The great days of football.

Keep an eye on Emlyn Hughes when Newcastle have a penalty. Making sure Keegan never strayed into the D, and not putting even one toe into the box until the kick. What a professional.

dear Newcastle United supporters congratulations for beeing again in premier league.thats very nice .wishes and all the best from a Greek friend

Supermac was my boyhood hero and a goalscoring machine. He had everything and gave us 5 great seasons in that famous number 9 shirt.

The day I was born, Dad was at the game, I proudly wear the shirt worn on the day at matches I can attend. SuperMac, what a player

The crowd clapped Emlyn Hughes goal, that is sportsmanship, can't see that now!

He always looked like a charging buffalo snorting at the nostrils & bristling sideboards & the black & white strip accentuated that with a barrel of a chest & his thick bandy but sturdy legs & banded socks looked like Newcastle armour. Dave McKay was very similar. Mac was made for Newcastle & he looked like a Geordie too. Only the Cup Final felled him & it was over time to move on. SuperMac!!

Supermac man. What an explosive centre forward. One of the all time great debuts.

My first game as a Newcastle fan.. Great!

That penalty by Supermac was unstoppable.

Am glad i watched this match. Becouse i had forgotten how good malcome mcdonald was. That was a brilliant hat trick he got and the way he put that penalty in the top corner 3 keepers wouldnt have saved it. He was so underated i believe. I saw him score 4 or 5 for newcastle round about this time when i was age just 9 and still remember thincking he is some player, the great MMcd. And that was in 1982 on 100 great sporting moments and his 5 goals were all brilliant. He made it look so easy!

Know that’s what you call a proper football crowd . Loved those days. Everyone standing. Pure passion. Those were the days my friend. Has the song goes.

I was there supporting Liverpool. Good old days.

Crikey, what a player Supermac was. That penalty was perfect and the second was brilliant, the way he slipped his marker and slammed the ball into the roof of the net. A shame that such a great player had to pack the game in early due to injury in 1978.

I was there great day

A real top class Forward . from the 70s when forwards were men and defenders were nervous .

Just started to watch Newcastle could've been a great team if they did not sell players ,supermac would be worth 100 million now

I can remember this match I Mcdonald was my hero .he couldn't do anything wrong for me. I remember Mcdonald when he played for England and scored 5 goals in one match .yes he was hot at the time . £180k he cost us from Luton . These days they want that a week .

What there that day was 16, what a debut and carried off

Love the stadium and the crowd.

#SuperMac what a debut ....

Thanks for posting, I was there, Supermac hat trick first game, hard to beat that

im a wigan fan but love watching supermac what a fakkin player he was wish we had him now' legend...

SuperMac, Superstar, how many goals have you scored so far

Supported Newcastle 47 year 11 year old got Newcastle kit for xmas not easy living in rough part boro grove hill took all the shit school etc little did I know all this time later and still won fuckall but I'm no glory hunter but wen supermac said they were going to win the cup 74 I believed him outclassed terry Mac Kennedy if only kept them I honestly think I'm gunna snuff it before we win out and that goes for England too but we still support them second to none the fans anyway bollocks to silverware giv us a canny bag of John Tudor seeing supermacs debut still get shivers down the old spine that do for now Gaz may boro

I remember watching this game on TV at the time but had always remembered it a being on BBC Match of The Day.

We'd just moved to a new part of Leech's Kirkhill development in Morpeth in 1970, I was 9 years old at the time of this game and we spotted our new neighbour Supermac who lived on Turners Way during his time at the Toon, great to see how the ground was so different back then, my dad always took me in the Leazes stand.

IM A LIVERPOOL fan and can remember this game as a 10 year old kid there was no full commentary on the radio back in those days they'd play music on the radio and go over to the commentary at the ground every 10 minutes or so to check up wot was happening at the ground I was gutted because we got beat really decent to hear the Newcastle fans clapping are first goal 👏 IM A RED UNTIL AM DEAD YNWA

Supermac is still my favourite centre forward from my lifetime. Next would be Les Ferdinand.

Of the major football stadiums in England none has changed more than St James Park.

Pure Roy of the rovers super Mac. not even Shearer could eclipse.

I was at that match and Emlyn Hughes fell on me lol trying save ball from throw in

Super side-burns on SuperMac.

What a player magic

No mention of Clemence wiping Mac out and putting him out of the game.

£180,000 for Supermac in 1971 wonder how much that would be in today's money?

supermac said to the kids who ran on the pitch after his third, "get off I've got time for another goal"

Que imagem lindas

Just 6 months later a bunch of part timers from Hereford came up, drew 2-2 and beat Newcastle 2-1 in a replay, including the goal os the season by Ronnie radford,Rest in Peace Ronnie, for ever a hero in the city of Hereford

a great fantastic liverpool fc team which i used to admire, the way for the glory started a year later 1972-73 and a victim of lfc was and my team aek athens uefa cup 1972-73.great liverpool fc on 70s until end of 80s, i wish all the best for liverpool fc

Wish we had Macdonald noo !!!

I was there.

Fantastic goal by Crazy Horse, then Mighty Mouse concedes a penalty (and says “ah come ON, ref! No way...”) But it lets Supermac get on the scoresheet on his debut

The quality of play looks pretty good. But I wouldn’t want to be in that crowd. They’re really packing them in!

Love the home crowd applauding Hughes stunning opener. Wouldnt happen these days

Such a pity his career ended relatively early through injury

I was at the game debut game hat trick SUPERMAC instant hero

Liverpool. 1. Clemence. 2. Lawler. 3. Lindsay. 4. Smith. 5. Lloyd. 6. Hughes. 7. Keegan. 8. Thompson. 9. Heighway. 10. Toshack 11. Callaghan.

Another era. Crowd so close to the pitch. People almost sitting on the sidelines. Kids casually running on the pitch to congratulate the players. Hard to imagine, but the whole football hooligan thing actually started about or a little after this time

I went to see Man U at St James in 1971 when Bestie scored the winner near the end. It later transpired an assassin had threatened to shoot him and he said he covered more miles in that game than any other.

steve at tottenham power league just told me about mcdonald so i came to have a butchers. impressive

What a great park. 4:00 Now that's a bad comb-over. Sir Malcom McDonald slightly concussed - 😂 slightly?

VAR would also have had trouble determining the validity of Liverpools 2nd goal.

Ray Clemence left one on SuperMac at the end. That was dirty. He'd be banned for months if he did that today

I might be a few years younger than I wish I am now but I really wish I was older and had witnessed the 70's not just for football, but music, fashion and pre Political Correctness and multi culturism....I.e. immigration and the carefree lives that people lived. I wish I was 30 years older....sadly and nearly in me box whereas now when I work 6 days a week and just struggle to survive whilst people from third world countries are given priorities and 5 star hotels

@ 1.54. " HELPED to the ground " !?! That's one way of putting it I suppose . Surprised Wenger never thought of it.!

Show this to the current team,(toon)

For what reason was Toshacks goal disallowed ?

Watched this on match of the day in those days we got 2 matches can name all the players can't name more than one Newcastle player now have they won a trophy since 1969 should be atop 6 team with the crowd need some tough old Geordie boys in the team Shearer get your arse back into football instead of talking about it

Who is the commontator on this game would like to know please

Does anyone know the name of this excellent match commentator? Never heard him before.

Mad to think my dad would have been here pissed out his skull

Look at those stands or lack of.

1971. Long hair and sideburns at its best!

I'd give anything to go back to those days. When the Leazes End was in full cry and not today's St.James's Park with all of the fannies in the Gallowgate End. They don't even know the words to some of the songs. Fannies.

1971?

3 54 wtf why was that disallowed

Keegan’s Liverpool debut?

Not many players get hat tricks against Liverpool.

Doesn’t seem to me many away fans at it

Iam McFaull! Who are you?

Poor kick and took the centre forward out. Now it would be a straight red

71/72. 30p to get in at Spurs (Adult) 15p for me. 5p for a programmes not the advert packed crap "matchday magazine" full of garbage that no one reads nowadays. 46p return to Harlow on the train and half price for me and a mans game on the pitch.

The time when you could spell and pronounce all the players names 🤣🤣🤣

There was big difference between Liverpool 1971 and Ajax 1971. It's not same level. Mc Donald was good scorer. Why wasn 't he consistently tenured (like gerd muller for germany) in national team ?

Clemence pretending he's injured. Pathetic.

None stop agro going back to the station Godder liverpool boot boy

No diversity...fans on the pitch...no problem...wasn't life good back then.