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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Sport
Damian Spellman

Contrasting 50-year paths lead Liverpool and Newcastle to Wembley reunion

Liverpool and Newcastle met in the 1974 FA Cup final at Wembley (PA) - (PA Archive)

Newcastle and Liverpool will meet in a major final for the first time in 51 years on Sunday having embarked upon very different trajectories since then.

On May 4, 1974, the teams went head to head in the shadow of the famous Twin Towers with the FA Cup at stake, and it was the Reds – inspired by Kevin Keegan, who would later establish himself as a hero on Tyneside too – who prevailed.

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