BROTHERS Matty and Sean Longstaff ran the show in Newcastle’s 1-0 win over Manchester United. The pair were everywhere as the Toon held on for a famous victory over the Red Devils as Steve Bruce’s side got a much-needed three points. But the siblings aren’t the first brothers to run out for the club at […]
BROTHERS Matty and Sean Longstaff ran the show in Newcastle’s 1-0 win over Manchester United.
The pair were everywhere as the Toon held on for a famous victory over the Red Devils as Steve Bruce’s side got a much-needed three points.
But the siblings aren’t the first brothers to run out for the club at St James’ Park.
Here’s nine others that have played for the North-East giants through the years.
In fairness, it’s amazing Newcastle paid £6m for Siem De Jong after Luuk’s disastrous spell at the club.
Luuk was first on the scene at St James’ Park when he was signed on loan in January 2014 to solve the Toon’s goalscoring crisis from Borussia Mönchengladbach.
However, in his 12 games for the club, he failed to hit the back of the net and returned back to January.
Siem was signed by Alan Pardew as a replacement for the departing Yohan Cabaye, and he immediately named him vice-captain in the summer of 2014.
Injury wrecked his time there though, he was first ruled out with a thigh strain for several weeks, then sidelined for a further eight weeks with a collapsed lung.
The final nail in the coffin for his Newcastle career came the following season when a freak accident saw one of his contact lenses pushed into his eye, threatening his sight.
Until the Ameobi brothers (more on them later), the Chileans were the only brothers to be on the same pitch as each other for Newcastle – a feet that’s been repeated by the Longstaffs.
In 1952, the Robledos helped the Geordies win the FA Cup beating Arsenal and they became the first brothers to appear in a final – with Jorge netting the winner.
Ironically, Newcastle didn’t want to buy Jorge initially – and were after Eduardo, who was playing for Barnsley.
But when Eduardo, nicknamed Ted, didn’t want to move without his brother, Newcastle were forced to buy the pair in a combined £26,000 deal.
Eduardo also holds the honour of being the first foreign First Division top goalscorer. He netted 33 times during the 1951-52 season.
Ron Guthrie started his career at Newcastle, before he went on to become a Sunderland hero – playing in the successful 1973 FA Cup-winning team and scoring his only goal for the club on their run to Wembley.
Chris, who was ten years younger, signed for Newcastle in 1971 – when Ron was in his final years at the club.
He made three appearances for Newcastle, without scoring, before making his name at Swindon and Southend.
After he retired, Ron joined up with former Newcastle team-mate David Craig on a milk round business.
Sunderland-born Alan joined the club in 1972, effectively ending Ron Guthrie’s career at Newcastle.
He became a legend, playing 158 times in the league and scoring nine goals before he joined Liverpool.
But he only had a Texaco Cup-winning medal to his name, having lost an FA Cup final in 1974 and a League Cup final two years later.
Brother Keith, also a left-back, played just once for the Magpies, then moved to Bury where he played 405 times.
Peter Withe was the more famous of the Withe brothers to play for Newcastle.
And just like Alan kennedy, he was also another who scored a winning goal in a European Cup final – later with Aston Villa.
He scored 25 times in 78 games for Newcastle between 1978-80, until Villa paid £500,000 to sign him.
Chris had little impact with the Magpies, where he started as an apprentice the year Peter departed St James’ Park.
After three years and two appearances, he went to Bradford City.
Steven would eventually leave Newcastle in 2004, in a career that included four loan spells away at Blackpool, Bradford (twice) and Leeds.
He only made 28 appearances, scoring one goal in the league against Middlesbrough and two in a cup game against Bradford between 1997-2004.
When he was released, he signed for bitter rivals Sunderland.
Gary didn’t play once for the club, but ended up becoming a Scotland international, as well as a star for Celtic and Wigan.
He later won the SFWA Footballer of the Year title in 2009.
The McClen twins are possibly the least notable of all the brothers to be attached to Newcastle, although only one of them played for the club.
Steven was on schoolboy terms, but failed to earn a full-time contract and make the breakthrough into the first team.
While Jamie was given a long-term contract by Ruud Gullit, after impressing the Dutch coach.
In 2001-02, he helped the club finish fourth in the Premier League, but then drifted away from the first team and signed for Carlisle.
Initially, there was a lot of confusion whether or not Lomana and his lightning-quick brother Kazenga were actually siblings.
Reports suggested cousins, uncle and even nephew before Lomana confirmed Kazenga was indeed his younger brother.
Lomana became somewhat of a cult player for the Magpies, famous for his trademark somersault goal celebration between 2000-04, before moving to Portsmouth.
Winger Kazenga currently plays for Luton Town, but made 15 appearances for Newcastle between 2007-11.
The pair are believed to have cousins in the game too – in Yannick Bolasie and Tresor Kandol.
There have been three Ameobis on Newcastle’s books.
Forward Shola was the most successful, having played 311 league games and scoring 53 goals before moving to Turkey with Gaziantep BB.
Sammy joined Newcastle’s academy in 2008, and made a total of 70 appearances, scoring four goals, and often playing with Shola.
The lesser known of the three – Tomi – failed to make the grade at Newcastle.
He was released without signing a professional contract, ended up trying his luck at Leeds where he struggled.
However, he made a name for himself in Canada and is currently in his second spell at Edmonton FC.
