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Hull City (h), Premier League, 13/09/2008: Lost 1-2 Shay Given: Given became a Newcastle United and Ireland legend for his excellent goalkeeping in his many years on Tyneside and is still today seen as a much loved icon. After departing Newcastle in January 2009 to Manchester City, he moved to Aston Villa where he once again became the main man between the sticks before Brad Guzan came in to restrict his chances. He returned to the north east in the form of a brief loan spell

Bolton (h), Premier League, 19/01/2008: Drew 0-0 Shay Given: Given became a Newcastle United and Ireland legend for his excellent goalkeeping in his many years on Tyneside and is still today seen as a much loved icon. After departing Newcastle in January 2009 to Manchester City, he moved to Aston Villa where he once again became the main man between the sticks before Brad Guzan came in to restrict his chances. He returned to the north east in the form of a brief loan spell wi

Glenn Roeder stepped into the managerial hot seat immediately after Graeme Souness' sacking in February 2006. Roeder's appointment was initially intended to be temporary. However, excellent results from the time he took over and until the end of the season took the club from a relegation battle into qualifying for Europe and giving the legend Alan Shearer the best possible end to his career. The good times came rolling in with Roeder. Unfortunately they failed to last. The 20

Sir Bobby Robson was controversially sacked after failing to win Newcastle's opening four games of the 2004/05 campaign. Many believe that Robson was on ever decreasing thin ice at the end of the previous season after failing to qualify for the Champions League and a 5th placed finish with a UEFA Cup Semi-Final finish fell below Freddie Shepherd's high standards. Graeme Souness promptly left Blackburn to take on the job at Tyneside. The Scotsman got off to an excellent start

"I do feel that they need to strengthen in January. The other side of that is it’s not easy to get players in in January from other clubs as well, because they don’t want to sell their better players. It’s not just a matter of if the new owners are in or not. It’s easy enough to say: ‘Oh, we’re getting all of these players in’, but the other clubs have to be willing to sell them. "It’s not black and white that that will happen. They definitely need to strengthen, just to give

“If the investors come in and have got endless amounts of money, they could sign Sanchez, for example. It depends who these new owners are. I’m not saying he’ll go there and they could instead trawl down the bottom part of the league – you just don’t know how much money they’ll have. When you look at Sheikh Mansour when he came to Manchester City and signed Robinho. Will these people have that money to spend or will it be a bit more of shopping down the ladder? “If they get t