I Luv It! I Really Luv It! Who knows that we will be this important to the other team premierhips title hope and a win against Chelsea would be open champagnes at Old Trafford and a deserve thank you letter personally from Sir Alex Fergusson for the Toon lads and Kevin Keegan.

In contrast to what happened around 12 years ago when we were the side who is in the title race with Sir Alex side, last night, Sir Alex backed his old ‘enemy’ Kevin Keegan to upset Avram Grant’s Chelsea side and help him to win the title this year.

“The way Chelsea have been talking, it’s as if it’s going to be easy up there. We know from our experience it won’t be that way,” Ferguson said. “I know Newcastle will do their job honestly in the same way West Ham did. You take Dean Ashton - he was a United fan as a kid - but he scored a goal that could have killed our hopes.”

The truth is, we have nothing to fight for actually in our last two matches this season. We are already securing our place in Premier League next season. But, in my opinion, it’s just a great bonus if we can win our last two games against the team that wears Blue shirt, especially Chelsea.

For tomorrow’s game, Chelsea midfielder John Obi Mikel or Claude Makelele will have difficult job to mark our skipper. If they do that there are certainly more big problems for their side as they will required another extra players to cover the other areas from Mark Viduka and Oba Martins.

This game will also be a great chance to test our three-pronged attackers against a team with solid defensive cohesion like Chelsea. Keegan’s diamond formation has never been tested against any of the top four side, so Chelsea could be one of them to taste the defeat against United’s transformations.

Jorge Robledo single goal took United to be the first team in modern football to retain the FA Cup after Blackburn Rovers did 60 years before. Newcastle won the FA Cup two years in succession after a win against Arsenal in Wembley.

In the year that Arsenal had been one of the main runners in the Championship chase that season but only settle for third in the end. We had comparatively disappointing season and finished eighth despite scoring more than any other team with 98 goals.

Before the final match, both teams met at Highbury where a weakened Newcastle side satisfied with a 1-1 draw. Earlier in the season we had beaten them 2-0 at home.

United’s best performers in the final game were coming from our back line where Harvey, Cowell, Brennan and McMichael did well to create the wall to held the opposite players to come any near or creating chances.

On the other half the herculean efforts from Arsenal players also did well to guard United’s most feared strikeforce, Jackie Milburn, before Chilean-born Jorge Robledo score the only goal. United captain Joe Harvey receive the Cup from Winston Churchill.

Newcastle United road to Wembley 1951-1952
Round 3 vs Aston Villa 4-2
Round 4 vs Tottenham Hotspur 3-0
Round 5 vs Swansea Town 1-0
Quarter-Final vs Portsmouth 4-2
Semi-Final vs Blackburn Rovers 0-0, 2-1

Final Wembley, 3 May 1952
NEWCASTLE UNITED (0) 1 - ARSENAL (0) 0

Newcastle United :
Simpson - Cowell, McMichael, Harvey, Brennan, Eduardo Robledo, Walker, Foulkes, Milburn, Jorge Robledo, Mitchell.

Arsenal :
Swindin - Barnes, Smith, Forbes, Daniel, Mercer, Cox, Logie, Holton, Lishman, Roper.

Referee : A. Ellis.
Att: 100,000

First of all, I’d like to congratulates them for going to the final of Champions league for the very first time. It was a good game to watch and they clearly deserve to win the semi-final.

But, for the next Monday night fixture at St. James’s Park, we will give them another hard game. Our last home game this season against the Blues would be another test for Toon revivals under Kevin Keegan. A win would help lay solid foundations for a successful campaign next season.

Chelsea’s visit to St James’s Park on Monday will bring their own battle to wrest the Premier League title from Manchester United’s grasp, while our last match against Everton on the final day of the campaign, is also have a special atmosphere as the home team is in the race for the Uefa Cup spot.

For us, we may not have anything to fight for after securing the premierships status weeks ago, but I’m more than happy to see us doing great and ruin the other team hope. We will not giving them any favour because Keegan is still promising a grandstand finish and end this season without defeat.

“We want to go to Everton on the final day and finish the season on a high for the players to go away on holiday, for the staff because they need a boost and for the owner and mainly the fans,” Keegan said. “But what has really come home to me since I came back into the league is that the Premier League is the most fantastic league in the world for lots of different reasons.”

Former Toon hero Robert Lee told the Chronicle that Chelsea will be an interesting test for Newcastle now. Their visit is a chance to see how far we’ve come in the last few months. We have been pretty bad against Manchester United, Liverpool and Arsenal, but against Chelsea we have give them good game and only lose with a controversial decision.

This is our last chance to face another of the top four this season, and with our significant improvement in our last seven matches, this is a must game to show what we can do against any of the top teams when we are in the good shape.

Keegan might not watching live football after being exiled from the game for three years, and last to manage Manchester City in 2005. His lacked of detailed knowledge of the opposing teams have only cost him a slow revival time for Toon before putting together a sequence of seven matches with possible to end the season without defeat.

Now that we are securing our premierships status and it’s time to concentrate on rebuilding the team for next season. Admitted to have losing out to land Croatian midfielder Luka Modric to the on-high spirited Spurs, Keegan now focusing his sight on the former employee at City, Richard Dunne.

Dunne is another player who Keegan knows very well and Newcastle are hoping that the managerial upheaval at Manchester City will assist the pursuit of the 28-year-old Republic of Ireland centre half. City will be looking for around £5 million (€6.3 million) cash in for the player who has one year left on his current contract.

Former United player Steve Howey said Keegan will make no mistake trying to sign Dunne. Howey rated him as a top player and a great defender. According to his view, he’s the kind of player Newcastle need if we are going to challenge the top four again.

“This fellow is the best. I have played alongside some of the greatest modern-day central defenders in the likes of Tony Adams, Neil Ruddock and Gareth Southgate – and Richard Dunne is up there with the best of them. That’s how highly I rate him.” Howey said in the ChronicleLive.

Fortunate Newcastle United avoided the frist defeat in Keegan’s last seven matches at the hands of West Ham, in a day where we were once again the poor side for the first 40 minutes.

The home side had an early goal from Mark Noble before Dean Ashton added their second in the midway of first-half. But, the relieving Toon gaffer would have to thanks his African squad members after Martins and Geremi get us back in action in the last 2 minutes of first-half.

I also consider we’re the lucky side too when Uriah Rennie refused to award a penalty for the home team when the ball hit Michael Owen on the hand.

“I would sooner be a lucky manager than a good one,” Keegan said. “For me, Alex Ferguson is a very lucky manager, but unfortunately not today.”

It looks like Keegan will have to think any other possible options for our next fixture at home against Chelsea. To be honest, starting from our last week game against the mackems, we have been less impressive if not bad performance. Yesterday, Harper’s distribution was so bad, and forced Keegan to had Fraser Forster warming up after 25 minutes.

The 33 years-old stopper, although not being superior in distributions, have a decent save when he deny Ashton’s rasping shot 10 minutes from the end, while a last-ditch save by Green from Martins ends the second-half with no further goals from both team.

“I have never handled a player quite like Martins,” Keegan said after the match when asked his opinion about Martins, “He does fantastic things and he is more of a team player now.”

A draw means we have lost a great chance to climb up above Spurs after they also only have a draw against the bottom rock team Bolton Wanderers.

West Ham United:
Robert Green, John Pantsil, George McCartney, Lucas Neill (c), James Tomkins, Julien Faubert, Mark Noble, Scott Parker, Bobby Zamora, Dean Ashton
Subs: Nobby Solano, James Walker, Carlton Cole, Hayden Mullins, Luis Boa Morte

Newcastle United FC:
Steve Harper, Habib Beye, Jose Enrique, David Edgar, Steven Taylor, Nicky Butt, Geremi, Joey Barton, Oba Martins, Michael Owen (c), Mark Viduka
Subs: Fraser Forster, Damien Duff, Lamine Diatta, Alan Smith, Andy Carroll

Referee: Uriah Rennie
Attendance: 34, 980