Newcastle 1966/67 Players

Ain't Too Proud to Beg

Harvey had drawn a blank during the summer from both a buying and selling point of view and he made no secret of the fact that he desperately wanted to strengthen the team.

United were being constantly linked with players and made an unsuccessful £100,000 bid for QPR stars Rodney Marsh and Roger Young

The breakthrough finally came when United almost doubled their previous record fee to bring Wyn Davies from Bolton for £80,000. Although it took a few phone calls home to his mam before he finally put pen to paper.

It was a big fee for the time, but Alan Ball's £110,000 move from Blackpool to Everton set the new high

Bend It!

Pop Robson won the Professional Footballers ' Golf Championship with a round of 70 at Kenilworth.

Let's Spend the Night Together

The most important match of the year was the belated testimonial given to Jackie Milburn. When he left United in 1957 he had given them fourteen fantastic years but rather than reward him with a benefit and a free pass out they demanded a £10,000 fee and a player from buyers Linfield

Was this a case of the board relenting? Not really, it was the Supporters Club who put forward the idea and helped organise it; the club merely made the ground available.

United's 51 Cup winning team (minus Robledo) was re-united to take on a former International X1 in a 30 minute game followed by a full match between a Jackie Milburn XI and an International XI which included Bobby Charlton and Ferenc Puskas. Unfortunately bad weather brought proceedings to a premature halt.

The match was attended by 45,404 people and produced receipts of £8,200 which enabled Jackie to pay off his mortgage.

Jackie was typically modest. "I am delighted, thrilled and quite frankly a little embarrassed. I really do not feel I merit it at all".

Respect

Another former player who was making the headlines was Ronnie Simpson. Deemed not good enough for United at the end of the fifties he won a European Cup Winners medal with Celtic.