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It is a fixture synonymous with the drama and entertainment of the Premier League, a match that once encapsulated everything that helped establish football’s most popular domestic competition.
Newcastle United versus Liverpool was not a rivalry as such – the two clubs had last been on a level footing way back in the 1970s – but it caught the zeitgeist of early era Premier League.
Liverpool, for so long the pre-eminent force in English and European club football, were in decline; a fading force, who had been overtaken by Manchester United and were in the formative years of a three decade-long wait to be champions of England once more.
Newcastle, by contrast, were on the rise. After being so long an irrelevance in the national football conversation, as they bounced between top and second tier, their promotion to the newly formed Premier League in 1993 captured the imagination of football’s new and expanding audiences.
