Kevin Keegan: "Newcastle fans are realistic. We are a long, long, long way from that.
"It doesn't give me pleasure to say it, but I say that because it is a fact.
"You can look at it and admire it, but you know it's not going to be there for us next season.
"I know it as manager and the fans know it, if they are honest.
"They might say, 'There might be a chance if they get bogged down with this...'.
"Yes, of course you can dream, but the reality check says that we are not going to be competing in games like that.
"This is our big game and our chance just to measure ourselves against them.
"It's a chance to test ourselves to see if we have progressed, or is it a false dawn? Have we rebuilt ourselves enough so we can play these teams?
"All those possibilities are there for us. We could spoil their party and stop them winning the championship.
"If we give them a good game, we will take something out of it; if they cause us a lot of problems, we will learn something from it.
"If we beat them, we can then maybe start to think that this squad is so much better than the league position suggests.
"We have got a lot of big name players here as well. They might have more than us, but we have got a few."