10 Newcastle Players Who Became Legends In One Moment

4. Craig Bellamy's Feyenoord Goal

During his time at Newcastle, Craig Bellamy was Marmite: he might have helped extend Alan Shearer's career by replacing his need to run, and scored some crucial goals for the Magpies, but he was also notoriously huffy, refused to play out of position (and threatened to pretend he was injured when told he had to) and then sacrilegiously goaded Shearer while on loan at Celtic. So quite why the player deserves to be classed as a hero will be difficult to take for some: but he definitely does, because it was the Welshman - and not a silky Columbian he never played with - who was responsible for the most famous of all of Newcastle's European moments. Poised on the edge of a disappointing exit from the Champions League group stages after 3 defeats, Newcastle became the first team ever to come back with three victories to qualify for the knock-out and the crowning moment in that unbelievable turn around was Bellamy's defiant goal against Feyenoord to snatch a 3-2 victory. We went mental, and Bellamy was immediately anointed a hero.