Totally Extra: Liverpool 4-3 Newcastle, 30 years on
The Totally Football Show with James Richardson
The Athletic
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🗓️ 4 April 2026
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Summary
Jimbo is joined by Duncan Alexander, Charlie Eccleshare and George Caulkin to open up the Totally Extra almanac to exactly 30 years ago, on the Liverpool 4-3 Newcastle page.
The Magpies were the great entertainers with the exuberant Kevin Keegan at the helm and much of the country pulling for them to take the title. Their title challengers Man Utd had famously been told by Alan Hansen they couldn't win anything with kids.
With Fergie's fledglings finding form, a wobbling Newcastle went to Anfield and vowed to play the only way they knew how, to attack; the likes of Beardsley, Ginola, Asprilla and Ferdinand up against Fowler, Collymore, Barnes and McManaman.
What ensued is still for many the greatest ever Premier League game. What made it so special? And how different might have football been if Newcastle had won it in 1996?
Plus what else happened this week in football history and a brain-teasing quiz question.
Produced by Charlie Jones, Lucy Oliva & Jesse Howard.
RUNNING ORDER:
• PART 1a: Why this game was so special (0.40)
• PART 1b: A 4-3 related quiz question (06.20)
• PART 2a: The Totally Extra Almanac (08.10)
• PART 2b: The Premiership in 1996 (11.10)
• PART 3: Liverpool 4-3 Newcastle (32.51)
• PART 4: The run in and the rant (55.01)
• PART 5a: What cost Toon the title? (1.03.00)
• PART 5b: This game's legacy (1.07.30)
• PART 5c: The answer to the quiz question (1.17.15)
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic FC. |
| 0:09.2 | Totally extra. |
| 0:11.0 | Today, pulling the purest pint of Carling Premiership with Liverpool 4, Newcastle 3, |
| 0:17.4 | the most hourly game ever. |
| 0:20.2 | Big billowing shirts, |
| 0:21.4 | entirely bananas defending, |
| 0:22.8 | but what actually happened that night? |
| 0:24.5 | What did it mean for the MacPie's |
| 0:26.1 | meme-tastic title bit? |
| 0:27.6 | And was this the game that made the premiership? |
| 0:30.4 | We relived the night when football went full, |
| 0:32.6 | Keith Flint, |
| 0:33.4 | in this totally extra. |
| 0:43.4 | Unbelievable. in this Totally Extra. So Totally Extra with you on Saturday the 5th of April or thereafter and joined today by Duncan Alexander. |
| 0:52.1 | Hello, Duncan. |
| 0:53.0 | Hello, James. |
| 0:54.1 | Charlie Echo Share. Hello, Charlie. Hello, James. Charlie Eccleshare. |
| 0:55.3 | Hello, Charlie. |
| 0:56.3 | Hello. |
| 0:57.2 | And George Corkin. |
| 0:59.0 | Hello, George. |
| 1:00.0 | Hello, indeed. |
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