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08 Nov 2009 11:23
Sunday November 8th, 200915:27 GMT
PUFC: 43,067 including 2,600 visiting fans. Before kickoff, a presentation was made on the pitch to Magpies physio Derek Wright, marking 25 years of service to the club. After the game Chris Hughton commented:"We have got a totally focused group of players who, from minute one, saw an opportunity for us to stay on top of the division, and very much took that opportunity. "We have got used to getting on with the job. There are things we can't affect, but I am very lucky that I have got a group of players who are focused on one thing, and that's on staying where we are at the right end of the table with the ultimate aim of getting promotion.
"We are focused enough and it certainly hasn't taken anything away from the victory."
"It was just what we wanted. We could have made it a little bit more comfortable, but I don't think you can complain too much about a 3-1 victory at home."
"He was certainly delighted with that. We were expecting the mask to come out, but he has probably put it away somewhere."
Peterborough boss Darren Ferguson said:You have seen the team that will win the league. The manner of losing the first two goals was awful. We left ourselves a mountain to climb. They are on a roll at the moment.
"Chris has done a good job and stabilised the whole club, so it was always going to be difficult for us."
Deepdale 8th November 1885 James Kirkcaldy born, Newcastle. (1904-07)
1929 Death of Albert Shepherd, 44. (1908-14)
1946 Roger Jones born, Upton, Hampshire. (1976-77)
1979 Aaron Hughes born, Magherafelt, Northern Ireland. (1997-2005)
Popular defender who came through the junior and reserve ranks at SJP to make a senior team debut away to Barcelona in the Champions League back in 1997. Full international honours first came his way in March 1998 and October 2009 saw him collect his 70th senior Northern Ireland cap. Looking set to become another of United's long serving Northern Irishmen - Iam McFaul, Alf McMichael and David Craig - Hughes was allowed to leave SJP by manager Graeme Souness at the end of the 2004/05 season. Signing for Aston Villa, he later moved on to Fulham in 2007 and remains a competent, consistent Premier League performer. We on the other hand have continued to spend large sums of defenders of varying talent and attitude (notably Boumsong and Moore) - without noticeable improvement.
1990 Matthew Grieve born, Ashington. (2005-present)
Reserve/Academy defender.1902 Liverpool (h) Division OneRoberts 8,000 Debut for Andrew Gardner at outside left. 1905 Blyth (a) 7-1Howie 3, Carr 2, Rutherford, Bolton 1,000
1913 Preston North End (h) 2-0Hall, G.Wilson 12,000
1919 Middlesbrough (a) 1-0Booth
1924 Burnley (h) 3-0Clark 2, Cowan 2,000
1930 Blackpool (a)
1941
Bradford Park Avenue (a) 0-0 1947 Nottingham Forest (h) 0-2 60,244
1952 Blackpool (a) 2-0 Brander, G.Robledo 30,000 Successful debut for Tom Mulgrew, who created both goals.
1958 Luton Town (h) 1-0 (1-0)White 53,488 1961 Middlesbrough (a) 3-4 McGuigan, Hughes, Woods 5,221
1969 Sunderland (h) 3-0 (1-0)Dyson(42,87), Davies(62) 56,317 
1972
West Bromwich Albion (h) 3-1 (4-3 on aggregate)
Texaco Cup Tudor, Gibb, Hibbitt
20,420
1975
Leeds United (a)
0-3 (0-2)McKenzie 2, Yorath
39,304 Well beaten at Elland Road, thanks to two goals from
Duncan McKenzie and one from Terry Yorath.
1980 Cambridge United (a)Shinton(53)Gibbins(16), Springs(60) 5,684 1986 Leicester City (a)(1-0)McDonald(pen) Smith 9,836 Debut for Paul Goddard. 1989 A 0-3 defeat for the Reserves in the Pontins League against Manchester United. 
1992 Swindon Town (h) 0-0 28,091 
1993
Oldham Athletic (a) 3-1 Cole(53,81), Beardsley(74)Jobson(35)
13,821 Richard Jobson opened the scoring for the home side
before United turned on the style and won their tag of
"The Entertainers". Three times on-loan
goalkeeper Lance Key looked totally bewildered as the ball
flashed past him.
1995
Blackburn Rovers (h) 1-0
Premier League Lee(13)
36,463 A collector's item, as Alan Shearer played against
United and didn't score.
1997
Coventry City (a)
Premier League Barnes(31), Lee(87)Dublin(4,82)
22,679 Shay Given must have been the only Irishman who didn't
know where Dublin was, as he put the ball down in his
area. Unfortunately big Dion was lurking behind him and
popped the ball in the net. A brave Barnes equaliser
looked to have been in vain when Dublin scored again, but
with time running out Robert Lee picked the ball up in
midfield and sent a 35 yard shot zooming into the goal to
save a point.
1998 Man United (a) 0-0 55,174 2001 Recreativo De Huelva (a) 0-3 FriendlyPavon(61), Pavon(77), Canterla(90)18,000United played a friendly out in Spain to open Huelva's new stadium. It ended up being little more than a stretching of the legs for the Reserves. More newsworthy was the sending home of messrs Bellamy, Cort, Dyer and Griffin from the team base in La Manga for missing a meal in honour of Sir John Hall. Once more the club and its PR department did its very best to shoot itself firmly in the foot with their subsequent stonewalling.
2004A goal four minutes from time by defender Steven Taylor gave Tommy Craig's side a 2-1 victory at Leyland against their Bolton counterparts.
2005Two more goals from in-form Michael Chopra couldn't prevent us slipping to a 4-3 defeat (quite literally) on a rain-sodden pitch at Billingham against the smoggie second string.NUFC.com match report2008Newcastle's Academy made it five wins in a row with a resounding 5-2 win over Huddersfield to stay top of their league. And among the goals again was Nile Ranger with another hat-trick with Michael McCrudden and Conor Newton also on target.
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