After losing Andy Carroll to Liverpool on deadline day, being 4-0 down at half-time to Arsenal left a dark mood around St James’s Park.
Arsenal were simply awesome in the first-half to leave a shell shocked Newcastle trailing in their wake at half-time.
However, a remarkable second-half turnaround, sparked by a needless red card to Abou Diaby, was capped off by the late-Cheick Tiote with memories to last a lifetime for the 52,000 fans inside St James’s Park that day - well, the ones who didn’t leave the game early that is of course.
Unbelievably it has been 11 years have passed since that day - so where are the players that featured for the Magpies that afternoon now?
Here, we take a look at how each player’s career looked after that day and, of course, remember the man who scored the equalising goal that afternoon:
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However, a remarkable second-half turnaround, sparked by a needless red card to Abou Diaby, was capped off by the late-Cheick Tiote with memories to last a lifetime for the 52,000 fans inside St James’s Park that day - well, the ones who didn’t leave the game early that is of course.