It’s been 24 years since Newcastle United were last at Wembley in a major cup final. That's a long, long wait for a Toon Army starved of success under Mike Ashley.
Baggy jeans and blue eyeshadow were among the fashion trends, Ricky Martin was Livin La Vida Loca, and - spoiler alert - Bruce Willis was actually dead in The Sixth Sense. What a time to be alive (or not, in Bruce’s case).
For Newcastle fans, they were almost spoilt. 1999 saw the third trip to the Twin Towers in four years, after the Charity Shield visit in 1996 and then an FA Cup Final in 1998. They were to return the following year, too, with a semi-final against Chelsea. All ended in defeat, but those four visits were memorable for seeing a swarm of black and white on Wembley Way as fans flocked to the famous old stadium.
