10 Former Toon Players Who Returned To Haunt Newcastle

4. Lee Clark

It speaks volumes about the depth of Lee Clark's love for Newcastle United that he could hardly crack a smile when he buried a crisp winner against the club in April 2003, which virtually guaranteed Fulham's Premiership status for the next season. One shouldn't be too surprised - after all, this is the same man who sported a derogatory T-shirt mocking Sunderland supporters whilst on their books. A Geordie through and through, it looked like he felt the pain of his own 85th minute strike as much as the away support, as it severely dented his boyhood club's Champions League ambitions. He had never started against the Toon since leaving St. James' Park, but Chris Coleman entrusted him with a role, and he duly repaid the caretaker boss' faith with a low winner from the edge of the box, to send Loftus Road into raptures. Alan Shearer had given Newcastle the lead with his first ever goal against the Cottagers, but utility man Sylvain Legwinski struck a magnificent equaliser with twenty minutes remaining, following Newcastle full-back Andy Griffin's dismissal. Scripts of this nature were written in the heavens as the Geordie boy popped up in the dying moments to grab the three points and seal Premiership survival.