It’s 50 years since you wrote your name in Newcastle history with a hat-trick on your home debut against the mighty Liverpool. Happy memories?
Well, yes and no. I ended up getting knocked out by Ray Clemence and being carried off the pitch! But it was a wonderful start to my Newcastle career and sparked that special relationship I had with the club’s supporters, which endures to this day. My first goal was a penalty, conceded by Kevin Keegan. The second nearly took the net off its stanchions and the third was a nice finish in front of the Leazes End. But afterwards I was in an awful mess – I needed stitches in my mouth, plastic skin over a gash on the cheekbone, and I had a black eye. I wasn’t able to
