10 Players Who Successfully Played For Newcastle & Sunderland

9. Titus Bramble

NUFC: 2002 - 2007 (157 games, 7 goals) SAFC: 2010 - 2013 (51 games, 1 goal) Forever remembered as being an accident waiting to happen. Calamity Titus arrived at St James' Park from Ipswich for £5 million in July 2002 and immediately vowed to make himself an indispensable asset to Newcastle manager Sir Bobby Robson. And in truth his early performances were promising but soon enough his absent-mindedness began to take hold and he became more indispensable to the opposition than his own team. And just to compound how bad Bramble actually was, readers of the The Fiver (a daily football e-mail published by the Guardian) voted him the worst player of the year in the Premier League at the end of the 2003/04 season. It took another three years to get Bramble off the books when he departed Tyneside on a free transfer and, somewhat surprisingly, rebuilt his reputation at Wigan.

He then followed Steve Bruce from the DW Stadium to Wearside in the summer of 2010 when the Sunderland boss paid £1m to bring him to the Stadium of Light. And Bramble proved a relatively shrewd signing by Bruce in his debut campaign but quickly fell out of favour under Martin O'Neill and his replacement Paulo Di Canio. He's currently without a club after being released by the Mackems last year.