Anyone remember?

[Kathy 733]

Re Lee Clark. I''m curious. What did it say?

''after 74 appearances, his career on Wearside came to an end after he wore a derogatory T-shirt at the 1999 FA Cup final.''

[Iwan=legend 0]

Think it was one of those classy ''one fan wearing a Norwich shirt weeing on another fan wearing a binner one'', etc etc but obviously Newcastle/Sunderland shirts! How to make yourself popular!!!

[Grando 260]

Anyone else remember that we were linked with him the season we got relegated (when he was struggling to get in the Newcastle side)? Would''ve been a good signing as our midfield was looking distinctly ropey at that point.

Wonder if he can still play - he''d probably be better than most of our current central midfielders!

[ave- we8wba-gota-life 0]

yeah i remeber i think we were gona pay 1 million but newcastle wanted a little bit more

[Branston Pickle 3,652]

[quote user="Grando"]Anyone else remember that we were linked with him the season we got relegated (when he was struggling to get in the Newcastle side)? Would''ve been a good signing as our midfield was looking distinctly ropey at that point. Wonder if he can still play - he''d probably be better than most of our current central midfielders![/quote]

I certainly do remember about a strong rumour linking Clark with us in the mid-90s - part of the rumour was that the move was all but sorted but Chase refused to match his salary and he pulled out; no idea how true that was but perhaps we''ll find out one day now that he''s finally here, 10+ years later!

According to Wiki, the story about the 99 Cup Final was that he was photographed wearing a t-shirt with the words “Sad Mackem B******s” on it (but without the *s)….not particularly controversial for your average Newcastle fan, but he was a current Sunderland player which put a completely different slant on it, and he never played for them again.