I know some Toon fans would argue he DIDN'T play in the top flight in England when he was at Newcastle ... but if you ask your grandad ... yes he did.
Certainly not when he joined us from Celtic in 1989, because we had just been relegated, but he had an earlier spell with us in 1977 when (as a young nipper) he signed from Morton and played 17 games in the old First Division.
Today he has hit out at the Scottish Premier League, saying it is in danger of sinking "to the level of the League of Ireland".
Mark McGhee: "The English Premier League is now a world-class league; it's no longer a British-class league.
"I'm not sure that I would, in my day, have got a game in the Premier League as it is today.
"I think we really have to compare ourselves with Championship clubs.
"As long as we keep eroding the financial side and they keep getting away from us, that is going to change again, and very soon we're going to be comparing it to the First Division (League One).
"And if it keeps going the way it is, we could eventually be comparing it to - no disrespect - the Irish league.
"I think that Scottish football, the SPL and the other clubs need the Old Firm.
"It's a nonsense to think that we'd be better off without them."