4. Jamie And Steven McClen
Adam Davy/EMPICS SportOf all the brothers to both play for Newcastle, the McClens are the least notable, as Steven McClen, the elder twin by some 15 minutes, was only attached to the club in schoolboy terms, signing along with his brother,
according to this exhaustive Newcastle database. Having both played together at Cramlington Boys Club, the pair went on trial at various clubs, including Man City and Leeds, but chose to sign for Newcastle, where Jamie (above) was the only one of the two to break into the first team, after Ruud Gullit offered him an unlikely long-term contract. After helping the club to fourth in the Premier League at the end of the 2001-02 season, McClen was offered another long term deal, but he drifted away from the first team picture, before being released in 2005 when he joined Carlisle, from where he moved to Blyth Spartans and on to a whistle-stop tour of lower league clubs including Gateshead and Newcastle Blue Star. His brother meanwhile became famous only for joining Jamie on nights out in Newcastle - rumour has it pretending to be him - and helping get his brother, Sylvain Distin and Olivier Bernard in trouble when
Jamie was ticked off publicly by Freddie Shepherd for being found drunk and disorderly in Newcastle.