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By Shamoon Hafez
BBC Sport
Liverpool v Newcastle - a fixture which has seen a good deal of moments that are iconic and bags of goals.
Both sides meet again in Anfield on Saturday (kick-off 12:30 BST) with all Liverpool very top of this table having won their opening four games, while Newcastle have enhanced following a bad start.
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Goalscorer: Andy Cole (3)
Kevin Keegan’s side, dubbed’The Entertainers’, played having won the past year to the Division One title.
Liverpool, under Graeme Souness, came to St James’ Park as one but were defeated by Andy Cole in freezing conditions at the north west.
The first two aims of cole were typical poacher’s efforts, stretching a leg before Bruce Grobbelaar on the two events to convert from six yards out, while his third was side-footed in by comparable space.
Roy Evans lost his job and replaced souness. While a third-place complete was secured by the Magpies liverpool ended the season.
Goalscorers: Robbie Fowler (2), Stan Collymore (2); Les Ferdinand, David Ginola, Faustino Asprilla
The greatest Premier League match of them all? The ebb and flow of a highly dramatic contest played under the floodlights with a pitch before a raucous Anfield crowd.
Reds legend Robbie Fowler headed in at the back post to the opener, while Newcastle equalised as Les Ferdinand’s shot squirmed via David James’ handson.
Frenchman David Ginola coolly slotted in for 2-1 and conducted through on goal, but Fowler equalised with a gorgeous outside-of-the-foot finish in the second half.
Faustino Asprilla stroked until Stan Collymore transformed from Jason McAteer cross for 3-3 in as James flew from his goal to put Newcastle in front again, with the Liverpool players looking for an offside flag.
With time running out and John Barnes and Ian Rush the ball was squeezed broad for Collymore out to smash home the winner in injury time.
Martin Tyler’s memorable, humorous commentary on Sky Sports reached a crescendo:”Barnes, Rush, Barnes, nevertheless John Barnes, Collymore… CLOSING INNNNNNN, Liverpool lead to stoppage time! Kevin Keegan slides his head, he is devastated.”
Fans went crazy in the stands, although their frontman Keegan slumped on the advertising hoardings in a few of the Premier League minutes, knowing the title slipped away.
Goalscorers: Steve McManaman, Patrik Berger, Robbie Fowler (two ); Keith Gillespie, Faustino Asprilla, Warren Barton
Unexpectedly, the following season saw these two sides share another game that was 4-3 in Anfield and it was a sense after Keegan had sensationally quit in January 1997.
The Anfield surface was considerably better on this occasion and Steve McManaman’s opener was exceptional, curling from the edge of the area in a finish.
Patrik Berger made it 2-0 after Fowler’s shot ricocheted back off the pole, while the Englishman attacked home the next before the hesitant Shaka Hislop - before half-time.
Newcastle came out firing in the second stage - Keith Gillespie pulling on one back in the border of the box with a James howler with 19 minutes remaining.
James went walkabout more, letting Asprilla to lob at a brilliant ending on 87 minutes and Warren Barton thought he’d made when he poked into 3-3.
But Newcastle’s joy was short lived as Fowler leapt to fulfill the cross of Stig Inge Bjornebye since the Magpies finished second to Manchester United in the match and also even plant a header into the corner. Again.
Goalscorers: David Edgar; Steven Gerrard (2), Sami Hyypia, Ryan Babel, Xabi Alonso
Rafael Benitez side thumped Joe Kinnear’s guys 5-1 - before turning provided for the towering header from a corner of Hyypia, Gerrard smacking off the post from the opener.
Newcastle pulled one back before but Babel appeared in, Gerrard ran through and dinked in his second, while Alonso added the fifth.
Liverpool’s place was cemented by the result at the top of the table and although they lost twice during the 2008-09 year, 11 brings cost them losing the name by four points.
Goalscorers: Kevin Nolan, Joey Barton, Andy Carroll
When Alan Pardew was appointed Newcastle supervisor on a five-and-a-half year agreement to replace Chris Hughton Magpies fans might have hoped for a better start.
Kevin Nolan lashed the opener until Dirk Kuyt’s equaliser.
While Andy Carroll smacked in injury time in a with 10 minutes remaining, Joey Barton nipped ahead of Pepe Reina and Glen Johnson to poke home the second.
Roy Hodgson had been sacked only a month afterwards to be replaced by Dalglish and was left licking at his face in humiliation over the touchline.
Goalscorers: Daniel Agger, Jordan Henderson (2), Daniel Sturridge (two ), Fabio Borini
The following Newcastle thrashing at St James’ Park in the hands of Liverpool, their biggest is defeated by this 6-0 .
This is the first match because striker Luis Suarez has been handed a hefty 10-game ban for biting on Chelsea’s Branislav Ivanovic of Liverpool, however they did not overlook the Uruguayan.
January signing Philippe Coutinho was influential, crossing Danish defender Daniel Agger to head from the opener and a fine team move was finished off by Jordan Henderson.
It got worse for the hosts in Daniel Sturridge slotting home the second half as well as the Englishman.
Fabio Borini came from the bench to score the fifth from Stewart Downing’s cut-back and Henderson curled in a.
Liverpool finished seventh in Brendan Rodgers’ first season in charge, while Newcastle finished five points clear of the relegation zone.
The first classic between the sides arrived from December 1909 when they shared an thriller, ” the Reds coming down at half-time to win.
This time Newcastle pummelled their competitors 9-2, although in January 1934 , the fixture saw 11 goals - that the Liverpool have surrendered in a match.
The 1950-51 season proved to be a memorable one for Newcastle plus they defeat Liverpool 4-2 in Anfield in November, aided by the hat-trick of George Robledo.
In September 1987, Steve Nicol netted a hat-trick as Liverpool ran out 4-1 winners in St James’ Park at one of many brilliant performances from a side - including John Barnes and Peter Beardsley - which would continue to win the championship title in some style.
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