'Like two heavyweights throwing haymakers at each other'
[Getty Images] Thirty years on from Liverpool beating Newcastle 4-3 in one of the Premier League's greatest ever matches, former Reds player Jason McAteer, former Magpies defender Steve Howey, the Anfield Wrap's Ian Ryan and the Athletic's George Caulkin join Alistair Bruce-Ball on BBC Radio 5 Live's Football Daily to reflect on a true classic. "A game like that kind of takes a life of its own", recalled McAteer. "From the first whistle you could sense it wasn't going to be a normal game.
"Being a Liverpool fan and witnessing some of the great European nights at Anfield, it was like a European game. The noise under the lights - footballers will tell you they love playing on a Wednesday night coming into summer. It's brilliant.
"The game took a life of its own. I'm sure both managers were trying to get their tactical approach across at the time but nobody was listening because you didn't have a chance to listen. "It was just 100 miles an hour, it was brilliant.
" Both teams had led the game before, with the score level at 3-3, Stan Collymore thundered in a dramatic stoppage-time winner to spark the iconic image of Newcastle boss Kevin Keegan slumped over the advertising hoardings. "The game deserved a winner and it could have come from either team," McAteer added. "It was like two heavyweights just throwing haymakers at each other and just taking them.
"It was just whoever was going to be left standing at the final whistle and fortunately it was us. When Stan scored that winner such a rush of adrenaline came over me. I don't know where I found the energy but I ran straight across the pitch and just remember thinking 'we must have the day off tomorrow'!