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Padraig Whelan·27 March 2020

Newcastle's best ever XI ... The first forward 💥

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With the football on hold at the moment, we’ve been thinking about who gets in Newcastle’s all-time XI.

Today we’re choosing the first of the forwards.


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Here are the nominees …


3rd – Les Ferdinand

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When he joined Newcastle from Queens Park Rangers in 1995, he did so as the club’s record signing but justified every penny of that fee.

In addition to being a selflessly hard-working, strong centre-forward, Ferdinand was absolutely lethal in front of goal himself in his two seasons on Tyneside.

Although he played just 83 games for the club, ‘Sir Les’ still managed an extremely impressive half-century of goals.


2nd – Kevin Keegan

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It remains one of the most incredible coups in the history of the game that Newcastle managed to sign a two-time European Player of the Year when they were in the Second Division.

Keegan went on to prove his class at St James’ Park though and long before he was a popular manager at the club, he was an incredibly gifted attacker.

His goals fired them to promotion and he stayed one more year before exiting, after a haul of 49 goals in 85 games.


And the winner is … Hughie Gallacher

There is simply no way that you can leave out a man with the best goals to game ratio in Newcastle history.

The Scot is the fourth highest goalscorer for the Magpies, scoring a phenomenal 143 times in 174 games between 1925 and 1930, averaging 0.82 goals per game.

Although he was rather small in stature, he became famed for scoring all manner of goals, ranging from tap-ins to headers and drives from distance.

In 1926/27, ‘Wee Hughie’ skippered the side to the league title and led by example, scoring a staggering 36 goals in 38 games en route to lifting the trophy.


Here’s how the team is looking so far …

GK: Shay Given RB: Bill McCracken CB: Bobby Moncur CB: Philippe Albert LB: Frank Hudspeth CM: Peter Beardsley CM: Rob Lee CM: David Ginola FW: Hughie Gallacher

Check back tomorrow when we will be choosing the second forward.