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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13. SUB - Danny Guthrie
The midfielder, who is still playing aged 34, has played for six different teams since leaving Newcastle in 2012. In England, Guthrie has played for Reading, Fulham, Blackburn Rovers and Walsall whilst also having a spell at Mitra Kukar in Poland. He now calls Icelandic side Fram Reykjavik home. Photo: Stu Forster