That Season When... Liverpool Beat Newcastle 4-3
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Kevin Keegan's Newcastle team
That team and I mean this with only with love and respect, ruined football for me. They are my touchstone for football; that's how I feel football can be played, should be played.
I was kind of like, you're looking at it and looking at the surroundings and kind of thinking, I'm actually getting paid to be here when I'm watching these players just put on a ridiculous performance.
Tactical approach of 1996 Newcastle
When it gets to 3-3, you'd have thought most teams would be like, 'Right, let's take a breather, let's just sit and try and take the point.' But that wasn't us. You're going for the killer goal.
1996 Premier League title race
The second half of that season is painted as Newcastle throwing it away. Manchester United were absolutely relentless, robotic and brilliant in the second half of that season.
There's no doubt, in terms of the mind games and the psychology, Ferguson was the master of that. But there was also one sliding doors moment: at 3-3, Les Ferdinand wriggles free and he could have made it 4-3.
Newcastle United 1996 title race
If we put the second half of the season the same as the first, we will be champions, but very easily said, hard to do.
Robbie Fowler's talent
I got to Liverpool and I just remember thinking, 'Oh my God, how good is Robbie Fowler?' He was ridiculous in training. He was naturally gifted and he did have every sort of goal in his locker.
Liverpool vs Newcastle 4-3 legacy
I've never used the word triggering about myself, but this game... I associate this game with agony, with pain, with proper agony.
Stan Collymore's winning goal
I was lucky enough to put this lovely ball in. Andy Gray called it a horrible ball, which we still laugh about now. I agree. It's a defender's nightmare.
1996 FA Cup Final
I think the game that probably people ask me about most is the 96 Cup final because I don't even know it, but we wore a white suit.
