing scrapbook memories with football fans. There were occasional visits from a group of Newcastle supporters, the Fairs Club, who wanted to re-live the glory of the 1969 European triumph. He appreciated those fans in particular as 'humble people and fanatical', hearing them sing their old song of praise from the glory days: 'Come all without, come all within, you've not seen nothing like the Mighty Wyn.' Wyn Davies, footballer, was born on March 20, 1942. He died of undisclosed causes on July 17, 2025, aged 83
Yahoo
15-03-2025
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- Yahoo
'Eddie, will you hurry up and win a trophy!'
The last captain to win a cup for Newcastle, Bobby Moncur, says it has been "far too long" since the Magpies claimed silverware and wants someone to "take this role over". Bruno Guimaraes has the chance to become the first Newcastle skipper to lift a trophy since Moncur lifted the European Fairs Cup in 1969 under club legend Joe Harvey. "Alan Shearer nearly won a trophy as captain but we didn't," Moncur told BBC Radio Newcastle's Matt Bailey. "There's been a few near misses as well and I keep thinking someone is going to have to take this role over because it was 1969. "Who would have thought at the time Newcastle would win a European trophy and then win nothing more of any ilk until now? You just can't believe it. "Every year goes by and, sadly, I get a year older and I think to myself I might not see them win another trophy. I said that to Eddie [Howe] when I saw him - I said: 'Eddie, will you hurry up please because I might run out of time here!'" Listen to the full chat on BBC Sounds
BBC News
15-03-2025
- Sport
- BBC News
'Eddie, will you hurry up and win a trophy!'
The last captain to win a cup for Newcastle, Bobby Moncur, says it has been "far too long" since the Magpies claimed silverware and wants someone to "take this role over".Bruno Guimaraes has the chance to become the first Newcastle skipper to lift a trophy since Moncur lifted the European Fairs Cup in 1969 under club legend Joe Harvey."Alan Shearer nearly won a trophy as captain but we didn't," Moncur told BBC Radio Newcastle's Matt Bailey."There's been a few near misses as well and I keep thinking someone is going to have to take this role over because it was 1969."Who would have thought at the time Newcastle would win a European trophy and then win nothing more of any ilk until now? You just can't believe it."Every year goes by and, sadly, I get a year older and I think to myself I might not see them win another trophy. I said that to Eddie [Howe] when I saw him - I said: 'Eddie, will you hurry up please because I might run out of time here!'"Listen to the full chat on BBC Sounds
