In January 1997 Dalglish took over as manager at Newcastle United.

In January 1997 Dalglish was appointed manager of Premier League side Newcastle United on a three-and-a-half-year contract, taking over from Kevin Keegan.

The 1997 – 98 campaign saw Newcastle finish in only 13th place and, despite Dalglish achieving some notable successes during the season ( including a 3 – 2 UEFA Champions League win over Barcelona and an FA Cup final appearance against Arsenal ), he was sacked by Freddie Shepherd after two draws in the opening two games of the subsequent 1998 – 1999 season, and replaced by former Chelsea manager Ruud Gullit.

By the end of February, relegation threatened, and when Newcastle offered Ardiles the chance to become their new boss, he accepted, becoming the club's first foreign manager.

* 1991 – 92: Newcastle United ( England ) ( as manager )

In 1930, Newcastle United came close to relegation, and at the end of the season Gallacher left the club for Chelsea, and at the same time Andy Cunningham became the club's first team manager.

On 16 January 2008, Kevin Keegan was reappointed as Newcastle manager.

In 2009 he briefly left his BBC role to become Newcastle United's manager in the last eight games of their 2008 – 09 season, in an unsuccessful attempt to save them from relegation.

In January 1996, Kevin Keegan attempted to re-sign Waddle for Newcastle United as cover for David Ginola during a suspension, but Keegan's £ 500, 000 bid to re-sign the player who had played alongside him in the Newcastle team more than a decade earlier was rejected and Keegan was unwilling to meet manager David Pleat's £ 1million asking price for the 35-year-old.

While working as a ' viewer ' or manager at Wylam's Colliery near Newcastle upon Tyne, he built the first practical steam locomotive which relied simply on the adhesion of iron wheels on iron rails.

However, the situation changed for Milner after Newcastle manager Bobby Robson, whom Milner considered his mentor, was sacked and replaced by Graeme Souness.

The newly-appointed Newcastle manager Glenn Roeder appeared to appreciate Milner's ability more than Souness and expressed a desire that he remain a Newcastle player.

He signed another four-year contract in May 2007, when Sam Allardyce took over as manager of Newcastle.

Charlton resigned his position in May 1983 ( in a season where they reached the FA Cup semi-finals, a year before promotion to the First Division ), went briefly back to Middlesbrough ( a year after relegation to the Second Division ), then became manager of Newcastle United.

Sunderland also achieved a 2 – 1 victory over rivals Newcastle United at St. James ' Park, a result which helped bring about the resignation of Newcastle's manager, Ruud Gullit.

On 10 June 2007, Owen's new manager at Newcastle, Sam Allardyce, confirmed the existence of the release clause in Owen's contract and admitted he feared that the club would be powerless to prevent Owen from leaving.

This reignited the ' club or country ' row, with then Newcastle manager Sam Allardyce voicing his disappointment that Owen was risked in a low-key friendly game against Austria.

Owen's goal in the 2 – 0 defeat of Fulham on 22 March 2008, which marked Newcastle's first win under Kevin Keegan's second spell as manager, also marked the first time in his Newcastle career that Owen had scored more goals for Newcastle than against them.

After a disastrous season in general for the club, which culminated in Owen's former Newcastle and England team mate Alan Shearer being brought in as a temporary manager for the final 8 games of the season, on the final day of the season on 24 May, Newcastle were relegated from the Premier League for the first time in 15 years.

* Jimmy Scoular former Portsmouth FC and Newcastle Utd football player and Cardiff City manager.

Keegan had previously expressed disquiet with the concept of a Director of Football, both in commenting about the previous Newcastle manager Sam Allardyce, and latterly the proposition of Newcastle owner Mike Ashley appointing one during his tenure at the club.

Under Paul Ince and Sam Allardyce he failed to break into the first team on a consistent basis, and on 17 September 2009 Khizanishvili joined Championship team Newcastle United on loan in a three-month deal.

Since Bond's sacking, Newcastle then appointed Sam Allardyce as manager.

However, after failing to impress Newcastle manager Sam Allardyce, or Kevin Keegan on 27 March 2008, Ameobi agreed a loan deal with Stoke City until the end of the season, to help their promotion campaign.

Following the end of the 2006 – 07 season, Ben-Haim's contract with Bolton had expired and his future at Bolton was in doubt with media reports linking him with a move to Chelsea and Newcastle United, ex-Bolton boss Sam Allardyce admitting that he was ready to make an offer to his former charge to bring him to Newcastle.

On 9 January 2008, Sam Allardyce parted company with Newcastle United by mutual agreement.

He signed a 3 year contract, with then Newcastle manager Sam Allardyce declaring that he was very pleased with the transfer.

The departure of Sam Allardyce to Newcastle United and his eventual replacement with Gary Megson saw Hunt fall out of favour at the Reebok Stadium and he was subsequently loaned out to Championship side Birmingham City on an emergency one-month loan deal as cover for the injured Stuart Parnaby and Stephen Kelly on 3 November 2008.

As a result of this, on 16 May 2007 it was announced that, following the appointment of Sam Allardyce as Newcastle boss Bernard, along with Titus Bramble, Oguchi Onyewu, Craig Moore, and Pavel Srníček would not be playing for the side the following season having been released from their contracts.

In November 2007 speculation was rife that Barber would rejoin his friend Sam Allardyce as goalkeeping coach at Newcastle United following the departure of Terry Gennoe due to injury but Barber remained loyal to Bolton and signed a new contract.

He repaid new manager Sam Allardyce's trust in him by scoring the opening goal of the game, which Newcastle won 3 – 1.

Freddie Shepherd appointed ex-Bolton boss Sam Allardyce as Newcastle manager, before Shepherd himself left the club, following a takeover by St James Holdings Limited, the bid vehicle of billionaire businessman Mike Ashley.

On 15 August 2007, there were stories in several newspapers stating that Faye would be moving to Newcastle United for around £ 2m to join up with former Manager Sam Allardyce.

Following a spell at Newcastle United from 2007 to 2008, Allardyce managed Blackburn Rovers from 2008 until 13 December 2010.

On the playing side, Allardyce appeared in only one game for Albion, coming on as a substitute against Newcastle United in November 1989.

Allardyce during his career as Newcastle manager.

After the resignation of Glenn Roeder, manager of Newcastle United, on 6 May 2007, Allardyce immediately became the leading contender with bookmakers and the media for the resulting vacancy, and it was confirmed that Allardyce had held a meeting with Newcastle chairman Freddy Shepherd in London.

On 15 May 2007, Newcastle United announced that Allardyce had signed a three-year contract to manage the club.

On 21 May 2007 Allardyce had already axed six players from Newcastle United before the 2007 – 08 season had started.

Allardyce said in a later interview on the clubs website that he felt he acquired Beye for a " bargain " price and that him and his international colleague who also signed with him, Abdoulaye Diagne-Faye would be excellent signings for Newcastle.

He admitted being more than four times over the limit at Newcastle Magistrates Court on 20 October 2010, and has been bailed for sentencing on 11 November.

5 directors of a defunct property investment business admitted multi million pound investment fraud at Newcastle Upon Tyne Crown Court.

Despite a decent enough start to his Stoke career he went on to have poor performances against Sunderland, Newcastle and Bolton and he was dropped by Pulis and Woodgate admitted that he needs to up his game.

The team was overshadowed by the Newcastle Knights who won the ARL competition and were admitted into the 1998 re-united competition.

It was not until 1988 that another Newcastle based team was admitted into the NSWRL.

The Gold Coast-Tweed Giants were admitted to the New South Wales Rugby League premiership for the 1988 season, along with the Brisbane Broncos and Newcastle Knights.