Newcastle United v Wolves, FA Cup 4th Round, 27th January 1979
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- Second half highlights of the FA Cup 4th Round match between Newcastle United and Wolves at St James' Park on 27th January 1979.
John Barnwell was appointed Wolves manager in November 1978 following a dismal run of 11 defeats in 14 matches that led to the dismissal of Sammy Chung. It was the beginning of a brief successful period for Wolves; the slide towards relegation from the First Division was ultimately reversed late in the season and, in addition, Wolves appeared in two FA Cup semi-finals during Barnwell's tenure (both defeats) and won the League Cup on 15th March 1980.
A prime reason for the alarming run of results at the start of the 1978-79 season was due to the absence of striker John Richards who underwent an operation on his right knee in October 1978. Prior to that, Richards had appeared just twice earlier in the season, but his return to the team brought instant rewards for John Barnwell with the winning goal away to Arsenal on 24th February 1979. There followed a further 8 goals in 16 games for Richards as Wolves finally pulled clear of relegation for good with a 2-1 win at Chelsea on 24th March 1979, with another all-important goal scored by Richards.
The Wolves line-up for the match against Newcastle had a familiar look to it with Kenny Hibbitt, Geoff Palmer, Derek Parkin, John McAlle, Willie Carr and Steve Daley - all players that figured prominently in Wolves teams from earlier in the decade. Added to that were more recent introductions; George Berry made his Wolves debut in the penultimate match of the 1976-77 season while Peter Daniel and goalkeeper Paul Bradshaw were signed by Sammy Chung. Daniel and Bradshaw, in particular, served Wolves admirably during their time at Wolves and were, along with Berry, key members of Barnwell's League Cup winning team.
Newcastle had been relegated from the First Division at the end of the 1977-78 season and were led by former Wolves manager Bill McGarry, who had been appointed Newcastle manager in November 1977 but had been unable to halt Newcastle's relegation to the Second Division. Other past and future Wolves connections were included in the Newcastle team for the match against Wolves; substitute Mark McGhee was manager at Molineux from December 1995 to November 1998, while centre-forward Peter Withe briefly played for McGarry at Wolves during the mid-1970s. Also present in the Newcastle team, in his second spell at the club, was midfielder Terry Hibbitt, but it was younger brother Kenny who earned a replay at Molineux with an equaliser just five minutes from time. In the Molineux replay almost a month later, Wolves striker Norman Bell scored the only goal of the game to set up a 5th Round tie at Crystal Palace.
Original footage from Yorkshire TV with commentary by Martin Tyler.
Willie Carr was vastly underated. Some of his 'touches' were truly sublime, and he had an extremely clever football brain. Should have been a regular for the Scotland national side.
Definitely. On his day, he was better than Messi.
Lot of competition in those days....
I went to this match, but I am sure the train to Newcastle was almost cancelled because of heavy snow. Maybe it was snowing in Newcastle, but on route to Newcastle.
Im sure Mick Martin ( Newcastle) played for the Baggies at some point classic volley from Kenny Hibbit 😊
Back in the days when few away fans ventured to the North East!
I was at this game as a 15 year old. I'm going to look again and try to spot myself in the crowd behind the goal when Hibbitt scores. The disappointment when Wolves scored was awful.
King Kenny! But ex-Wolves Peter Withe and future Wolves manager, Mark McGhee in the Newcastle side
Sudhir Menon , it was weird with Peter Withe , left Forest after league championship and missed out on European cups with them, then went to the Geordies ,won nothing and ended up at Villa and won the European cup and scored the winning goal !
Mark McGhee in his first stint at SJP. Was back a decade later with Micky Quinn making a belting double act.
Carved a fairly successful time at Pittodrie with Aberdeen in the middle of that
Bukta sportswear!❤
'Stunned silence' after the Wolves goal. Didn't Newcastle give them any tickets? Surely Wolves would take a larger away following to a Saturday FA cup tie at Newcastle.
During the winter of discontent attendances were down for economic and travel reasons
I was a student in Newcastle at that time and went to this game. The Wolves fans were packed into the corner at the Leazes End, you can see them at 0.29. I was on the Gallowgate end and can still see the Wolves fans going bananas when Kenny Hibbitt scored that goal. I wished I was amongst them and it inspired me to start going to see my own team (Everton) away from home. Celebrating goals away from home on a packed terrace was one of the great things about football in those days.