It's going to get plenty of airtime this week but Newcastle United manager Kevin Keegan's famous rant back in 1996 could provide the Magpies with the launchpad to get one over our old title rivals Man U.
Let's be honest you'd take a draw if you were offered it right now, in fact you'd probably snap the hand off whoever was offering it!
We certainly can't turn back the clock - this is a different era with different players - and Newcastle are right up against it but if a packed St James's Park goes into the game as fired up as Kevin Keegan was that night 12 years ago, we've got to be in with a shout.
Man United will have played twice by the time the clash kicks off.
Nobody is kidding themselves ahead of Man U, it's all set up for them to rub salt into deep wounds.
But as the players have already commented on a couple of times between games, the home game with Arsenal, a 1-1 draw that United should have won, showed that the current crop of Newcastle players CAN do the business when they put their mind to it.
And a similar performance is a must on Saturday night.
Perhaps it won't be 5-0 but at a time when Man United need to win to stay in touch with Arsenal at the top and a time when we are just desperate to pick up some points, there must be a little bit of hope left in the Toon Army that miracles can happen.
The role of the crowd will be huge and as always they've backed the team to the limit this season with boos, whether they were justified or not, coming after the final whistle.
It would be easy to pour doom or gloom on the situation and predict a Man United win.
I don't know about you but scars still remain from 1996 here (Cantona mis-hit volley, 12 points clear etc etc) so all in all you will LOVE it if we are talking about anything other than a defeat come Saturday night!
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