2006/7 NEWCASTLE 0 SHEFF UTD 1
NEWCASTLE: Harper, Carr, Moore, Bramble, Babayaro, Milner (Luque 66), Parker, Butt (Emre 46), N'Zogbia (Solano 46), Rossi, Duff.
Subs Not Used: Srnicek, Ramage.
SHEFF UTD: Kenny, Kozluk, Davis, Jagielka, Geary, Montgomery, Leigertwood, Alan Quinn (Law 90), Gillespie, Hulse, Webber (Kabba 72), Kabba (Kazim-Richards 88).
Subs Not Used: Bennett, Short.
Att: 50,188
Sheffield United striker Danny Webber piled the pressure on Newcastle boss Glenn Roeder as his header snatched three Barclays Premiership points at St James' Park.
Webber powered a 68th-minute Nick Montgomery cross past the helpless Steve Harper to hand the Blades their first away goal in the league and a first victory in four games and send the Magpies into 19th place in the league table.
It was scarcely more than the visitors deserved as they punished a woeful performance by Roeder's men, who have not won a league game on their own pitch since the opening day of the season.
Newcastle were second best throughout two days after their UEFA Cup heroics in Palermo and barely created a chance of any note as Charles N'Zogbia's mishit 30th-minute cross which hit the bar represented their best effort.
wThe crowd vented their anger on chairman Freddy Shepherd and his board as another three points were allowed to slip away, and boos once again resounded around St James' on the final whistle.
The Magpies head for Watford in the Carling Cup on Tuesday night in their third match inside six days, but both that competition and Europe are minor considerations when compared to their plight in the league.
The Magpies face a trip to Manchester City next weekend having taken just a single point from home clashes with Charlton and Sheffield United and knowing a vast improvement is required, and quickly.
Having won just one of their previous five Premiership games at St James' and none since the opening day of the season, there was only one requirement this time around no matter how it came.
However, the jeers which rang around the stadium at half-time told their own story as the euphoria of Thursday night's gutsy UEFA Cup victory dissipated in a cesspit of mediocrity.
Much of the credit for that had to go to Blades boss Neil Warnock, who sent out his team to harry and press and saw them do just that to leave the Magpies struggling to establish any kind of rhythm despite making six changes from their midweek side.
Even the normally ebullient Scott Parker found himself becalmed in a midfield battle in which, but for a brief spell when he and Nicky Butt got the better of Mikele Leigertwood and Montgomery, went largely the way of the visitors.
If the visitors' work-rate was impressive, they lacked the cutting edge to build upon in with Stephen Carr's interception of Webber's fourth-minute cross ahead of Alan Quinn and Rob Hulse's shot on the turn eight minutes later their only real half-chances.
But Newcastle, with Giuseppe Rossi and Damien Duff once again paired in attack, fared little better.
Titus Bramble headed a 10th-minute Duff corner well wide and Parker drilled a long-range effort into Paddy Kenny's midriff two minutes before the break.
And it was perhaps significant that the closest the home side came to breaking the deadlock was when N'Zogbia's 30th-minute cross sailed over Kenny and clipped the crossbar.
Roeder made his move at the break, withdrawing Butt and N'Zogbia, who both started in Sicily, and sending on Emre and Nolberto Solano with James Milner switching to the right.
Quinn sent a right-foot shot across the face of goal within three minutes of the restart with the visitors showing few signs of surrendering the point with which they arrived on Tyneside.
Indeed, they looked the more likely to score, Bramble coming to the rescue after Montgomery was presented with possession in the box after former Magpie Keith Gillespie recycled a 53rd-minute Derek Geary cross.
Quinn chanced his arm with an effort from distance seconds later, but Harper had to save from Webber's dipping 58th-minute shot and then saw Leigertwood hammer a left-foot drive over.
Roeder attempted to freshen things further with his final change when he sent of Thursday night's goal hero Albert Luque for Milner and begged him to pay a huge slice off his £9.5million transfer fee.
But within a minute, his hopes were ripped apart when Montgomery crossed from the right and Webber stooped to plant a firm header past Harper to put the Yorkshiremen in front.
Emre dragged a 74th-minute shot across the face of goal, but the home side's efforts to drag themselves back into the game were tepid to say the least.
Indeed, they might have lost even more heavily had Harper not managed to get a touch on Quinn's 86th-minute shot and then claim the rebound as the ball came back off the post.
The reaction when the final whistle sounded was entirely predictable and left Roeder and his players in little doubt as to how their efforts had been received.
NEWCASTLE v SHEFF UTD ... THE HISTORY
2009/2010 Mon 02 Nov Sheff. Utd. 0 - 1 Newcastle Utd. Championship
2006/2007 Sat 07 Apr Sheff. Utd. 1 - 2 Newcastle Utd. Premiership
Sat 04 Nov Newcastle Utd. 0 - 1 Sheff. Utd. Premiership
1999/2000 Sat 08 Jan Newcastle Utd. 4 - 1 Sheff. Utd. F.A. Cup
1997/1998 Sun 05 Apr Newcastle Utd. 1 - 0 Sheff. Utd. F.A. Cup
played at Old Trafford
1993/1994 Sat 30 Apr Sheff. Utd. 2 - 0 Newcastle Utd. Premiership
Wed 24 Nov Newcastle Utd. 4 - 0 Sheff. Utd. Premiership
1989/1990 Sat 24 Feb Sheff. Utd. 1 - 1 Newcastle Utd. Second Division
Sat 25 Nov Newcastle Utd. 2 - 0 Sheff. Utd. Second Division
1988/1989 Wed 12 Oct Newcastle Utd. 2 - 0 Sheff. Utd. League Cup
Sheffield United won 3-2 on aggregate
Tue 27 Sep Sheff. Utd. 3 - 0 Newcastle Utd. League Cup
1978/1979 Sat 14 Apr Newcastle Utd. 1 - 3 Sheff. Utd. Second Division
Tue 26 Dec Sheff. Utd. 1 - 0 Newcastle Utd. Second Division
1976/1977 Mon 24 Jan Newcastle Utd. 3 - 1 Sheff. Utd. F.A. Cup
Sat 08 Jan Sheff. Utd. 0 - 0 Newcastle Utd. F.A. Cup
1975/1976 Mon 19 Apr Sheff. Utd. 1 - 0 Newcastle Utd. First Division
Sat 27 Dec Newcastle Utd. 1 - 1 Sheff. Utd. First Division
1974/1975 Tue 27 Aug Sheff. Utd. 2 - 1 Newcastle Utd. First Division
Wed 21 Aug Newcastle Utd. 2 - 2 Sheff. Utd. First Division
1973/1974 Sat 29 Dec Newcastle Utd. 1 - 0 Sheff. Utd. First Division
Sat 08 Sep Sheff. Utd. 1 - 1 Newcastle Utd. First Division
1972/1973 Sat 30 Dec Newcastle Utd. 4 - 1 Sheff. Utd. First Division
Sat 19 Aug Sheff. Utd. 1 - 2 Newcastle Utd. First Division
1971/1972 Sat 01 Apr Sheff. Utd. 1 - 0 Newcastle Utd. First Division
Mon 27 Dec Newcastle Utd. 1 - 2 Sheff. Utd. First Division
1969/1970 Tue 02 Sep Sheff. Utd. 2 - 0 Newcastle Utd. League Cup
1967/1968 Sat 03 Feb Newcastle Utd. 1 - 0 Sheff. Utd. First Division
Sat 23 Sep Sheff. Utd. 2 - 1 Newcastle Utd. First Division
1966/1967 Wed 31 Aug Newcastle Utd. 1 - 0 Sheff. Utd. First Division
Tue 23 Aug Sheff. Utd. 0 - 1 Newcastle Utd. First Division
1965/1966 Sat 23 Apr Newcastle Utd. 0 - 2 Sheff. Utd. First Division
Sat 27 Nov Sheff. Utd. 3 - 2 Newcastle Utd. First Division
1961/1962 Wed 11 Oct Newcastle Utd. 0 - 2 Sheff. Utd. League Cup
Mon 02 Oct Sheff. Utd. 2 - 2 Newcastle Utd. League Cup
1960/1961 Sat 04 Mar Newcastle Utd. 1 - 3 Sheff. Utd. F.A. Cup
1955/1956 Sat 17 Dec Sheff. Utd. 2 - 1 Newcastle Utd. First Division
Sat 20 Aug Newcastle Utd. 4 - 2 Sheff. Utd. First Division
1954/1955 Sat 01 Jan Sheff. Utd. 6 - 2 Newcastle Utd. First Division
Sat 28 Aug Newcastle Utd. 1 - 2 Sheff. Utd. First Division
1953/1954 Sat 20 Mar Newcastle Utd. 4 - 1 Sheff. Utd. First Division
Sat 31 Oct Sheff. Utd. 3 - 1 Newcastle Utd. First Division
1948/1949 Sat 07 May Sheff. Utd. 0 - 0 Newcastle Utd. First Division
Sat 11 Dec Newcastle Utd. 3 - 2 Sheff. Utd. First Division
1946/1947 Sat 01 Mar Sheff. Utd. 0 - 2 Newcastle Utd. F.A. Cup
1938/1939 Sat 31 Dec Newcastle Utd. 0 - 0 Sheff. Utd. Second Division
Sat 03 Sep Sheff. Utd. 0 - 0 Newcastle Utd. Second Division
1937/1938 Sat 15 Jan Sheff. Utd. 4 - 0 Newcastle Utd. Second Division
Sat 04 Sep Newcastle Utd. 6 - 0 Sheff. Utd. Second Division
1936/1937 Sat 02 Jan Newcastle Utd. 4 - 0 Sheff. Utd. Second Division
Sat 05 Sep Sheff. Utd. 2 - 1 Newcastle Utd. Second Division
1935/1936 Sat 28 Mar Newcastle Utd. 3 - 0 Sheff. Utd. Second Division
Sat 23 Nov Sheff. Utd. 5 - 1 Newcastle Utd. Second Division
1934/1935 Sat 23 Mar Newcastle Utd. 4 - 1 Sheff. Utd. Second Division
Sat 10 Nov Sheff. Utd. 5 - 1 Newcastle Utd. Second Division
1933/1934 Sat 17 Mar Sheff. Utd. 4 - 0 Newcastle Utd. First Division
Sat 04 Nov Newcastle Utd. 3 - 1 Sheff. Utd. First Division
1932/1933 Sat 18 Feb Newcastle Utd. 2 - 0 Sheff. Utd. First Division
Sat 08 Oct Sheff. Utd. 3 - 1 Newcastle Utd. First Division
1931/1932 Sat 30 Apr Sheff. Utd. 0 - 3 Newcastle Utd. First Division
Sat 19 Dec Newcastle Utd. 5 - 3 Sheff. Utd. First Division
1930/1931 Sat 28 Feb Newcastle Utd. 1 - 0 Sheff. Utd. First Division
Sat 25 Oct Sheff. Utd. 3 - 1 Newcastle Utd. First Division
1929/1930 Sat 08 Feb Newcastle Utd. 3 - 5 Sheff. Utd. First Division
Sat 05 Oct Sheff. Utd. 1 - 0 Newcastle Utd. First Division
1928/1929 Sat 05 Jan Newcastle Utd. 4 - 2 Sheff. Utd. First Division
Sat 01 Sep Sheff. Utd. 3 - 1 Newcastle Utd. First Division
1927/1928 Mon 23 Apr Sheff. Utd. 1 - 1 Newcastle Utd. First Division
Sat 22 Oct Newcastle Utd. 1 - 0 Sheff. Utd. First Division
1926/1927 Sat 12 Feb Sheff. Utd. 2 - 1 Newcastle Utd. First Division
Sat 25 Sep Newcastle Utd. 2 - 0 Sheff. Utd. First Division
1925/1926 Sat 10 Apr Sheff. Utd. 4 - 3 Newcastle Utd. First Division
Wed 09 Dec Newcastle Utd. 3 - 1 Sheff. Utd. First Division
1924/1925 Mon 13 Apr Sheff. Utd. 1 - 2 Newcastle Utd. First Division
Thu 01 Jan Newcastle Utd. 0 - 0 Sheff. Utd. First Division
1923/1924 Sat 15 Sep Sheff. Utd. 2 - 1 Newcastle Utd. First Division
Sat 08 Sep Newcastle Utd. 2 - 2 Sheff. Utd. First Division
1922/1923 Sat 16 Sep Sheff. Utd. 2 - 0 Newcastle Utd. First Division
Sat 09 Sep Newcastle Utd. 3 - 0 Sheff. Utd. First Division
1921/1922 Sat 01 Oct Newcastle Utd. 2 - 1 Sheff. Utd. First Division
Sat 24 Sep Sheff. Utd. 1 - 1 Newcastle Utd. First Division
1920/1921 Sat 02 Oct Sheff. Utd. 0 - 3 Newcastle Utd. First Division
Sat 25 Sep Newcastle Utd. 3 - 0 Sheff. Utd. First Division
1919/1920 Sat 13 Dec Newcastle Utd. 2 - 1 Sheff. Utd. First Division
Sat 06 Dec Sheff. Utd. 2 - 1 Newcastle Utd. First Division
1914/1915 Sat 27 Feb Sheff. Utd. 1 - 0 Newcastle Utd. First Division
Sat 24 Oct Newcastle Utd. 4 - 3 Sheff. Utd. First Division
1913/1914 Sat 18 Apr Sheff. Utd. 2 - 0 Newcastle Utd. First Division
Sat 10 Jan Newcastle Utd. 0 - 5 Sheff. Utd. F.A. Cup
Sat 13 Dec Newcastle Utd. 2 - 1 Sheff. Utd. First Division
1912/1913 Mon 30 Dec Sheff. Utd. 1 - 1 Newcastle Utd. First Division
Wed 25 Dec Newcastle Utd. 1 - 2 Sheff. Utd. First Division
1911/1912 Mon 01 Jan Sheff. Utd. 2 - 1 Newcastle Utd. First Division
Tue 26 Dec Newcastle Utd. 2 - 2 Sheff. Utd. First Division
1910/1911 Mon 03 Apr Sheff. Utd. 0 - 0 Newcastle Utd. First Division
Sat 05 Nov Newcastle Utd. 1 - 1 Sheff. Utd. First Division
1909/1910 Sat 30 Apr Newcastle Utd. 0 - 0 Sheff. Utd. First Division
Sat 18 Dec Sheff. Utd. 4 - 0 Newcastle Utd. First Division
1908/1909 Sat 20 Mar Newcastle Utd. 4 - 0 Sheff. Utd. First Division
Sat 14 Nov Sheff. Utd. 1 - 1 Newcastle Utd. First Division
1907/1908 Wed 01 Jan Sheff. Utd. 1 - 1 Newcastle Utd. First Division
Thu 26 Dec Newcastle Utd. 2 - 3 Sheff. Utd. First Division
1906/1907 Sat 13 Apr Newcastle Utd. 0 - 0 Sheff. Utd. First Division
Sat 08 Dec Sheff. Utd. 0 - 0 Newcastle Utd. First Division
1905/1906 Wed 04 Apr Newcastle Utd. 2 - 1 Sheff. Utd. First Division
Sat 02 Dec Sheff. Utd. 2 - 0 Newcastle Utd. First Division
1904/1905 Sat 11 Feb Sheff. Utd. 1 - 3 Newcastle Utd. First Division
Sat 15 Oct Newcastle Utd. 1 - 1 Sheff. Utd. First Division
1903/1904 Fri 25 Dec Sheff. Utd. 2 - 2 Newcastle Utd. First Division
Sat 24 Oct Newcastle Utd. 0 - 1 Sheff. Utd. First Division
1902/1903 Sat 14 Mar Newcastle Utd. 0 - 0 Sheff. Utd. First Division
Sat 15 Nov Sheff. Utd. 2 - 1 Newcastle Utd. First Division
1901/1902 Sat 12 Apr Sheff. Utd. 1 - 0 Newcastle Utd. First Division
Thu 27 Feb Sheff. Utd. 2 - 1 Newcastle Utd. F.A. Cup
Sat 22 Feb Newcastle Utd. 1 - 1 Sheff. Utd. F.A. Cup
Sat 14 Dec Newcastle Utd. 1 - 1 Sheff. Utd. First Division
1900/1901 Sat 13 Apr Newcastle Utd. 3 - 0 Sheff. Utd. First Division
Sat 08 Dec Sheff. Utd. 2 - 0 Newcastle Utd. First Division
1899/1900 Mon 26 Mar Sheff. Utd. 3 - 1 Newcastle Utd. First Division
Sat 21 Oct Newcastle Utd. 0 - 0 Sheff. Utd. First Division
1898/1899 Sat 15 Oct Newcastle Utd. 1 - 2 Sheff. Utd. First Division
Mon 26 Sep Sheff. Utd. 2 - 2 Newcastle Utd. First Division
1893/1894 Sat 27 Jan Newcastle Utd. 2 - 0 Sheff. Utd. F.A. Cup