[ JACKIE MILBURN | JOE HARVEY | BOBBY MONCUR | MALCOLM MacDONALD ]
[ KEVIN KEEGAN | PETER BEARDSLEY ]


PETER ANDREW BEARDSLEY
There's only one PETER

"Peter is simply the best, better than all the rest"
Kevin Keegan

To many modern generation Newcastle fans, Peter Beardsley is recognized as the best and most consistent player to have pulled on the Magpie shirt.

Although Peter spent a many of his most productive years playing with Liverpool and Everton, he never lost the old passion for his local club. Beardsley is a brilliant little player who, operating just behind the front strikers, has proved devastating at both creating and scoring goals, netting over 100 goals for Newcastle and almost 250 in his entire career.

With lovely skills and the vision of a master playmaker, Beardsley has the enthusiasm to work and run for 90 minutes and, above all, the knack of striking absolute gems that find the net - time and time again.

Peter was in fact on United's books three times: as a teenager, he was released by Bill McGarry and picked up by Carlisle where he made a name for himself in the rough and tumble of Division Three football.

After creating a big impression in North America (While he was playing for Vancouver Whitecaps) and spendding five months with Manchester United, Peter headed back to St. James' Park to become Kevin Keegan's partner as the Magpies won promotion with splendour during 1984.

He quickly matured and became a regular in the Englandd set-up before transferring to Liverpool in search of trophies during July 1987. The fee was a record £1.9 millions. That money helped to build the Jackie Milburn stand, and that's a rightful tribute to another legendary United player, but there are still Newcastle fans who call it the Peter Beardsley stand.

Championship and cup medals came his way at Anfield before he moved to Stanley Park to join Everton in 1991, becoming a firm favourite with the crowd. In a surprise move, Newcastle boss Kevin Keegan brought Peter back to Tyneside at 32 years-old in July 1993, for £1.5 millions.

"Take it from me, if ever a man put his club first and himself second when he signed for me it was Peter Beardsley. Everybody in football has the utmost respect for him and I'm right at the top of those who respect him most."

It was money well spent, as his experience and guile made a huge impact on Newcastle's rise as a Premiership force. Beardsley enjoyed a new lease of life and just missed out on skippering the Magpies to the title, before he moved to Bolton in August 1997.

[ JACKIE MILBURN | JOE HARVEY | BOBBY MONCUR | MALCOLM MacDONALD ]
[ KEVIN KEEGAN | PETER BEARDSLEY ]