So You Think You Know The Toon? [5]

Tyne-Wear Derby Day - delights, and dismays…

The first “official” Tyne-Wear Derby took place on Christmas Eve 1 1898, but who were celebrating Newcastle or ? 2 Who scored Newcastle’s first goal in a Tyne-Wear Derby? Who scored the first ever hat-trick in a Tyne-Wear Derby? 3 Look carefully at the next question before you answer. It should lead you to conclude you are NOT looking for a Newcastle player  Newcastle had to wait until 1956 before they saw their first hat-trick 4 scorer, who was he? To date (2020) which Newcastle player has scored more goals 5 against Sunderland than any other? Newcastle’s record goal scorer, Alan Shearer, only ever scored 3 6 times for Newcastle against Sunderland, can you date the games? Our record defeat was 9-0 against Burton Wanderers but it was 7 against Sunderland we suffered our second biggest defeat. What was the score? Newcastle’s final visit to Park was in 1996 a game they won, 8 but what was the score? Newcastle’s first visit to the was in 2000, what was 9 the score in this game? Prior to Sunderland’s dramatic plunge down the leagues Newcastle 10 had a horrendous losing streak. How many games did they lose in a row, which is still a record against Sunderland? Tyne-Wear FA Cup Derbies…

Newcastle East End and Newcastle West End had both met 11 Sunderland in the FA Cup, but when was the first time Newcastle “United” met them? The 1908-09 season saw Newcastle and Sunderland draw at St 12 James’s Park 2-2. What was the score in the replay at ? The 1912-13 season again saw a draw between the two in the 13 Fourth Round at Roker Park. What was the score? The replay at St James’s Park was also a drawn game, but what 14 was the score? Having played at Roker Park and then St James’s Park, where was 15 the second replay held? Tyne-Wear League Cup Derbies …

Newcastle and Sunderland have only met once in the League Cup, 16 season 1979-80. What was the 1st Leg score at Roker Park? A former Newcastle “legend” scored for Sunderland in that game, 17 who was he?

What was the 2nd Leg score at St James’s Park? Look carefully at 18 question 19, it should lead you to conclude this was NOT a 0-0 draw  It was a former Middlesbrough “legend” who scored the first of 19 Newcastle’s goals in the 2nd Leg, who was he? The answers to Nos 16 & 17 should lead you to a quandary, in that the goals scored and conceded were equal on both sides. 20 Newcastle lost the resulting “penalty shootout”, but who was it who had his penalty saved for them thus deciding the tie?

Fifth in a series of great Newcastle United quizzes from www.toon1892.com