LEE CLARK
Clarkie signed for Newcastle in 1988, a Geordie boy through to his bones, and he made 261 appearances for Newcastle before a £4m transfer that just about stopped the traffic in Newcastle city centre!
I received a phone call from a local press reporter asking me for a quote: "What do you think about Lee Clark signing for Sunderland?"
I waited for the punch line ... which didn't come. I was gobsmacked.
I have known Clarkie for years. I had seen him pull out of a talk-in at a local club because he was to share the night with a Sunderland player (and he had not been told about), and when I met him outside of the club and told him ... his jaw dropped.
I won't tell you the club, or the Sunderland player, but I promise it is true.
I had seen him and Michael Bridges (then a Sunderland player but Toon fan at heart) sing football songs in the Vaults in the Bigg Market many times on a Sunday evening ... anti-Sunderland songs in Clark's case.
And for him to sign for the Mackems ... it still makes me shiver!
Even as a Sunderland player, he was in Saints bar (Durham) one Sunday with Michael Gray, Kevin Phillips, and several more Sunderland players, and we had just returned from a fixture against Liverpool. Clarkie borrowed my Newcastle season ticket and rubbed it in Gray's face ... shouting "That's the team!"
I'm sure we all know about the SMB (Sad Mackem Bastards) shirt he wore at Newcastle's FA Cup final against Arsenal, and it cost him his Newcastle career.
But best of all was the talk-in after the SMB event when Mackem legend
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