📸 Season 2002-03
📆 18th January 2003
🏟 St James' Park, Newcastle
Newcastle go two-up through the horizontal Craig Bellamy (4), after Alan Shearer's "early strike" on 10 seconds catches Carlo Nash asleep straight from kick-off. Bellamy, at this time a complete pain in the backside to City's defence, will - after an odyssey that takes him to Celtic, Liverpool, Blackburn and West Ham - ship up at City for a two-season cameo of feisty front-running under Mark Hughes. In January 2009, he will even net a neat left-footer for City against his former club in the fixture at the City of Manchester Stadium.
In the background is Sylvain Distin (1), who has already made the journey from Tyneside to Moss Side five years ahead of Bellamy. The cultured left-footer slots perfectly into defence on the left side alongside Richard Dunne (2). The Irishman will play 346 first team games for the club, included amongst them 24 matches against Newcastle. As the Premier League's record red card recipient, Dunne registered one of his total of eight dismissals in this fixture. As the Premier League's own goal champion, the Irishman also netted one of his 10 career own goals against Newcastle.
In a career that took him from Nottingham Forest, to QPR, via Newcastle, Tottenham and Villa, Jermaine Jenas (3) first played against City for Nottingham Forest in 2001, a Championship fixture which saw City include ex-Newcastle players Darren Huckerby, Steve Howey and Stuart Pearce in the side.
* Also playing in this 2003 fixture were the self-same Steve Howey (ex-Newcastle, playing for City) and Shay Given (Newcastle's keeper, future City custodian).
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