Shearer for me. Legend, leader and just a top professional.

But pretty much all of the "entertainers" squad were idols for me as a kid.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DuM_HU0WwAYV9Ha.jpg

[quote=Colly post_id=855781 time=1550793396 user_id=125]
Heh, Diamond Lights is on BBC4 literally now. I love a coincidence.
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I'm afraid it's not a coincidence as that's a repeat of the programme I watched it on earlier in the evening, hence my post!! <laugh> <laugh>

Also another Toon legend, John Barnes, made an appearance on Question Time last night!

Heh, Diamond Lights is on BBC4 literally now. I love a coincidence.

Jim Iley from the day he scored the winner against Bolton Wanderers in 1965 to clinch promotion to the 1st Division.

[quote=Colly post_id=855777 time=1550779501 user_id=125]
I'll give you Diamond Lights but if footballers stuck to football we wouldn't have this, and that's not a world I want to live in.

https://youtu.be/4ct5puqTSi0
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<yikes>

I'll give you Diamond Lights but if footballers stuck to football we wouldn't have this, and that's not a world I want to live in.

https://youtu.be/4ct5puqTSi0

Not an idol but just seen Glenn Hoddle and Chris "pelanty" Waddle singing Diamond Lights on a 1987 edition of Top of the Pops on BBC 4 - footballers should stick to playing football!

Souness brutalised that team. He had Given, Stephen Carr, Steven Taylor, Parker, Emre, Solano, Milner, Butt, Dyer, Bellamy, Shearer and Owen at his disposable, and somehow sent out teams containing Amdy Faye and Jean Alain Boumsong and nearly got us relegated. Definitely up there with McClaren in the 'how the **** did that oaf end up managing us' stakes.

Player I first noticed from Newcastle was Les Ferdinand, my mate had one of those bobble head things of him which was the first I ever knew of the team. First player I would say I idolised was probably Emre, which I want to stress was purely for his footballing ability and not his racial and political views! <laugh>

[quote=Hjl post_id=855691 time=1550535428 user_id=1841]I mean obviously the easy pick, he's a legend. But why Shearer as well?
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[quote=Scalabrine post_id=855683 time=1550515231 user_id=1594]
Shearer & Shola Ameobi.
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I mean obviously the easy pick, he's a legend. But why Shearer as well?

Shearer & Shola Ameobi.

Tony Green by a country mile. He had magic in his boots. A tragedy his career was cut short.

I started following Newcastle in 2005, when I was 13 yo.

Obviously, Shearer is the easy but, I have to say I have absolute admiration for Steven Taylor

To clarify I meant 90s Beardsley. You old bastards.

Either Waddle or Beardsley for me seeing as it was 84/85 season.

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[quote="Donkey Toon" post_id=855664 time=1550452473 user_id=69]
Malcolm McDonald.

There were other players I was a big fan of before that but he was the first i'd say reached idol level.
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Would have been this but for a chance encounter with David McCreery in Newcastle which led to a very good drunken afternoon and a great time. Plus he was an absolute rock in midfield love the guy <awe> special mention for Imre Varadi <awe>
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<ok> Nearly said McCreery as well. Loved the guy, had a picture of him as my avatar for a while before switching to Ketsbaia. But decided that he never quite reached idol level. I admit to my ten (?) year old self crying when I heard we'd sold McDonald. Was inconsolable for about a week, so he gets the vote by default.

Loved Varadi as well, for a time he was the one bright light in what was otherwise a very dark time for our club. Deserves to be better remembered than he is!

I think mine was Peter Beardsley, I'd always admired a nice bit of passing more than a thunderbolt strike and I still to this day can't think of a better number 10 behind a striker combo than him and Andy Cole. He scored plenty, but the fact Cole barely had to leave the penalty area was all down to Beardsley's on field intelligence. Which makes current Beardsley all the more depressing. Dog dirt.

All that being said I grew up as a left back and my earliest printed shirt was the one with the shield on the back, just had a 3 on it which will have been Beresford at the time. Still fits me too, god bless stupidly oversized 90s shirts...

Jinky Jimmy Smith.