At first glance it’s just another brick in the wall - but this brick is evidence of one man’s passion for Newcastle United more than 100 years ago.
A picture of the brick from a flat in Seaton Delaval, Northumberland, which was built in 1905, has caused a stir after being posted by a local history group member. It has been inscribed by the brickmaker with the scoreline of Newcastle 1 Everton 0.
Newcastle had played Everton on January 16 in 1904, with centre forward Bill Appleyard scoring the only goal in the second half before a crowd of 15,000. United fans on social media have described the brick as “wonderful” and “brilliant”, “a great find” and the work of a “football-made Geordie brick maker who left his mark in the wet clay before it was fired.”
