NUFC Season Summaries

NUFC Season 1972/73

Another season of false optimism and dashed hopes with very poor form on their travels letting the side down.

In the League another "Vietcong" amount of injuries maeant another shaky start, but they recovered well and by the turn of the year were in 5th place and well in contention for a European placing. They remained in contention until the last couple of months whereupon their form slipped and they stumbled into mid-table mediocrity.

The domestic cups saw us turned over in usual fashion by lower league opposion at home. We managed to get through one round in both League and FA before falling to the Second Rung might of Blackpool and Luton. We did better in the Texaco Cup once again losing in the semis; this time to Ipswich.

European football was back on Tyneside by way of the short-lived and controversial Anglo-Italian Cup and United went to Rome and won the bugger.

Three million fans turned their back on football during that season as the football crisis deepened, Newcastle were one of the many teams who lost out although there were mitigating circumstances with the East Stand being redeveloped.

There were no major new arrivals but Terry Mcdermott was signed form Bury and two young fullbacks were blooded; Alan Kenneddy and Irving Nattrass.