sport news Premier League: Newcastle 'Entertainers' and famous Liverpool loss recalled trends now
Many claim that it remains the best game of the Premier League era. Others go so far as to claim it is the best game of the 20th century.
What is for certain is that Liverpool 4 Newcastle United 3 on April 3, 1996 was an outstanding advertisement for English football still fondly recalled today.
It was the night Kevin Keegan's Newcastle 'Entertainers' realised they were destined to become the best team never to lift the Premier League trophy.
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Stan Collymore blasts home his famous winner for Liverpool against title-chasing Newcastle
It was despair for Newcastle but delight for Liverpool as they won the seven-goal thriller
Their policy of 'we'll score one more than you, however many you score' was stretched to the limit and snapped in a seven-goal thriller on a tumultuous evening at Anfield that profited only eventual champions Manchester United.
That night has been recalled by former Newcastle favourites Les Ferdinand and David Ginola, plus Liverpool's Jamie Redknapp, in the latest instalment of the Premier League's 10-part 'Iconic Stories' series to mark 30 years of the competition.
Newcastle manager Keegan had assembled a team that was designed for all-out attack and cared little for boring trivialities such as defending.
Towering centre forward Ferdinand and flowing French winger Ginola were among a host of summer signings in 1995 as the Toon went all-out to end a league title drought dating back to 1927.
'From a centre forwards' point of view, it was everything I could have dreamed of - and more,' Ferdinand says in the film. 'It was like going into a sweet shop.
Keegan can't bear to watch and slumps underneath the hoardings after Collymore's goal
Newcastle had already ceded plenty of ground to Man United in the title race but this defeat at Anfield was a killer blow for the 'Entertainers'
'At the time Newcastle were everybody's second favourite team.
'Every time I came back to London, everybody I'd see along the way would say, 'I'm not a Newcastle supporter but anytime they're on the TV I
