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NUFC 1967/68 - Season Review


Div 110th
FA CupR3
League CupR2
Attendance37,239
ChairmanL Westwood
ManagerJ Harvey
CoachR Lewin
CaptainB Moncur
Top ScorerW Davies (12)

United made great strides particularly at home where they were unbeaten before losing their last two games. Their away form remained poor with only a single victory.

The Magpies reached 5th by mid-January and stayed there for a couple of months before a disappointing finish saw them slide down to 10th.

They fell at the first hurdle in both Cups: losing at home to Carlisle (FA Cup) and away to Fourth Division Lincoln (League Cup).

Despite the mid-table finish a series of fortunate events saw United qualify for the Fairs Cup.

Newcastle recorded a couple of excellent friendly victories over European Champions Celtic but the Glaswegian supporters who travelled to Newcastle caused lots of damage in the city-centre.

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Competitions


League Division 1


United became a much harder side to beat and lost 7 less games than in 1966/67. It was their home form which improved most markedly and they were unbeaten at St. James' before losing the last two games.

After a slow start United's form gradually began to improve and they gradually climbed the table. At the end of February, they were in 5th having lost only 2 of their last 17 games.

Unfortunately the goals dried up in the last 12 games and they hit a bad patch (won 1, drew 4, lost 7) which ended with them losing their last 5 games.


19/8 H Southampton W 3-0
23/8 A Chelsea D 1-1
26/8 A Liverpool L 0-6
30/8 H Chelsea W 5-1 6
02/9 H Stoke D 1-1 7
06/9 A Man City L 0-2 10
09/9 A Nottm F L 0-4 13
16/9 H Coventry W 3-2 13
23/9 A Sheff Utd L 1-2 13
30/9 H Arsenal W 2-1 13
07/10 A Wolves D 2-2 13
14/10 H Fulham W 2-1 10
25/10 A Leeds Utd L 0-2 11
28/10 H Everton W 1-0 11
04/11 A Leicester D 2-2 11
11/11 H WHU W 1-0 9
18/11 A Burnley L 0-2 12
25/11 H Sheff Wed W 4-0 9
02/12 A Tottenham D 1-1 8
09/12 H Man Utd D 2-2 8
16/12 A Southampton D 0-0 6
23/12 H Liverpool D 1-1 6 H
26/12 H Sunderland W 2-1 6
30/12 A Sunderland D 3-3 6
06/1 A Stoke L 1-2 7
13/1 H Nottm F D 0-0 6
20/1 A Coventry W 4-1 5
03/2 H Sheff Utd W 1-0 5
10/2 A Arsenal D 0- 0 5
24/2 H Wolves W 2-0 5
02/3 A Sheff Wed D 1-1 5
16/3 H Leeds Utd D 1-1 5
23/3 A Everton L 0-1 5
03/4 H Leicester D 0-0 6
06/4 A WHU L 0-5 7
12/4 H WBA D 2-2 7
13/4 H Burnley W 1-0 7
15/4 A WBA L 0-2 8
20/4 A Fulham L 0-2 9
27/4 H Tottenham L 1-3 10
04/5 A Man Utd L 0-6 10
11/5 H Man City L 3-4 10 H H
W D L F A Pts
01 Man City 26 6 10 86 43 58
02 Man Utd 24 8 10 89 55 56
03 Liverpool 22 11 9 71 40 55
04 Leeds 22 9 11 71 41 53
05 Everton 23 6 13 67 40 52
06 Chelsea 18 12 12 62 68 48
07 Tottenham 19 9 14 70 59 47
08 West Brom 17 12 13 75 62 46
09 Arsenal 17 10 15 60 56 44
10 Newcastle 13 15 14 54 67 41
11 Nottm Forest 14 11 17 52 64 39
12 West Ham 14 10 18 73 69 38
13 Leicester 13 12 17 64 69 38
14 Burnley 14 10 18 64 71 38
15 Sunderland 13 11 18 51 61 37
16 Southampton 13 11 18 66 83 37
17 Wolves 14 8 20 66 75 36
18 Stoke 14 7 21 50 73 35
19 Sheff Wed 11 12 19 51 63 34
20 Coventry 9 15 18 51 71 33
21 Sheff Utd 11 10 21 49 70 32
22 Fulham 10 7 25 56 98 27

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FA Cup


R3 27/1 H Carlisle Utd (D2 - 10th) L 0 - 1

R3 - Burton had his penalty saved as an uninspiring United slipped out of the Cup at the first hurdle.


League Cup


R2 13/9 A Lincoln (D4 - 4th) L 1 - 2

R2 - Another disgraceful Cup performance against lower league opponents and Lincoln coach Bert Loxley slammed United. “I was surprised how easy we overran Newcastle. They showed nothing and we paralysed them”.


Squad and Team



PlayerASG
Bennett, A 28 0 10
Burton, O 37 3 3
Clark, F 37 0
Craig, D 11 1
Davies, W 43 0 12
Elliott, D 42 0 3
Foggon, A 1 0
Guthrie, R 4 1
Hilley, D 9 0
Iley, J 39 1 4
Marshall, G 39 0
McFaul, I 5 0
McGrath, J 10 1
McNamee, J 32 0 2
Moncur, B 35 0
Noble, P 1 0
Robson, B 12 1 4
Robson, T 40 1 11
Ross, E 2 0
Scott, J 37 1 3
Sinclair, J 17 0 3
Winstanley, G 3 0

Total number of games: 44

Total number of players used: 23

Figure in brackets indicates number of players who played in that position/shirt in total.

01: (2) Marshall

02: (2) Burton

03: (3) Clark

04: (4) Elliott

05: (3) McNamee

06: (2) Moncur

07: (4) Scott > Sinclair

08: (5) Bennett > Scott

09: (2) Davies

10:(4) Hilley > lley

11: (2) Robson T


Player Moves


Toon In

Name Date From Fee
Ross Eric 8 / 1967 Glentoran £5,250
Scott Jim 8 / 1967 Hibernians £35,000
Foggon Alan 11 / 1967 Professional
Sinclair Jackie 12 / 1967 Leicester £67,500

E Ross

J Scott

J Sinclair


Toon Out

Name Date To Fee
Alderson Stuart 6 / 1967 York City
Dalton George 6 / 1967 Brighton
Thompson W 6 / 1967 Rotherham £25,000
Hilley Dave 12 / 1967 Nottm F £25,000
Noble Peter 1 / 1968 Swindon £8,000
Mcgrath John 2 / 1968 Southampton £30,000

D Hilley

J McGrath

B Thompson

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