'Toon fans sing my name 30-odd years later!'

NEWCASTLE terrace icon Liam O'Brien admits that his heroics on Wearside in a Toon shirt back in the early 1990s changed his life - though he did not grasp the enormity of what he'd done at the time.

- LEE RYDER

O'Brien netted twice for the Magpies in the WearTyne derby to stun Sunderland fans at the old Roker Park stadium - in 1991 and 1992.

In a piece of technical brilliance of which Dennis Bergkamp might have been proud, that first derby strike was floated over home keeper Tony Norman and through the fog to net a huge point.