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Andrew Musgrove

Tommy Craig hoping Kieran Trippier can go one better than him and bring the cup home to Newcastle

As Newcastle United prepare for their first League Cup Final since 1976, Tommy Craig, the captain of the Magpies that day sits at home and flicks through an old scrapbook. There are photographs of the squad together in the dressing room and that famous overhead-kick from Dennis Tueart that secured Manchester City the victory.

In that picture of Tueart - a Geordie - in midair, Craig is standing just yards behind him as the striker acrobatically fires the ball home. Nearly 50 years later, people still ask him about it - and it's a goal that still haunts Craig.

"It's funny," he tells Chronicle Live, "My wife is one of those people," he laughs. "After the game, when we went back to the hotel, my wife's first question was 'why didn't you stick your head on it when they got the free-kick?'"

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