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CRAIG HOPE: A flashback 70 years to Newcastle's FA Cup winning side led by Jackie Milburn, as the club's current crop of stars seek to emulate the legendary team and end the club's long wait for silverware in the Carabao Cup

Spot the difference. Newcastle United’s current stars may be the toast of Tyneside, but they have never drunk champagne as part of their victorious dressing-room pictures. Not yet, anyway.

The boys of 1952 did, and as our photograph from the old Wembley changing room shows, the bare-chested Jackie Milburn is leading the celebration with a glass of fizz following their 1-0 win over Arsenal in the FA Cup final. Chilean George Robledo headed the only goal late on, a moment drawn by a young John Lennon that appears on the cover of his 1974 album, Walls and Bridges.