He went straight into the Newcastle first team and had scored 1 goal in 5 League appearances by the end of the season.

Keegan offered him improved terms this week but, why he is not in the Newcastle first team remains a mystery.

The truth of course is in the pudding but even without figures any football fan would tell you this is a different Newcastle team defensively.

And that is in a Newcastle team that has struggled badly for form.

It proved impossible to keep the team going and the 2010/11 season was the last featuring a Newcastle team.

But the Newcastle team tested this hypothesis and found it wanting.

Although the event has been traditionally dominated by Durham, the Newcastle team were the overall winners for the first time in 2009.

Fox was an early member of the Newcastle teams known as "the Entertainers".

After leaving Western Suburbs he played out the rest of his career for a local Newcastle team in the early 1970s.

He did not feature in the Newcastle first team, but was named as a substitute on a number of occasions.