Newcastle United 4-3 Nottingham Forest - FA Cup Quarter-Final (Saturday 9th March 1974)

Newcastle United 4-3 Nottingham Forest - FA Cup Quarter-Final (Saturday 9th March 1974)
After Pat Howard was sent off and Forest went 3-1 up with a penalty, several hundred fans invaded from the Leazes End. Referee Gordon Kew took the players off for eight minutes, but when the game was restarted Newcastle came back to win 4-3 - reports suggested the linesman was too scared to flag Bobby Moncur’s winner offside. “The Newcastle supporters put us out of the Cup,” says Forest manager Allan Brown. Thirty-nine fans were charged, 23 hospitalised (two with frac­tured skulls) and 103 treated for minor injuries. The FA ruled that the game should be replayed at Goodison Park (“I half-expected a ridiculous solution and they came up with one,” said Malcolm Macdonald) and Newcastle won 1-0, again at Goodison, after a 0-0 draw. As a result of the trouble Newcastle were ordered to play all their 1975 Cup games away.
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